Since none of those people read this blog - I don't tell a lot of people about this for a variety of reasons I won't go into here - Taylor saw my light on in my bedroom this morning, early, and asked if I was awake? Yes, I replied texting, I woke up coughing.  Which is exactly what happened and what set off the coughing was the fact that the heat wasn't on in the house and cold air was affecting my lungs what with already having respiratory issues going on with allergies.

A person at the birthday party yesterday pointed at one of the trucks in the driveway and said - that's why, right there. I looked, the truck was covered in yellow pollen.  Oh, yes.  It's that time of year and all of that stuff come from pine trees, he said.  I haven't really had allergies since I moved here, that's a rather disappointing turn of events for allergies can and usually do make me feel like I've got a bad chest cold.  I hope this pollen goes away soon and we don't have to suffer forever, I'm definitely not the only person around that is coughing and sniffling all over the place.  

Anyway, she sent me a pic. It was a pregnancy test and yes, it said "pregnant" right on the screen!  Finally, after all of this time she's been trying (surrogate mom thing going on here) she is pregnant and we can get this next chapter of our lives going.  They - the intended couple to receive this baby pretty much immediately after he/she is born - don't know yet, she's going to surprise one of them at his work today after she gets off of her work duties.  He is a bartender and he is going to be shocked and I do wonder how he is going to look, I want to be there for that, even perhaps get a video of it for memory's sake for them. 

I think they have been trying this for 6 or so months now.  Nothing with a doctor, just some home style kit they bought.

Anyway....for some reason the campground software isn't opening up today.  It's just going on a repeating thing saying "initializing".  Fortunately, the only thing I have going in there right now is to close out the 2 day stay - I didn't do that yesterday because they hadn't left yet.  It appeared the man was packing up to go, but I wasn't sticking around for that, it was the youngest' birthday and we needed to go home. I mostly only stopped there yesterday, after church, to get the trash containers out front.  I figure it's Monday morning and maybe a lot of people are trying to connect with the software?  

No matter, if a new reservation comes in, a notice goes to my gmail inbox. I'll just try again later.

I decided to just get out of bed after laying there for a while.  It's like, well, it's early but who cares, get up and get the day going.  I have plenty to do today but it will probably be cut short to go over to the guy's workplace (it's totally fine, we are regulars at Chili's and we also know the GM pretty well, she lives 5 houses down the street and around the corner).  So I'm doing my normal thing sitting here drinking coffee, thinking about the day, deciding what to do first. Which is, take a fresh set of clothing with me because it is highly likely I'm going to get very dirty crawling around in the wet soil - not quite muddy but definitely moist - attempting to connect the pipe and get it into the shed and get this thing going.  I want to get it into the shed - both the laundry drain and the water inlet - today before more rain comes and stops me from making any progress.  

There is a chance of rain going on this week that isn't particularly high, but it's rainy season and the last rain filled both of those trenches up full with rainwater.  I don't need any more of that with those pipes, let's get this thing rolling.  I have all the parts - I think anyway - to get that stuff done and also to plumb the entire inside of the shed - at least for the washer/dryer setup.  Not so much for the bathroom assembly of which I won't even start on until I get the laundromat up and running first.  One thing at a time.  

I now have a Republic Services account online - dumpster/trash company.  They haven't scheduled a dumpster drop off date yet.  That's okay, I have no idea where I want to put the ugly thing.  It has to be at the park, people won't want to walk too far to dump their trash.  So, it's inevitable that having the ugly thing sitting right there? I'm going to have to build a privacy fence/gate around it to mask it.  

Yeah, that isn't happening in the next several weeks.  This is a matter of necessity here, not one of desire.  Too much trash, that's it.  

I found a riding mower and I need to go pick it up.  It's a 40 minute drive.  I've been looking for a while, this is the best thing that has come along.  It's amazing the junk people try to sell at ridiculous prices.  "it smokes badly" listing the price at $500.  It's worthless.  A new engine will cost at least that much.  Another "it needs a new belt, blades, battery and has a flat tire", listing it at $350.  Worthless, look how much money you'll spend getting it going again!  Again and again, people have these old, non-running mowers that need all kinds of work.

I don't even want one of those for free. I don't need another project on my hands. I did offer to take an antique looking trailer off a person's hands for free. They weren't selling it for much, it has a lot of potential.  It's very old but the exterior is in great shape.  I was thinking a glamping setup - but it would cost thousands of dollars to reinvent the interior of the thing, the pics show it's gutted as it stands.  I could park the thing well in the back out of sight until I am ready to do something with it.  

They didn't even respond to my offer lol.  I tried.  Not a priority, but when I see such things it's obvious they just want to get rid of it.  

Oops, today marks the day another tenant needs to pay up. I give them time to contact me - like a day or so.  The only ones so far that have done that is the older couple - who forgot to pay for several days. I thought they were waiting on their SS checks, turns out they had the money they simply forgot about it lol.   The 3 oil field workers are paid for by an outside company and the lady that runs that company is quite efficient and very friendly.  

Money out- money out - money out- this will stop soon enough and money will be coming in and an actual budget can be made.  I think Republic is the last monthly, recurring bill I have left to bombard my business account with. The laundry payments started a few days ago - that is going out of my personal account and will have that switched over. It's a business expense and will affect the monthly income statement for tax purposes.  

Well, my first cuppa is gone and I want to get out of here and get this day started and get some stuff done.  

G'day