Yesterday, we stopped at around 5 hours of work. That was enough - for both of us. I had to leave early anyway and none too soon, as far as I was concerned.
That doggy park ......
There are roots growing up out of the ground from the trees that used to be there - all over the place. There are thorn vines growing - all over the place. Pull them with hands, dig with shovel, try to cut with shovel and when all else fails, get out the chainsaw and cut that stuff out of the ground. It's just that there's so much of it. I can't have dogs running around getting cuts and potentially tripping and getting hurt.
Dogs are usually very agile but I just couldn't leave it like that. Not a good look. The point? I was totally exhausted and my legs were hurting again from all the up and down all over the place. Not to mention installing signs, tightening up fencing, cutting down tree limbs elsewhere and generally getting stuff done.
Marc was none to slow to agree with me that it was time to quit. He was also pretty well worn out. He has a trip to Dallas on Tuesday, then down to Houston and then over to Galveston, he doesn't want to be so worn out that he can't enjoy himself. He's hauling some cardboard out to the property today - I still have huge burn piles and they will likely be there when the park opens. Not everything is going to be taken care of, I just want the RV park portion done right or as right as possible anyway.
I'm going out today to install the mailbox. I might redo the fire pit. I don't like the way it turned out and want to redo it. Marc made it into a big rectangle, but I think I just want a plain old round pit like everyone else has. I can use the work he did in digging down a bit, I'll just have to dig out to the sides a bit more. I'm looking for about 48 inch diameter.
I'm taking the weekend off after that. I have had enough and it's going to start raining today and supposedly through tomorrow anyways. I need a rest. As I have stated repeatedly, but it keeps creeping into my mind, this is probably not the best time of year to be opening an RV park anyways.
Regardless, when the Google pass code arrives, I will enter that, get my site showing again, get the gravel dumped and open the park. The gravel for the old driveway that is. I am limiting it to areas that absolutely must have it - which is about 500 feet worth of alongside the RV park itself. 5 loads will be around $2,700. Scaling it down from what I was going to do, in other words. Much of the driveway alongside the RV park is just dirt, the gravel has been ground down so long it's nothing but fine powder, but in this area, it's not even there anymore.
Haircut day. Inconsequential things a day of the life in...lol. Boys as well. I usually take them to get haircuts when I go - get the mailbox in, look at the bricks, look at them again, leave lmao. No, I might stay and at least dig out the rest of the hole. I just don't think a rectangular fire pit looks - normal. I have 2 picnic tables built, the firepit won't take maybe a couple of hours to form it and then I'll have to use special glue to hold the bricks together. There is some more cleanup and there is a field full of weeds and the driveway. Put down more seed in the doggy park - I did some yesterday but I have 2 more 50 pound bags.
We are, in other words, getting this almost done. A lot of the grass seed came up, not all of it but I think at this point? Yeah. I can put down more seed, of course, but waiting on that any longer isn't going to happen. So, more grass seed and there is cleanup on the lots to do. I'd say 4 hours of cleanup on the lots. I just need some decent help to get past the finish line. I can do it myself, of course, it will just take longer.
If I can find some decent help - and yes I have been looking for people - I could probably have all or most of this done by the end of next week. Go live on the campground reservation system and get her rolling. If there is no or little customers to start with, that's not really going to shake me up too much considering the time of year it is.
G'day
