Good ole' Mama Nature.  She knew I had to go rent a machine to backfill the trench.

So what does she done did do?  Rains on everything, of course.  I woke up early today expecting to get up and get out of here.  The next thing I know, I'm hearing the pitter-patter of water falling on my window AC unit. I have no idea what it looks like over there. I'm just sitting here pondering my next move.  

Well, as it stands, I have someone coming in for an overnight stay tomorrow for lot 11. If worse comes to worse, I will give today's visitors lot 11 and tomorrow's visitors. 

I may have little choice.  I will be going over there in a bit, the rain has stopped and I'm giving time for any accumulated water in the trench to sink into the clay.  If it's mostly gone, I will get that machine anyway and get with it.  

Well that's a little bit ridiculous. $335 for 4 hours of the bobcat or $385 for 24 hours?  I just called over there to make sure they have something available. For $50 more? I'm getting the thing for 24 hours.  And I"m waiting a couple of hours to get it. Actually, I'm going to the property first to see if this is even going to be doable today.  The rain has stopped but there are oftentimes vast differences between the amount of rain we get at the house and the amount the property gets.  It's weird.  

I really can't afford this machine.  I have little choice. It would take me a couple of days to backfill that manually and I am already worn out from 2 days of working in that trench.  In fact, I was pretty irritable yesterday after I got home and wasn't feeling all that great.  I feel much better this morning, thankfully.

It's a lot of dirt to do by hand. Too much for me and guaranteed hiring people to help me do it will be almost fruitless.  People want the money, they don't want to work. Covid really messed this nation up in that regard and I wonder if anything will ever return to pre-Covid mentality?  Probably not Not with the media blaring "news" of - well I'm not going into it here. I'm not biased - well I guess I'll take that back.

I am biblically biased, if that makes sense, towards certain things going on in our society that the media and elites are attempting to normalize.  They have weaponized certain terms, phrases and words so that if you speak out against them from a moral standpoint, they label you, come after you, cancel you and dispose of you.  It's an Orwellian world of a relative few people dictating to the rest of society how we should think and act.  If someone gets into my face about that stuff, they are going to get a dose back at them. 

But I mostly find internet arguing useless and many of the people that start the trouble are just trolling, trying to get a reaction.  I did that for years in that political debate group. Thankful to be done with all of that. I am in a small group of people where I occasionally post something that is going on, post my opinion and see what happens.  Not that often, rest assured and definitely not consuming the time it used to. I have a business to create, run, get automated and then quite likely, go back to trucking.  

I have money coming in but my personal funds are starting to run out.  Speaking of money coming in, the second recurring monthly lot payment is due from a person and I haven't heard from him. He will be hearing from me shortly: Do I have your permission to run  your credit card?  Some people have given permission in advance, but when it comes to something like that? I want approval.  No one will be able to say I took money without their permission.  

Well that was quick: Yes sir go ahead. Indeed I will, lol.  And done. Next payments - several of them due on the 1st. Even with a $500 electric bill, I will start pulling ahead on the business account quite a bit now.  I'm thinking I need a load of gravel over there today - nothing I can afford but nothing I can afford not to do.  I will try to get the riverrock from the back, first, but if that doesn't work, I have little choice. It's just muddy water on a 40 - 50 foot swath of driveway that just is ugly and gets people's vehicles dirty.  

Still 3 more days until that pull through motorcoach gets out of there.  It's the only one available for short term right now and I'm sort of regretting that. I think I could get more overnight business with 2 of them available and get rid of one of the back in short terms.  The next pull through out of there - which is probably going to be that rail worker - I'm going to go ahead and keep that one open as well as lot 5 pull through and see what happens. Maybe nothing, but there are several upcoming reservations for lot 5 so far.  I may not get as much interest in long term now that I've raised the price back up to $475 a month.  It's just that electric bills are going to eat my finances alive without doing something to mitigate it.  Meters are around $300 a piece.

Yes, that's just the meter.  So near 4 grand to outfit the entire park with them - out of the question.  

Well, it's getting near 8:00 am and the rain stopped about 45 minutes ago. I'm going to go over and see what the damage is. 

I pray the Lord's blessing that I can still get that trench backfilled today!

G'day