Tuesday - morning.

After watching numerous videos of various installation techniques last night, I feel more confident about what I am going to be doing.  However, going over the list this morning? I need more information from the shed itself before going on a buying spree. There are no large ticket items I will be getting, the only thing like that left is the shower stall, toilet and oven.  I'm not buying any of that right now. I am going to continue to search for a cheaper version of a shower stall until I find one.  If I am forced into buying a $400 thing, then so beit. That's probably not that bad considering the price of everything else.  I just don't want to spend that much money on anything right now.  

I just got a notice that I'm "almost all out of data" according to Verizon.  I have this final month of them left and I haven't switched everyone over.  I will correct that about the time I am out of data, it will be removed from the park and sent back to Verizon or taken back to the store.  If I need another T-Mobile unit to better cover everything, so beit. That's still only $100 per month for 2 of them with unlimited data versus 1 at $175 per month with limited data.

Back to the drawing board, I don't know what size pipe the water heater needs. The washer instructions say 3/4 fittings "only" (meaning no 1/2 inch such as the videos I watched suggested) so one would assume that one would use 3/4 inch pipe as well.

However....I haven't opened the water heater box yet nor have I read it's instructions. The only logical thing to do before spending money on items that I may have to return (Lowe's is good about that, anything I end up not needing I simply return with no questions), is put up the water heater shed and put the water heater in there.  And probably will need a sheet of plywood for a floor and a pan for the water heater.  Tho, I'm not really concerned about a water heater that rusts through and starts leaking - it will be outdoors. 

So, I have to go over and put at least one of those sheds together today.  Both of them preferably.  But the one for the heater for sure.  Then I can figure out A: how much wire I will need to run to the breaker box and B: what size and what length of pipe to run to the water heater and then back out of it to the washer and dryer assembly. Yes, the dry takes water for a steam setting it has to eliminate wrinkles, I guess.  

I won't know any of that until I remove the water heater from it's box and I don't want to do that until it's ready to go inside the shed.  Get it in there in it's permanent resting home and out of the way.  There isn't any point to wasting yet another trip to Lowe's until I know what I will need for that setup as well. I'm kind of tired of making endless trips to Lowe's....let's try to get most of it done in one, fell swoop. 

I will also have to cut holes in the shed for cold water in, hot water out - definitely not doing that until I know exactly where I want them cut.  I may end up having to put the water heater in the shed, figuring out everything and then removing it temporarily to get it out of the way.  I say "may", it's more like "will have to". It isn't terribly heavy when it's empty, thankfully. It's supposed to rain tomorrow and Thursday, I don't want it sitting in the rain, thanks. 

I'm a bit tired again today. Another night where I was awake for several hours in the middle of the night. I really hate having sleep issues.  If I remember, regardless of how well/bad I sleep tonight, I am getting up early and going to the church prayer meeting. It starts at 7:00 am - which means getting up at 6:00 am to shower and have morning coffee.  I am trying to get back into the idea of not just going through life randomly, but having a purpose that is according to God's will. 

Right now? I have no idea what the Lord wants me to do.  I say that a bit sheepishly, I got into this business dramatics and really didn't seek Him about it like I should have.  I need His blessing upon this whole venture. Before I call the banker about an appraisal and potential loan, I'm definitely praying about it first.  Should I even be considering a giant loan? Will it turn out to be profitable?  What should I do next?  My goad was to have this as my retirement income.  But was it God's will for me?  

A little late in the day to be asking that question now that I'm fully entrenched in this matter. Whatever is next, I want to be led by the Lord, not by my mind or my wants/needs/desires.  God is perfectly capable of taking care of all of my needs "according to His riches in glory", as the Bible clearly states.  I've been in dire need of food or basic necessities and I've seen the providing hand of the Lord. Some of it was quite amazing.  Tales from the past...won't go into that right now. I will just say that once you are making good money? It's real easy to get your focus off of the Lord - it's kind of a snare/trap.  Well, it can be anyway.  There is nothing wrong with having some amount of wealth, as long as it doesn't divert your attention and heart from the Lord. 

"The LOVE of money is the root of all evil". Worldly people who don't know the Bible always try to tell Christians "money is the root of all evil". That isn't what the bible says. It says, again: "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil".  If money were evil, we would all be going to hell.  You can have wealth - and you can give it away.  Why not keep it? You can keep it - but you can also help people with it.  That's the heart of the Lord: giving.  And...giving without expecting anything in return. And also...giving without pomp and circumstance. Don't give for recognition and accolades from friends, family or the general public.  Give because you have the heart of the Lord to give.

I'll get off the soapbox - I was talking to myself with that anyway. I tend to remind myself of what God says about how we're to live our lives and compare it to how I am currently living it.  I'll just say this: poor people I have met, especially in Mexico, are some of the happiest people on earth.  They don't care about what's going to happen to their money because they don't have much to begin with.  They aren't laden with the "cares of this life" that wealth can and usually does bring.  

Now then.  I have hardly been watching the news in the last week or so.  I've been busy.  Between the property, home - such as cooking dinner or being with family - or sitting here in my room trying to comprehend how to do whatever next or going to stores, I just haven't been paying that much attention.  I look at the news app here and there.  I'm finding it to be - wonderful.  I don't have to escape politics altogether, but my engagement in discussing it is next to nothing now.  I still do a bit, but not much.  I just know that the "conspiracy theories" about the Wuhan lab are now being admitted to not being conspiracies after all.  That the real reason - which many of my like-minded advocates already knew - was to derail Trump's campaign to win the presidency.  

It was an anti-Trump move by the media to laugh and say no, there was no conspiracy! People believed it, of course.  

Anyway, I am going to have another cup of coffee and get over to the property and start the process of putting together the shed.  

Editing: I'm not sure if I posted this yesterday, I don't think I did. But there is a lady that reserved a tent spot on Roverpass - which is another campground platform online and one that I am set up with.  I only have one tent spot working right now and it's only been used once.  I'm going to put a fire ring back there before her arrival next month, I think it was on the 3rd and also getting another trash can for back there. I had one back there already, but Mark decided to use it for picking up leaves when he was working with me and then I just kept it up there for general trash.  I really need one back there as well.  Anyway, I will get everything set up for her and hope that she enjoys it. She is bringing a border Collie with her as well.  

G'day.