Sat at the property for a long time. 

Got fresh pics of 3 trailers side by side to give context for how much space you will have away from your neighbor if you come to our park. 

It's much more space than some of the other pics really show you and some people have stated they originally thought everything was crammed together.  This is why I wanted a pro photographer out there.  She took great pics, but none of them really show you the space between lots without 2 of them being parked side by side. 

Honestly, this weather is just gloomy and depressing. There is a reason I don't live in constantly rainy regions - Seattle come to mind. I think everyone is going to be happy tomorrow if the forecast is accurate and we get a full, sunny day!

Well, just no motivation today.  It's been raining all morning and into the afternoon. I went to Kroger's, home, then realized I was missing an ingredient and saw the older couple - the dude half - at the store.  He said a truck had come pulling in and was sitting pretty much where I had been sitting.  He thought it was a service truck and that I was waiting for them to show up.

No. Wasn't expecting anyone.  Did you see what company it was with?  He couldn't tell from that far away.  Well, it could be the power company, there isn't any other service companies that would need to go back there.  I am expecting a washer and dryer to show up - I don't know when. A roll of underground wire - stalled in Illinois because of weather.  I sort of figure a lot of people coming through are either competitors checking us out, neighbors that are curious or potential customers.  I've seen lots of them.

Oil and railroad so far, the next one coming in - if he shows next week - is power. He says he is coming for several months to be an on-call person for whenever the power goes out.  There is an energy plant down 43 - that I didn't know about - that he will be on call for.  I'm as close as they get to that plant.  No one has shown up with junky rigs.  I don't want junky rigs - at all - I'm just saying I haven't been disappointed with the quality of the RV's coming in. 

Okay. 

Delving into the world of Quickbooks.  Some of it easy enough, some of it needs explanations.  I'm currently taking photos of all of the receipts I have saved for construction of the business. There are a lot of them.  I'm up to 60 grand and much more to go.  I don't know if buying the property is somehow tax deductible.  I want to get all that stuff in there and then I'll make an appointment with the accountant.  I would assume they will work with quickbooks and hopefully will just access your account for the info they need.  

Very time consuming.  But I've got to get it done.  Once I go see a tax expert, I am fairly certain they are going to give me strange looks and wonder wth all of this is?  Well, it's the receipts for building the park, most of the incurred last year.  I made zero income off the business last year - that should simply things.  I also connected quickbooks to my bank account - and there is a lot more they want me to do to have a "complete" profile.  

Yeah, well one step at a time, please. 

I've written down all the people that are staying long term, the date they paid, their credit card info (yes, they are allowing it), phone number, lot they are on.  It's mostly that I need to know when they need to pay. But it appears I can set quickbooks up to remind/show me when any given customer is due to pay rent.  I'll figure that out - eventually. Until I do, I have a written record and frankly? I'm going to keep a written record of it regardless.  Quickbooks will keep track of incoming payments and outgoing payments. It will do a lot for just the basic setup.  $15 per month is money well spent for this, I do believe.

Well I'm started on that anyway.  I figure working on it an hour a day or so and it won't take that long to get all the receipts in and get the software setup correctly.  I won't need campworks to hook into it, everything coming in is going through my bank account except for cash payments which obviously don't go through the campgound software anyway.  In fact, so far, the campground software has been all but useless.  I hope someday people will use it to book daily or weekly stays!  Yeah, getting those daily people in.  Tough.  Working on it.  Need more reviews.  After these long term guys have been here a month or so, I'm sending them a request link to give a google review.  The guy that is here 2 weeks I'll send to him after he leaves.  

What if they didn't like it? If they didn't, they certainly aren't giving me that impression.  

I was looking at receipts for the trackhoe (mini-ex, I call them trackhoes regardless of size, even the mini's ARE on tracks) $477 per use.  Necessary evil,, perhaps, but that's a lot of money for only one day's use. 

I have all 8 hours of that thing planned out for it's use.  It'll be a long day.  I don't even know if I can get the trench dug out in one day? A pro could do it in a couple of hours but me?  Lol, no idea.  But, we'll hope for no longer than 5 hours?  I then have a ditch to dig alongside the driveway.  The fenceline side.  There is nowhere for rainwater to drain, it just runs on the driveway itself.  If I can get that done ina timely manner, I can try to push the first burn pile out.  It's just a mount of dirt with ashes and some burned wood left on it.  Needs to go. 

That will take all day, at least. I don't have to plan anything else for it. I'll get my money's worth of it, in other words. I don't really think a machine that small is worth that much for one day rental. There are no other choices. Bring it from Longview and pay a hefty delivery fee.  I haul the trackhoe from the local place myself, it's only a few miles. But I wouldn't want that much weight on my SUV for 35 miles each way.  

Well I'm done with this.  Getting the kids in a few and dinner is on.  

 Sometimes I write an entry, click the button to post it and then get off of here. I come back the next day or later on or whenever and there it is, still sitting as a draft?  Many of those never get posted.  

This weather is starting to remind me of Seattle, when I was up there 3 months and it rained every single day.  Not most days, not many days, every day.  We're on day 5 of rain and there is no letup in sight, at least for today.  Tomorrow the forecast is bright and sunny. Can't wait for that!   Ill be planning today what I"m going to do tomorrow since much of the last 4 days have been a bust.  I'm hopeful those new tenants stuck in Dallas-Forth Worth area haven't had time to change their mind.  That happens you know.

I wouldn't be pulling a super-large 5th wheel trailer if I were them through that mess, either.  Well, I wouldn't want to anyway.  My trucking experience I would probably just do it anyway unless the roads were so treacherous it would be stupid to keep driving.  Yes, I've been stupid before, freely admit it. Drivng through blizzards, tornadoes, sleet, hail, flooding, I'm a little wiser in my older age but I've done some pretty dumb stuff out there.  All in the name of the dollar bill.  Which makes it even dumber to do.  

Personal wealth and the daily rat race are becoming less and less important to me.  If I could get around 30 more lots in there and fill them up, I wouldn't have to "work" ever again.  I love working out there at the property. It IS work, but it's something I mostly enjoy. Not everything, of course, but most of it is therapeutic even.  

Once I got into it a bit, I didn't even mind starting to pull all of those weeds. And there are plenty more to go, lol.  I dunno, but sitting at home I'm starting to get restless. Yes, I have plenty I can do here, but I have to have some outlet, get moving, get the heart pumping, feel alive.  Of course, I could go stand out in the rain in a muddy field and pull more weeds.  They would slide right out of the ground right now.  I probably will do some of that tomorrow just to take advantage of it while it's still quite wet out there.  

I'm now stuck at 11 pounds down, Keto diet that is, but the fat is coming off.  It's becoming noticeable now. The love handles have shrunk considerably.  The belly is shrinking and the waist is definitely smaller - a bit. It almost makes me not want to cheat for my birthday on Sunday.  But they mentioned cake and it would be rude to have a birthday cake put in front of you and not eat any of it.  It'll just be a day of high carbs and then the next day? I'll fast at least 24 hours.  When I say fast, I mean water only.  It's the quickest way to get back to ketosis.  

I think I'm going to go to the property in a bit and just sit and dream.  I did that yesterday, it was raining and I just sat there.  There are 6 trailers there but when I was there yesterday? No one was home.  All out working excepting the retired couple, don't know where they went.  None of my business, either. They are friendly people and will socialize here and there, but for the most part, they like to keep to themselves with the noteable exception of having family and friends over here and there.  Oh,they have the rent for me, but I'm not collecting it until tomorrow probably. I'm not going to get wet getting money, it can wait another day.  

I've just about given up trying to find another internet solution. 7 plug grand for Fidelity or wait for starlink (and hope it works as well as people say it does).  From my calculations, I'm 3 days away from running out of my data allotment for the Verizon internet setup and then there will be 6 days of extra charges on there.  It will bring the total bill for 30 days to around $240.  There are 5 out of 6 people using it so far.  

There are plenty of satellite options out there.  Endless advertisements for them.  But their speeds are questionable.  T Mobile apparently has internet access out there and if I could get the 5g signal, they would give me an awesome deal. But since 5g isn't available out there - yet - they want to put me on a limited profile. Meaning, the same thing I have with Verizon right now.  Limited data and then overage charges.  Well, I checked those options all out, Verizon has the best plan for allowable data and overages.  

I have no idea what to do beyond going into yet another loan for Fidelity wired cable or just waiting for starlink. ATM? Waiting for starlink. I'll pay the upfront costs for Starlink whenever it becomes available to find out if it can supply what I need.  It is highly likely that at some point? I'm going to cough up the considerable amount of money Fidelity wants and eat it.  They're hard wired and I have it at home.  It works great - usually anyway - and they have unlimited plans.  If I ever get into building more lots - which I definitely plan on doing at some point - I'm going to need cable that supplies a much better signal and download speeds.  

Well enough.  Some things you just have to let loose and let go.  The only reason I kept looking at internet possibilities is because of course, once you start googling something, Facebook picks it right up and starts throwing endless ads at you.

For now? I'm heading to the property.  See what kind of catastrophe the driveway is.