That never happens. To the point that yes, I did grab my handgun and then went to the door. 

A person, ringing the doorbell after 8: 00 am? No one comes over there that early.  I don't know this person, I don't know if they have ill intent and I have no idea what they want.  I didn't show the handgun, of course, no need to escalate something that may just be an innocent request or selling something, tho we do have a sign up saying no solicitors.  

The man wanted to know if we wanted our lawn mowed.  The problem? There was no mower in sight, no pickup truck, nothing.  I always wonder if the person is just seeing if anyone is home so that they can try to break in.  It's happened before, the reason we got the Nest doorbell and a broad angle camera that shows the entire yard and the street.  The point? I'm not going to lose my life to some person that may have other than my best interests in my mind.  The lawn does need mowed, I plan on doing it in the next few days.  

Anyway, Tuesday: Morning.  I was already awake, long before that.  Another sleepless night as it stands.  Like, maybe 4 hours.  Not like I didn't try to sleep.  It makes me feel like s*** the next day after spending 8 or 9 hours in bed and getting half the sleep I need.  

I invited the tent lady to go in and take a look at the coach yesterday.  She did so after she got off of work and declared she wants the thing and not to bother putting a sofa in there, they'll need to put a bed there. Yes, I said a sofa-bed, not just a sofa.  But whatever, they can do whatever they like with it as long as they don't trash the thing.  No, they aren't being allowed in there until they have the money to pay the first month up front, plus I need to put together a contract. I'll have to do some searching online for something that has the appropriate legaleze and then add my own specifics to it.  

The New Jersey people, as I will refer to them from now on, said they sold whatever and they will have the money for me today.  Today is the end of the line.  They will either pay something, at least a month's rent, or they will leave.  If they need help leaving, I will accommodate them on that.  Hook it up, drag it out of there, drop it wherever and be done with it. Sounds cruel? Yes until you understand that they had money and blew it on other things. 

You don't necessarily expect that kind of behavior from the older generation.  It's the young people that think other material things take precedence over the roof over their head.  A stark wake up call will change that.  I just sent them a message...priorities will be shifted - their priorities.  I'm not going to continue to pay for their electricity to have AC running in that thing.  It's not free to me.  I'll eat whatever they have used to get them out of there if it's going to come down to that.  "You can't get blood out of a turnip"....

The tiller man texted last night and informed me my tilling holiday will be over as of today.  It was a joke I made after I took it in there and he informed me the new carb won't come until Friday.  It came yesterday and he expects to have the thing running this morning.  Yes, I will go get the thing and yes, I will pick up where I left off.  Heat and all.  I have plenty of iced down water and sugar free gatorades over there plus a hose to pour cold water over my head if need be.  If nothing else, the inside of the shed is cool, cool enough to bring internal body temps down if you sit in there long enough.  

So, unless there is another issue with that thing that he didn't know about, it should purr like a kitten and be ready for me to get with the program.  The trucking company that wants to hire me  has a terminal manager that told the recruiter to tell me he's going to be calling me at 10:00 am.  I don't know what he wants, probably just to feel me out and see if it's a good fit.  They incur no small expense in flying people to Oregon, paying them a daily wage while the person is in training plus housing and feeding them. I am responsible for nothing beyond showing up if this goes through.  I'm still telling myself I can't make it until mid-September on my current finances.  

No,, but if these people show up that say they are, I have a fighting chance.  It currently takes around 5 or 6 lots to pay the bills what with the high electric usage and then anything after that is profit.  I currently only have 8 units in there with one of them leaving shortly.  That's why I'm in a predicament.  Bills don't care how much money you have or don't have.  The odds of being able to hold out that long increase, of course, with any new guests coming in long term. 

I did get a reservation for 9 days yesterday.  It was almost shocking, I am not getting much over night stuff.  It's worth a few hundred dollars as long as they actually show up.  I stick with my ads. The system will automatically give them the weekly discount and charge them the daily rate for the rest.  It's not a bad system, I just don't have much usage of it lately.  If I could get a lot more overnight stuff going, this problem would go away.  

I'm not sure what it is, but I am guessing the overnights aren't coming because a lot of those people are at their summer destinations.  They don't want to be in a hot, humid environment, they want to be up north in the areas where it's nice and cool right now. Texas and Arizona heat are apparently making the national news rounds right now, tho in reality, it's really nothing much different than any other summer. It's hot, who wants to be in the heat? 

Once the temps finally come down later on this year, I will be heavily advertising the fact that we have beautiful weather, nice temperatures, come visit our region!  I'm still learning the ropes, folks and all of these factors are things I really didn't take into consideration when I started up.  I naively thought the place would fill up and that would be that.  Well, after a few months, it actually did, but not with overnighters, it was with long term, it was people coming for work.  Then, a lot of those left, being sent off to other places.  And now, I'm struggling to get new people in there. 

If I can get the RV rented soon, that will help immensely.  That's a nice increase of cash flow that will help the bottom line get boosted.  It is likely in the future, I will be acquiring more units and take more control of my income by having more guaranteed income from park-owned units.  I didn't put that thing in the park name yesterday, that apparently requires a lot more paperwork.  I was trying to get it done before you get hit with "heavy fines" or some such verbiage they used in the paperwork I was reading yesterday.  It's title only, I didn't do registration, pointless to do so.  Let the new owners pay for that. 

On another note, I've been trying to find news of the Pirkey power plant.  Slated this year to be shut down, Swepco unequivocally stated the reason is because of the high cost to do an EPA-forced upgrade that they say is not feasible to do on such an old plant. The stories I have read have this plant listed as a high output plant.  There is nothing wrong with the plant.  You know, it's likely once they shut a plant down, they will never fire it back up again regardless.  And new plants cost many trainloads of money and years to build  The costs are so excessive because of the "clean energy" and "climate control" s***, I don't think many or any new plants are being built anywhere.  I can find nothing in the news but something from February stating that a state senator from this area is pleading with the state agency that is over these plants to stop the closure of the plant.

I just stand in awe of the - stupidity - of our current regime leader in the WH.  He doesn't appear to give 2 cents worth of concern about the fact that shutting down all of these plants is putting extensive pressure on the existing power grid to keep everyone with power.  

Well, here we go.  The tiller is ready.  He doesn't stay in his shop, he likes to do his work at night. I don't think he has ac in there, just big fans and apparently a swamp cooler  Lol, sorry folks, swamp coolers just don't work here.  It might cool a little bit.  The point being I have to make an appointment with him to get the thing.  But I have this 10:00 am appointment with this terminal manager I'm waiting on before I do anything else.  Plus, I'm sitting here with foggy brain.

He just texted and said he worked through the night to fix it.  Uhh, I hope that doesn't mean some huge bill attached with it?  I just asked him what the bill is and what form of payments he'll take.  I kind of get that this dude is a cash only person, but we'll see.  

I think that's about it.  I haven't watched or read any news yet today. It's sometimes frightening to turn on the news, the absurdity of what you see going on nowadays sort of makes you wonder if you aren't in an Alice in Wonderland script and this is just a vivid dream.  The push for socialism/communism has turned into an all out battle. As far as I'm concerned, wokeism is a part of that push as well as inclusivity, diversion and equity social justice junk.  The fact that the Supreme court got rid of affirmative action in Harvard's acceptance policy...and the woke people went crazy....if the SCOTUS hadn't ruled as they have in several recent decisions, we would be well on our way to the next step: get rid of the guns.

They are actively trying to do that as well, such as the new law in Illinois.  If Trump hadn't loaded the court up with conservative (for the most part anyway) justices, this nation would be screwed. Just look at what Biden's pick has been saying?  She's a racist, that's my conclusion with specific statements from her that led to that conclusion.  Really, the battle comes down to who wins the White House. There are also 33 Senate seats up for election and all 435 House seats are up.  I wonder what the pulse of the common American is right now? Are people sick of Biden policy? Do they like what's going on in Congress?  How is this next election going to turn out?  I don't stay up at night thinking about that, but it will be very interesting to see how the next election turns out.

With that, I'm done with this one.

G'day