This stuff wears me out. I actually think it would be easier to go back to work for some trucking company than attempting to deal with all of this park business stuff. I'm far from 100% as it stands so physical labor sort of takes it right out of me.

First, of course the morning was spent going through all the providers in my area for internet.  Boost and Fidelity are the only contenders.  There was one other company, but they piggy-back off of Verizon cell towers and Verizon already told me there is not enough signal strength for internet/wifi. 

Then I called the bank and got the process started to switch the payments for the land from my personal account to the business account.  

Then I got a call from the sign company, they had seen a missed call from me from last week. Yes, I need a couple more signs, detailing it to him what I want over the phone.  He "made" the signs on computer, sent me pics of what the finished product would look like and I said yes, that's perfect.  

After that, over to Walmart. This was not business related. Well sort of.  I wanted my own umbrella for this rainy season so I didn't have to take the family umbrella over there if it's raining.  I also needed some algae killer for my aquarium, the water is turning green actually.  And then I found candles on sale for 75% off, I absolutely love burning smelly candles in my bedroom.  

Anyway, over to Lowe's. Got the wider diameter pipe.  Then I got 2, 10-foot sticks of 1-1/2 inch PVC pipe - I am going to run that across the driveway to drain an increasingly larger pool of water that accumulates when it rains.  It's pretty bad.  I need the water to be able to drain, then I can fix the giant crater.  A couple of bags of quikcrete and I was done there.  Well, it didn't cross my mind until I had left that I am going to need 2, 10-foot 4X4's to install the new sign along the highway.

But I wouldn't have wanted to put those in my SUV anyway, it would just tear things up in there.  A couple of 10 foot sticks of PVC didn't mess anything up in contrast.  I'll have to get the trailer out for that.  Get some more grass seed as well when I do that. 

Over to the property. Both RV's were gone - but that was expected. They both said they were leaving this morning.  One heading to Tennessee and the other down to the border.  Safe travels, thanks for coming! I'm going to send them links to review the park.  If they so desire, they will review it and then it will come back to me for "final review".  I can tell ya, I'm not going to publish negative reviews if it's within my power to do so.  The people that I "saved" should give me something good or nothing at all.  The other people? I have no clue.  I only saw them for a few minutes and that was that.  

I threw the PVC out near where I need to install it and then went over and started digging out the gate pipe that is the wrong size. That took quite a while and a lot of energy to get that thing out of there. Remember, I had it cemented in.  But I did, eventually get it out and installed the new one with fresh quikcrete and then started working on the fencing to where the gate is. I got as far as I can get with it until the cement dries and I can finally finish that doggy park.  

That took up quite a of time and it wore me out.  In that time, an older gentleman came up and started asking questions about lot rent. I let him know about that but then he got into how much it cost to do all of the work to build the park.  I wasn't following him, I got suspicious.  It's pretty normal thing for competitors to go to their competition and act like they're customers.  I said yup, it cost a lot of money.  I mean, is it anyone else's business to ask such questions? I guess I don't mind answering them, but I got that gut feeling that this dude wasn't legit.  He wasn't looking for a lot to rent - but what he really wanted, I don't know. 

He left, I said have a great day! ....regardless of my suspicions, he could be a legitimate, potential customer so I just treated him in such a manner.  He was driving a late model Ford pickup - no cheap truck, he has money whoever he is and whatever his intentions are/were. 

It rained all last night so I didn't even try to light fires. It was sunny today and in the 70's, but I suspect it's going to be several days before I can think about burning all of that dried up wood piles out of there. It's going to have to be tended to - all day long - all 3 of those piles. Not because it could possibly take off and burn everything down, no, that's not it. It's because it's not all compacted together.  Basically, you pick a spot to start a fire and then you get your trusty chainsaw out and start cutting stuff up and throwing it on the fire itself.  

That or those are going to be a long day/s just doing that, but it must be done.  The fire pit is going to be completely redone.  I didn't much care for the way the guy did it, I didn't ask him to dig a deep hole and now that I see the hole is filled up with water? No thanks. I'm just going to fill it in and build the thing above ground.  That way, water will just drain right on through it instead of building up inside of it.  I do appreciate his intentions, but it won't work. It will be many days before that is dried out and can start work on that.  

At least I am quite close to being done with the doggy park and installing that drain line across the driveway will take lots of energy but it should be relatively easy enough to get done.  I figure several days for that cement to dry out for that post, I'm not going to even try to do anything with it until I am positive it's dry and putting tension on it isn't going to pull it sideways.  I only have one full time couple that is moving in - I don't have any more short or long term people - yet.

But, I did have the web guy put a notice on the front page that "free wifi coming soon!".  This is to appeal to people looking for a park to stay at for the RV'ing season.  If you don't have wifi, you can write a lot of potential customer base off. I don't know why I waited so long, it just really slipped my mind.  Only after Taylor said something about it yesterday did it hit home - yes, I need to get that done!  

So at least it says it will be coming soon and that at least gives any potential customers the knowledge that by the time they get there for their vacation rv'ing? It will have it.  Bath house? Laundry? I don't know folks, it's just not money I have to spend right now.  I wish I could at the very least get a washer and dryer in there - but it's $500 for me to run a power line to the shed. That doesn't include breaker box, breakers, running lines inside the shed, etc.  And I would have to dig out the sewer and water lines to run them over there as well.  

I'm not saying I can't or won't do it, I just don't have the money for that right now.  As it stands, at the very minimum, after I get that water drainage pipe in, I really must have at least a couple truckloads of gravel brought in to fix that entire area.  So there's a grand or more worth of gravel and that's doing it myself - having the truck bring it in and then me spreading it.  

I just sit here and hope that more people will call at the last moment - do you have anything available tonight? Why yes, yes I do!  

 There isn't any getting past having wifi available.  I've read far too many stories and far too many poll results from a variety of outlets saying that a very large percentage of campers want wifi available or they will just scroll on.  So much so, that I have my web support adding "WiFi COMING SOON!" to the web page.  And that it will, in one form or another.  Right now, I have a feeler out to the local internet company to find out what they would charge to wire the telephone poles on my property with their line to bring it to the park.  It's about 450 feet back - further really if you are going to the other end of the park.  But, it need only go to the final pole, down it and over to where I will install it not far from the pole and the power meters are right there, next to the pole.  I can run the router about 100 feet away from there on a stand and then have repeaters to strengthen the signal.  

It's going to happen and soon.  I'd prefer to try Starlink - but they aren't here yet. Just a statement that they plan to expand to my area sometime in 2023.  Unhelpful.  The local internet provider is Fidelity, they are my first choice since it's wired internet versus trying to bring it in via cellphone towers.  T Mobile says they aren't available there yet, either.  I need decent service, if they say they aren't available, Im not fooling with it.  Next would be Verizon and ATT.  T Mobile is cheaper hence I tried them first.  

Well that was fast.  Fidelity already called me back, said there has never been internet at your property, we have submitted it to our engineers to take a look, see what it will take and then we will get back with you. I mentioned that it will have to be run a ways back into the property and they said, yup, we do that too.  I'm not really sure why they called, I guess to tell me their engineers will be assessing it.  I wouldn't mind having them set up the entire thing, even if it costs a few thousand dollars.  It's money well spent to get the people in there.  

And a discussion with Verizon eliminated them as well, they said not enough signal strength. The choices are narrowing.  ATT is the only real option I would consider for cellphone tower service and I have no idea what their signal strength is.  I may very well be stuck with Fidelity, I can only hope they aren't going to try to charge me a fortune to run that line back in there.  ATT has pedestals running through the neighborhood, but they emphatically tell me they have no service there even tho they went to the expense of installing them.  It makes no sense, whatsoever, to put all of that in there and have nothing available to anyone.  

Alright, my signs are ordered.  There is confusion on the main driveway as to where to actually pull in.  I have a sign at the entrance, but it's at the back of the park and you can't really see it until you come up on it.  So now, I am having a sign made that says "park entrance, 400 feet". This will eliminate the confusion, mostly caused because the pull through sites look as tho you just drive into them from the main driveway. Now, if someone were to do that, they could still get out of the park. Just not how the park is set up, tho.  

Oh!  Now that I have had a civil, pleasant discussion with the new gas owners, the dude in the green pickup? Is now waving!  Yay!  He has also slowed down considerably.  That's marvelous news for me, I don't have to worry about contending with these people (hopefully) any longer. There are still service companies that go in there that contact out to the new owners, but they don't go in there that often.  Anyway, the dude in the pickup is in and out of there daily.  I mean, 7 days a week, they send an employee in there to check the operation and it's almost always him.  I wonder what kind of pay that guy gets to do that. They just check the liquid foam container, enter some info into a laptop and then leave.  

Yeah, probably won't be getting one of those jobs, but it IS interesting.  Ok, well I have nothing more I can do about internet right now until Fidelity calls back and I suspect that will take a minute for them to determine what they are going to have to do and what, if any, costs they are going to charge to install it.  ATT isn't showing any internet service at the address via cell signals either.  Well wait, whoa and hold up. Boost has good signal according to their map for my property.  

Anyway, it's not raining today and I need to get to lowe's, buy the correct items for the dog park gate entrance and get busy.  

G'day.