Nothing of great report.

The dumpster is ordered - no indication when it will be delivered but they feel it necessary to charge over $200 to deliver it.  That's a bit ridiculous, but what choice do I have? At this point? None.  It's a dumpster or it's nothing.  The only other dumpster service available is a roll-off service - those are not household waste trash containers, those are more on the construction materials side of things.  

With that, yesterday, another reservation came in for - yesterday and today.  So, not feeling particularly great from having sleepless nights, I decided to go over to the property rather late-ish - both parties said they were coming in late.  Well, the overnighters were there, the people that had just made the reservation an hour earlier? No sign of them. 

The guy in the overnight stay said everything is fine - except - let me show you this. He proceeds to exit his trailer, walk around back and point at the ground underneath the trailer. 

There was a pile of toilet paper mixed with pee and poop on the ground from the previous people. It was absolutely disgusting and unfathomable how anyone could leave a site in that condition.  I have half a mind to charge those people $25 for the cleanup.  I can't - I am tempted to put that in my rules.  It was just absolutely ridiculous.  There is a shovel at the shed - it's outside and plainly visible. Any accidents like that - any decent person should clean up immediately and chuck it in the trash can.  

Well, I apologized profusely, somewhat embarrassed as well considering I had checked the lots earlier that day and did not see that stuff laying there....it kind of gets me thinking that someone pulled through the park, pulled onto an empty lot, dumped their waste and left.  I just have a hard time imagining that the people who were there would do such a thing? They are the folks that wanted to move from lot 2 - a pull through - to lot 14 - the back-in by the dog park.  I am going to flat ask them tho.  Maybe not totally confrontational, but I will ask them if they know anything about the mess that was left over there?  

I shoveled up all of that mess plus gravel and dirt underneath it and put the whole mess into one of the trash containers and then brought some fresh gravel over and dumped on top, smoothing it out, apologized to the people once again and left the park.  If those other people show up? Well, I hope it wasn't too late. People are sleeping fairly early to get up early in the morning for work. Some of those people are up at 2, 3 and 4 am.  I've been there, done that, you have to try and go to sleep at 8 or even later.  

It just makes the case yet again for a video surveillance system and I absolutely intend on having one inside of the shed with a sign out front that indicates that yes, this place is being watched. I'd like to have one aimed down both driveways as well.  Yup, I might as well order the system, it's a done--deal in my mind.  I can't be over there 24-7 and I don't want to have to be.  If I could afford to have a camp host, I would. The older couple are already acting in such a role and I don't wonder if I shouldn't at least give them $100 off per month for their assistance? Can't really afford to, but then again, can I afford not to? It's a question I'll be mulling over in my mind today.  

Keto - I went down to 214 and then back up all over the place as high as 219.  I figured this would happen but now, it's coming steadily back down and sitting right at 215.0 this morning.  My goal is 200 pounds or less before doing any kind of cheat day.  Or not.  Cheating really sets me back - like weeks really.  I'm not sure it's worth it, excepting the cravings for rice, beans, potatoes and pasta come creeping in eventually and I find I must just have an eating spree to get it out of my system. But, then I regret the aftermath...

I finally got some sleep.  It started in the middle of the night - a wave just overcame me and I didn't wake up until around 7:30 - went right back to sleep and finally got up just before 10:00 am.  I don't wonder if I should have just stayed in bed longer - everyone else is.  But it just seems weird to be in bed at that late an hour of day. Yet, I needed that sleep, very much needed that sleep.  

I've got a tent camper coming in sometime today and those people that reserved the lot for 2 days? Go see if they're over there, take a bag of trash out of there and hope it lasts today and tomorrow. If it doesn't, people will just dump the bags of trash on the ground next to the cans.  I don't blame them, I just will have to deal with it.  Our trash cans at home - 1 is empty the other only half full.  I'll use them if I have to. 

I do hope the tent camper contacts me - they will have no idea where to go if they don't.  You likely wouldn't just happen along the tent camp sight.  It's in the trees and in the back of the property.  I mean, if they want to camp in the dirt lot behind the shed, have at it, but that's not my idea of camping and likely not theirs, either.  I think the area I have set aside for tent camping is pretty nice, actually. It's in a stand of pine trees and there is grass growing there. Not grass that I ever planted, it's just naturally growing there, apparently.  A vehicle can drive to within about 75 feet of the camp site.  It's the only tent campsite I can have at the moment, the others are a project for the future.  

There is basically no way to have people camping in the forest in the rear of the property without giving them the ability to drive their camping equipment in there.  I mean, they could, I guess, use a wagon to haul stuff back there, but does anyone really want to?  I don't really think so.  My hundreds of tent camping outings in earlier days have me parking right next to where I was pitching a tent.  Those were not official camping sites, tho, it was just government land where anyone can tent wherever they please for the most part.  

I will have to go out there during a heavy downpour and find out where the "river" of water is coming from that is washing away the gravel and divert it somehow before I can fix that situation.  That is a distant goal for now.  It will cost money that I don't have to spend right now.  So, it's a someday goal that isn't really of all that great importance.  

Other than that? I'm done here.  Get out there and get some stuff done. Hope the pipe is not covered in water...

G'day