Thursday - morning - early.

We spent 10 hours over there yesterday working on that shed.  You would think we would be close to done with the drywall and you would be thinking wrong.  Progress, yes, finished? Nowhere near.  I hooked the trailer up to the SUV yesterday evening before we left, we did, indeed, use up all of the drywall I had there but we need at least 12 more sheet.  And a 6X2X16 stick of wood to run down the center at the top of the ceiling. This to be able to drop the lights lower and get the drywall up behind it.  

This is necessary. One of the big advantages of getting this drywall up will be the savings in electricity.  That window AC unit will be able to keep it cool in there without the compressor having to run all day long.  Yes, I have insulation in there but that works hand in hand with drywall which also creates a buffer to keep the heat out, cool in.  This is definitely going to be a "the money spent is the money saved" type of situation here. My electric bills are quite high and likely to get higher.  I don't need to be adding undue amounts of usage to that bill with that shed.  

I am trying to find a solar company to set up a solar array on a frame.  They can definitely do it, I just haven't found one with customer service reps that even understand what I'm talking about.  We get plenty of sun during the summer, a solar array would bring my electric bills way down. The flip side is that there are payments on the solar array itself, of course.  Still, it's a priority right now.  I will continue to contact these places until I find someone will actually understand what it is I am trying to do.

Meanwhile, the 5th wheel fell through. I may have written about that yesterday? I don't really remember, there's been a lot of work going on. Basically, I had a hauler ready to go. Not, wait until such and such time, I had the person ready to take off for the trailer. This was clearly communicated with the seller. The seller had agreed the previous day to sell it to me.  So what does he do? Sells it to someone else. I think I won't even contact the hauler until I actually buy a unit and have the title in hand first. The hauler is quite flexible. Otherwise, I may just stick to bumper pull units so I can just haul the thing back myself. Just the fact is, 5th wheels offer much more room than bumper pull units.  

I have my eye on a 30 footer right now and offered the man the full asking price 23 minutes after he posted it. He agreed to sell it to me, but you wait and watch. I didn't even say I was 65 miles away, I just said I can come tomorrow morning. He said no, how about Friday.  I said, fine, Friday it is. He then switched it to this evening. That's fine too. This one is a bumper pull, I don't have to pay a hauler. But, with all the previous people just selling it out from underneath me?  I won't hold my breath.  I just keep looking and bidding and hoping that at some point, I will actually be able to GET a unit that a seller has AGREED to sell to me.  

Money being transferred to my account, which will pay for a trailer. I do have enough money and then some to pay for one, I'm just backed up by this money coming in to be able to handle bills and expenses. I think I had another long term come in yesterday, these are people that camped in their pickup behind the shed a while back. The father of the lady passed away and they came into some money, enough to buy a decent trailer. I'm pretty sure it was them I saw going towards the property when I was going home yesterday evening.  I don't know for sure, the cameras didn't record the event of them or anyone else going in and out of the park or the shed.  These cameras are a joke and I want to sent them back to T Mobile. They work -when they want to.  

They work on live almost always. But it's the recording function that is sporadic. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.  

I have no idea what today will bring, I just know that those kids have to come the entire day with us again.  That's getting old. They get bored and they get antsy.  There is only so much a kid can do at the property before getting completely exasperated and I'm going to suggest they be allowed to use my old phone hooked up to wifi to watch videos or something.  That's up to dad, of course but this will be day 3 of them having to spend an entire day out there, getting cranky and fussing about everything.  I get that they need to learn about what it is to spend your days working, however, it is summertime for them now and I just think it would make the day easier if they could all huddle around a phone. 

Well, it's getting late, at least for this endeavor at 9:00 am. Time to go to Lowe's and get this show started. 

G'day