The riding mower works.  I got most of the weeds down behind the west side trailers, mowed the doggy park, alongside the driving coming in, out front in front of the signs and beside the street ad the back behind the shed along the driveway where I have over flow parking.  There is more to do but the lion's share of the riding mower stuff is done. All the lots need push mowed again - even tho it hasn't been raining. Whatever kind of grass that is growing there naturally doesn't care and the weeds? Certainly don't care.  

I was asked to watch the boys so I came home to babysit - a much needed break and lunchtime anyway. 

The new guy said he'd call at lunch break to pay. That hasn't happened yet. Not overly concerned, just want to get that tucked away into the business bank account.  I think someone else owes today or tomorrow, need to get out my notebook and take a look. 

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He didn't call at lunch, he called tonight. He's in Houston and left his trailer at my park.  His company is paying the bill, he doesn't care.  I just wonder about all of this stuff, but if the money is green, I'm taking it.  Like, he isn't even coming back for a week or so.  Whatever the case, I got a month's rent out of that one, keep em' coming, please.  Got two more leaving in the next couple days, two more needed!  

The New Jersey people ran out when I was over there and handed me $50.  It adds up, I immediately log their payments to keep track of what they have paid.  They are paid up for the first month, somewhere around half way paid up for the month they are in and fast approaching another month payment.  But, he is now working and I assume/hope a mechanic will make some kind of decent money.

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Tuesday - morning]

An actual chance of rain popped up out of nowhere. Grass is dying everywhere, we really need it to rain and saturate the ground nicely.  The radar showing rain just north of us. 

Sleep - went to bed at 11. No idea why I went to bed that late, I just did. Woke up at 3:30 am, back to slep at 4:30 and then awake at 8.  That's a decent amount of sleep and third day in a row.  I actually feel sluggish, like I could just go back to sleep for several more hours. 

No, lol, I'm not doing that but I bet I could.  The kids are making a lot of noise, sleeping is impossible at this point.  And anyway, I have stuff to do.  First thing's first, some people that came in for 7 days, extended it to 13 are now wanting to extend it another 5 days. Fortunately, I have a back in lot available, but the overnighters wanted a pull through. Well, I guess fortunately as well the 9 day stay is leaving this morning.  They are in a pull through spot and check out time is noon, check in time is 1, I think.  If the overnighters show up early, I'll tell them the check out times clearly listed on the website - but - they can have the back in lot if they so desire.  

Now, when you've got a full park all the time, you can shift trailers around, but mostly, you stick with whatever they signed up for.  So for example, if these people that keep extending their stay were at my park with it full and always full, people coming and going, I'd have no choice but to tell them the space was reserved long ago and they will have to leave. And yes, they will leave. Anytime people start asking to extend their stay, they always ask if they can do it.

I only know this from reading about other RV parks that are always full during the summer time and what they do. Parks near major attractions stay full during the summer.  Then you have seasonal parks - open spring and summer, closed somewhere in fall and all of winter.  You know, areas where it's too cold to be camping.  It's really never too cold to camp, but there are challenges such as freezing pipes. 

Anyway, I've got more en-queue that need to pay and I've got at least one person considering whether they want to move in or not. It's the dude that was run over by a car while on his motorcycle.  They came this morning very early to look. Like, there is zero chance I would be there that early unless there was some sort of emergency.  Thankfully, emergencies are far and few between. 

And, the dude that was claiming it was a power issue with either the park or the power company was proven wrong by the RV tech yesterday. I knew something was wrong with his trailer when I touched that circuit breaker and it was very hot to the touch.  Like, I'm surprised the thing didn't melt.  I saw the rv tech coming in so I stopped at the trailer.  Told him about the hot breaker.  He figured it out.  The owner had left the water heater in electric mode.  He was supposed to switch it to propane mode while parked and having AC unit running so it doesn't draw too much amperage.

There was nothing to fix.  Just switched it over and that was that.  I may not be an electrician, but I have a good working knowledge of how it works.  If the circuit breaker is scorching hot, there is too much power going through it.  I'll own up to anything wrong on the RV park side  if it is, indeed the park problem.

I don't expect anything like that to happen unless the west side circuit gets overloaded. One of the west side back in spots is empty atm, so that shouldn't be an issue.  This is referencing adding my RV and that old trailer to the system.  I also need to inspect the guy that left for 9 days. I don't know if he left his window units on or not.  If they're off, that's even more of a reprieve, tho something tells me they are probably both on.