Thursday. Morning.

Rained half the night, expected but it will be muddy in the area I am trying to work in over there.  The shed is finished excepting getting a piece of plywood for the flooring - I think we have some here at the house.  It took me around 3-1/2 hours to finish that shed yesterday.  I got over there and carefully examined the thing - once again - trying to figure out what I had done wrong in the assembly of it.

I hadn't done anything wrong, it turns out.  I always, carefully, follow instructions on things like this because if you get one little thing wrong, it usually affects the entire setup. What was actually wrong?

There are 3 piece of angle iron that come with the kit.  When you look at the various pics they have to show you how to assemble everything, the angle is facing outwards.  There are multiple pics with it showing these pieces all facing outwards, yes I had my glasses on! lmao

Well, I started thinking, if those were turned nwards, I wonder if the holes would line up? So, I took one off - lots of screws of course holding it in there, turned it around and put a couple of screws in to hold it in place. Walaah. The instructions were wrong..  I ended up turning all 3 around and after that, the assembly worked perfectly and yes, I will take the time to contact the manufacturer and tell them that their instruction booklet is wrong and will lead people far astray. 

That roof will simply not go on there with those 3 pieces assembled the way the instructions show it.  I will be interested to see if the other identical shed will also have the same, faulted instructions in it? One would assume so.

As I stated previously, this whole project seems to be easy enough from the surface.  But complications invariably arise and usually take up way too much time for the imposition provided from whatever that complication may be.  I suspect there will be more.  

Anyway, today I can cut a piece of plywood, get it over there, level off the area, put the plywood down, bring the shed and put it on top of it,  screw it onto the wood and then hopefully, put the water heater in there and get busy with the tasks of putting the rest of this stuff together.  I'm simply going to drill a hole in the side of the shed, get some flexible conduit and run it to the breaker box.  I don't need to worry about the shed moving from wind or something, a 40 gallon heater will hold that thing down quite nicely.

BUT, just in case, I want the flexible stuff.  Actually, I probably should plumb it first.  It will probably need moved around to do that and I don't need to be disconnecting wiring that I just installed.....and yes, I have the wiring, more than I needed for it.  I didn't know how far it would be and I wanted extra, as stated above, for flexibility.  

Even after paying $700 for gravel and other expenditures, my business account is moving up, ,not down.  Yesterday was $1,700 and change worth of deposits.  The next few weeks, there will be more.  I intend on paying myself after I get everyone's rent and get the electric bill paid up - it's $500.  If you think that is high, wait until it shows around $1,700 for one month.  That will be a typical summertime bill if not higher.  Around 3 grand more receipts to be collected and then I'm going to take around 2 grand out of it.  That will keep me floating for a while longer.  Yes, it will be reported, it will show it as a paycheck to myself on quickbooks and a note in the checking account.  I'm not trying to evade the tax man here.  That's a really bad idea....

And I will pay the accountant whatever fee out of the business account as well. Plus, I have quite a bit of money coming in this month beyond the lot rents in terms of people staying for several nights at a time. The campground software only collects the first night's stay, the rest is collected when they show up. I simply go in the system and prompt it to charge the card for the rest of it.  

Which reminds me. HipCamp wants me to post a pic of the tent camping site before they will show it as an option.  They want a pic of each individual site to go with each lot listed.  And this one needs a pic, definitely. It's in the woods and it's a nice area.  Actually a couple of pics.  I put a fire ring there and some firewood for the incoming guest tomorrow. Looks like the rain will be gone by then - but - the severity factor for today has been raised from 1 to 4 - it's a 1-5 scale. Now they are predicting severe storms and tornadoes are "likely".  Wonderful!  We always just love those forecasts!  Gag. 

I'm not in a hurry to go over there today. Not with this weather.  I'm going to go, yes, just not a big hurry. I need to cut that piece of plywood out back before I leave here.  I actually can go over and start installing the electrical boxes if nothing else. I keep saying that - yes - and I keep finding myself bogged down with other stuff.  It's okay, tho. I continue to add outlets.  If I'm going to wire up surveillance cameras, where are they going to get their power from?  An outlet that wouldn't exist, of course, if I hadn't thought about it now.  2 of those indoors and I want an outdoor outlet that I can lock up next to the shed.  That's for my use - only.  That shed is actually going to be loaded up with outlets now that I have thought of everything - or I hope everything anyway.  

2 outlets near the ceiling, an outlet up high were the AC is going to go, an outlet for washing machine, 2 outlets for dryers (future use if needed, an extra one), an oven outlet, a 110 outlet near the oven, an outdoor outlet,  2 switches and wiring to the ceiling for lights, a hidden outlet in case I change my mind about having one in the bathroom. Is that all of it? I feel like I'm forgetting something. There's the outdoor stuff for Hipcampers but I wasn't including that or the hookup for the water heater - that's direct wired from the heater to the box/circuit breaker. 

I guess the day isn't getting any younger, it's that tornado watch with threat level 4 that is sort of making me wonder if I really want to go over there, lol.  I'm in a "hurry" to get this done, but not that much of a hurry.  I don't live in an RV and I can stay in the house if a tornado pops up.  We have had them in the area recently, but none here in town or even right outside of town -where my park is.  One could continue to pray in that direction - please Lord, keep us all safe! Thank you Jesus!

Yes, there will be a "major" trip to Lowe's coming up here, but I want to figure out most everything I need and get rid of these endless trip over there.  It's about 6 or 7 miles each way - just wasting gas.  My vehicle isn't exactly a fuel economical SUV. In fact, it's what these climate change people are targeting in letting out the air in the tires in major cities.  You come out to go to work - your tires are flat.  They allegedly don't damage the tire by puncturing it with something, they "just" let the air out.  These people don't think too much, apparently, about the potential consequences of their actions. Certainly in Texas, where homeowners tend to shoot intruders first and then ask questions later - and mostly get away with it. 

In fact, there's a lot going on in the news now that I watched a bit of it yesterday, that is interesting. Good riddance to mayor Lightfoot!  She is blaming her black skin color for the loss in the primary.  No, ma'am, your incompetence is what go you fired. But these people always have to pull out the race card. They can't possibly admit that they were ineffective leaders.  Democrats in that city primarried her out of the democrat side and of course republicans also got rid of her.  Now there is a democrat who is allegedly a "defund the police" idiot and a Republican running.  

These people apparently haven't quite figured out that defunding the police isn't the answer. Get rid of the police and see a huge uptick in crime.  Get rid of cash bail - same effect. It's these woke people - there aren't really that many of them compared to the rest of the populace - that are given huge platforms by stupid media types to broadcast their delusions to everyone. You are to agree with them without any objections.  The pinnacle of totalitarianism, if they could get rid of the Constitution and gun owners, we would be just another CCP, NK, Cuba, etc.  I feel alot of these people are being controlled by foreign entities - a lot of it being the Chinese Communist Party.  They're buying up our farms, land, businesses, etc.  And we are just letting them do it.  

I am resolved that at some point, this nation is either going to go full Commie or there is going to be a huge civil war and who knows what will happen. In my view, unless God intervenes, it is inevitable.  Biden is again declaring a ban to "assault weapons" "come hell or high water".  I'm afraid you are definitely in for hell if you think you are going to be attempting to take away tens of millions of legally purchased and owned guns from citizens.  The declaration always begs the question: WHO, exactly, is going to come get them?  

I won't go into that again, it just sits there as a roadblock to their intentions. Even if they could get such laws passed or somehow make it an EO, they still have the formidable task of forcing Americans to give up their guns.  

Well, the rain has stopped, actually, even tho the radar shows the entire region covered with rain and severe storms, I'm going over to the property and see if I can get anything done over there. Well, cut that wood first, but you know, try to get something done.

G'day.