You could tell Addler was having an absolutely delightful time prancing and galloping around the trails, stopping to sniff here, do his thing there, etc.  We went around the entire thing and headed back to the SUV - however, he was having none of that. He ran straight for the trailhead entrance and then stopped, staring at me. Ok, Ok!!! I went around a shorter version for I have stuff to do today, but I wanted to give him plenty of time to get his pent up energies out.  

The driveway near the back where the gas platform is, is rather ridiculous.  I'm figuring with everything I need to do, I would need 17 truckloads of gravel.  That's $8,500 plus tax for the cheaper stuff, about $9,500 for the better stuff.  Yup, I don't have that.  Or, I should say, I don't have that to spare.  

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I don't know what happened to the day. Took Addler home, came back with a grinder, made the new saw blades to fit the sawzall (a huge selection of them at Lowe's, none of them were the right size), then tried to cut through the remaining portions on the railroad ties.  

I am amazed at these ties.  They don't want to give it up.  I can see why they use them for railroad tracks, they aren't busting up into little pieces any time soon - and these are old ties that have been removed from the tracks!  I may be amazed, however, I have ruined a chainsaw chain, probably the motor on the circular saw and the sawzall ran out of power before I could finish - and that was taking forever just to do one cut anyway.

James has a miter saw he says will cut through them. I'll find out tomorrow morning, I'll be over there attempting to get stuff done.  I want those blocks available from those railroad ties!  And I want the sign up!  And a lot of other things that cannot be done in one day.  I've got all the elbows in mind that I will need for the piping and I've scoped out the electrical outlets, the outdoor breaker box and breakers I need and other things at Lowe's today. I didn't buy anything - just want to get some of it on the new Amex card.  Don't actually have the card, I can buy it online and pick it up curbside. 

I have not yet looked into what you can use for holes drilled into the shed.  Meaning, some kind of flange or something to seal the inlet for the water line, the sewer line and the wiring.  I will be looking into that - tomorrow or Monday, actually, it's getting late and I'm not staying up too much longer.  

Oh, the estimated shipping date for the washer and dryer are between 2-6 and 2-8. That's the shipping date, not the arrival date.  Apparently ships from the east coast, 1 to 7 business days to arrive. Well, we aren't close to New Jersey, I'll guess it's closer to 7 days.  So, that's that 15th at the latest the machines will arrive.  Wire "expected to arrive Saturday Feb. 4th". Well, I can get the trench dug and get that stuff installed anyway, basically try to have the whole thing up and ready to hook up by the time the machines arrive. I'll have power in that shed for general use, rest assured I'm installing a couple of regular outlets as well. I've got too much money in this stuff, I'm going to work on it once I have everything until it's done.

Mom ordered a folding table for the operation as my birthday gift : ) I wanted her to pick one out and she got it done quickly.  

Still trying to decide whether to get a dumpster or not. Today, that 55 gallon canister was crammed full of garbage. I'm going to see how long it takes to fill it up again before deciding.  I have room at our house container for 2 more of those in it. I'm not looking to spend money I don't need to spend.

Finally? I was looking for land to rent for a truck parking lot. There is none available. But the thought crossed my mind - they are going to build that Interstate right through here - well the other side of town anyway. THAT is where I need to find something.  Not now? Well, the problem is that I am guessing others will have similar ideas.  A truckstop, gas stations, whatever, over there for people to stop at.  Wherever the exits are going to be, that's where land is going to probably go at a premium. NOW would be the time to find something.  

With that? I"m offa here. 

 Google Update. It installed a new version and somehow managed to sing me out of every thing that I have to log into.  Some things I forgot the passwords to and had to go through a whole password reset.  

I will never voluntarily update Google again. If it happens on it's own, so beit, but I'm not clicking on the "update now" button. I simply don't have the time for this nor the desire to have to sit there and log into all of these different platforms. Geesh.  

Anyway....now that that drama is over with, I was finally down 2 more pounds today!  I'm back in the teens territory again, sitting at 219 pounds. I stepped on and off the scale a few times to make sure I was getting an accurate reading.  My original goal was 200 pounds before cheating - but - Sunday is my birthday and I'm definitely going to take a cheat day. I'm already regretting it, lmao. I was going to go full blown cheat all day long, but after seeing this morning's progress, I have decided....not to decide yet. 

Just have to see. The two week guest left yesterday, his work at the plant completed.  I sent him a request to give me a Google review.  As of yet, he did not do it.  I can only ask, folks, if they do it, great, if they don't, at least I tried.  

Next: There is finally some sun shining ! Yayyyyyyyy!  Thank you Jesus!  

What to do with it? Get out there and get busy!  You know, it would be a great day, tho, to take Addler for a nice long walk.  He hasn't been out in 5 days except to go potty excepting yesterday, I forced him to stay out there for a while after it had warmed up a bit. Oh, that's the other thing, he doesn't like cold either. Can't blame him, he is short-coated and can't tolerate cold conditions for too long.  It's 41 degrees right now, getting up to a high of 52 later on. Yes, the dog is on his bed in my bedroom.  But if I take him for a walk he will warm up quickly. I'd like to see what the tiny stream looks like right now. I have never seen that much water running through the RV park area before, I'm curious as to how large the actual stream has widened to? 

So wonderful. The washer and dryer set I ordered? Yeah, it never went through. I'm sitting here going through the system to find - nothing.  Gag. Another week at least before I will see them.  My wire was just today sent off from the USPS facility it was sitting in Illinois.  No shock there with all this bad weather but the washer-dryer thing a bit perplexing.  Oh well!  Crazy.  Now the company just called to confirm the purchase.  

Anyway, allegedly I have a couple coming in today.  I don't know what time and frankly, I don't know if the roads over there are decent enough to drive on yet?  But, I assume if they are typical RV'ers they'll arrive sometime this afternoon. Which is good, because after I take Addler for a walk, I need to go to Lowe's and buy the electrical equipment and also blades for the sawzall to finish cutting up the railroad tie.  I have 2 ties out there, just cutting up one for now.  Those ties are solid and that tar or pitch or whatever they put on them makes it like cutting through stone or something. I think I destroyed my Harbor Freight circular saw doing it.  I'll try the next one using the sawzall only.  I'm not ruining any more chainsaw chains.  I should have just asked Lowe's to cut them for me, I had no idea how much of an ordeal that little situation was going to turn into.  

Whatever the case, it's 10 am and I'm outta here.