I don't know if it was just sweating my @$$ off all day or what, but at least at the moment and pretty much the entire day outside, I haven't been itching at all. Like it just when whoosh! and disappeared.  My painting ambitions went right out the window. Not a big priority. The ugliness of the lots IS a priority.

So, I fired up that tiller machine and went to work.  I got 3 lots done - it takes hours, it's not fast work - and then the thing quit on me. I looked down at it, the carburetor was half hanging off of it.  It's not a new machine by any stretch of the imagination. That put a dent in my progress as I had to go find a gasket for the carburetor and replace the missing screw.  

No gasket available at 3 different places,  I bought gasket material and cut my own out.  Got it back together, not sure if I got something wrong, it kind of choked, sputtered but finally got moving. 2 lots later and I quit. It was after 5, I was drenched in sweat, not feeling particularly good, but felt good to get some of this stuff done.  I've got 6 lots done and 1 partially done.  Basically 8 to go, the partial one was only one pass, that particular lot will take probably 6 or 7 passes over it to do all of it.

Just diligently working to try and get all of this stuff done, over with and behind me.  

Maria was a no show. She was going to clean the thing out. I have a couple practically begging me to let them rent the thing.  I couldn't give them a definitive answer when it's going to be done, I want it cleaned up and the carpet and sofa in there.  I think I will invite them up to take a look at it.  I don't know what their situation is, but they want to be near our town desperately for some odd reason versus the even smaller town that they are in. 

The nearest big city around here, at least my version of one, is 157 miles away - Dallas.  Houston is 240 miles.  All the towns around here are tiny little things.  I don't consider Shreveport or Longview a big city by any stretch of the imagination.  

Anyway, I think tomorrow I will break the day up into a couple of sectors.  Install the carpet in the RV and then do some more tilling?  I need to feel like I'm working on the RV as well, I need the money that thing can generate.  It's almost guaranteed that if I advertise that thing in the local gossip group, someone or several someones will be asking about it.  It's a place to live, it's near the town - ok they call it a city, I just think a place that only has 22,000 or so citizens is a town, lol - there's plenty of jobs in that town - albeit low paying, that's what some people's mentality is.  

In reality, if I get started on that RV tomorrow, the lot tilling will take a backseat and I will work on that thing all day long?  It's just the way I do things. It's a double whammy as far as I see it. The park is kind of a turn off in it's appearance, so I don't wonder if that's why I'm not getting more long term but the RV is a money generator. They are both money generators, which one should take precedence?  Hence, since I don't have the answer to that, I will work on both of them simultaneously.  

I have a heat headache, gag.  Just sitting in my cool bedroom drinking lots of fluids right now, trying to rehydrate. 

I don't know what's going on with Keto.  I've been doing it for a couple of weeks now? And still not in ketosis.  I have found the real fat loss really begins once ketosis is reached.  I don't know if I need to do a water fast for a couple of days or what.  My weight came down 10 pounds but I never checked if I was in ketosis. I noticed the scale moving back up even tho I really haven't been eating a lot lately.  Salads, some meats, cheeses.  Lots of salads.  Today I've eaten a very small bowl of spaghetti sauce - no noodles - and a slim jim.  

I'm fixing to eat a salad, maybe put some chicken on it.  

I take that back. There are 2 parties interested in renting out that RV.  I'm getting bad vibes on one of the couples, there is too much desperation.  Like, what's the whole/real story here? I'm trying to get it out of them. 

Well whatever. I just remembered that I saw one of the spigots at one of the empty lots leaking today. I think I have the parts already to fix it.  It's a slow leak, but you know how a leak going on 24 hours a day can equate to a lot of water and a high water bill.  

I haven't heard back from the people stranded in New Jersey.  I haven't even thought about it today until just now.  They're "supposed" to be getting a brother to come over and hand over some money.  I dunno, but I unplugged the thing, I'm not going to have the thing being cooled with no one living in it or paying for the electricity.  Senseless waste of electricity.  

Enough. It's only 9 but I'm super tired.  Going to sleep early.