A fairly long day.  The boys woke me up this morning - a forbidden thing to do on a Sunday morning, they are not supposed to make noise if they wake up before everyone else - which they always do - and are to either quietly play in their bedroom or sit on the couch and watch tv.  They did neither.  Arguing, yelling, going at it with each other - pretty much what brothers do. 

So, I finally got up, went out there and told them I wasn't sure I was taking them to church today because of it.  

I was rather irritated at that particular point in time and wanted nothing to do with those kids.  

Took a shower, got some coffee in me and then had them profusely apologizing to me.  So I ended up taking them.

Well, the service only lasted an hour but I stayed another 2 hours for a Church 101 thing the pastor does with whosoever will. Usually new attendees but long time people show up as well.  They had free pizza both for the boys in the children's ministry room and for the adults. I had pizza toppings - my diet forbids eating any pizza dough unless it's the low carb kind.  

It was interesting albeit nothing I didn't already know. Basic tenets of Christian faith, I mostly went to see if I could meet new people. The pastor was perplexed when I said I had been going for 6 months.  

And let the problems begin!  First, I receive a complaint about a person parking their pickup truck in the grass. Yup, definite no-no.  I texted that person hours ago - when I drove through the park, it was still parked there.  Yup.  I didn't have time to deal with it, if they are going to openly defy me, it may turn ugly.  How on earth do you park on grass? And they are leaving deep ruts there as well.

Then I got a complaint about a person blaring music at midnight last night. That is a definite no-no and is clearly written in the rules.  The person said they went over and banged on their door to tell them to turn it down - which that person did.  

Then I visited the trash area.  It was overflowing - that's because I haven't received the other container yet, tho the people who piled it up could have put it in a 3rd container I have out there?  But that's not the problem. Someone put a clothes basket full of household garbage in it - not in a plastic bag.  So I had to pick the stuff out of there and put into a giant plastic bag - I keep lots of those handy.  

My rules are going to be changing. Well, they are going to be added to.  In fact, writing this reminded me and I have already updated them, printing them out and will be distributing them to every site.  I am turning business down now, I can afford to lose a person that gets mad if they don't want to live by the rules.  

We spend so much time at church, then getting the trash to the curb, then going to Kroger's for dinner items, well, the day was mostly over.  Kids to school, parents to work and me to the park in the morning.  

I am not letting up on my determination to get this stuff done.  Well, I need to go to Lowe's first now that I have the trailer hitched up to the SUV and get the remaining pipe I need and then back to the park. I'll install that pipe first just to get it over with.  Then a gamut of things that I have already reflected on in previous posts - but the sheds are up there on the priority list.  

I've been bombarded by texts from the people at lot 2. They really want lot 14.  They're decent people and I would rather have 2 pull throughs available.  So they moved over there today.  It's a lot more space. They said they'd be there til June, it isn't permanent.  

I'm considering getting more involved in church activities. Note that I didn't say anything about volunteering, I'm not ready for that yet.  Just that the pastor clarified their schedule.  The Lord's Supper is, of course, about breaking bread but it is also a potluck meal.  They believe when you take Communion, it is a part of a broader experience of eating dinner together.  So they have that twice a week.  I don't know about eating a potluck - that is usually a lot of carb filled stuff but perhaps I could find something, but I do want to take Communion. They don't do it during church services because of their belief that it should include a meal. 

And there are a LOT more groups than what the weekly flyer suggests.  There is also Wednesday morning prayer - it's at 7:00 am, I could probably make that.  Unless I go back to trucking of course.  Just thinking about it for the moment.  I'm just pondering right now.  A stress releaser? Some place to go to get my mind off this business.  I go home and I get to work on things related to business. I leave the house and 90% of the time if not more it's business related.  

I know small business owners are inundated with work, especially the first year and when they first start up, but life can't just be about business.  But yes, everything that needs to be done? It can get a bit overwhelming. It will subside over time when I get certain things done and won't have to do them again.  It's why I'm really pushing myself to get this shed over and done with.  It's the biggest thing right now.  The older couple volunteered to help put more baling wire on the dog park fencing. I completely forgot about it after I started thinking about how to get more business in.  

They're a real help. If I had more lots and income, I would give them a reduced rate.  Just out of the question right now by force of income - or lack of sufficient.