Monday, June 5, 2023

 The dead grass looks abysmal. It's really aggravating, but I knew it was coming. there is very little green going now, it's mostly dead, burnt looking grass.  I've spent hours looking all over Google, facebook, whatever, looking at information, sales, services, whatever info I can find.

I'm finding it hard to digest the idea that a 50 pound bag of grass seed can cover up to 10,000 square feet.  

I probably well overseeded the rye grass, but that seed was cheap.  I just can't imagine how a 50 pound bag can cover that much area?  I'm saying this because even tho a bag of summer grass seed is expensive, it comes nowhere near the price of hydroseeding or sod installation if you really can stretch out one single bag for that much area.  

Everything I've read says I need to use a machine to till up the ground.  I suspect that would be true for hydroseeding as well.  

So, here we go.  This dude has an ad going: "costs $64 per 400 square feet versus the cost of sod". So I ask him what he's going to charge for 10,000 square feet?  By his math that should come out to $1,600. He quotes $2,500. 

They will all probably tell me some price beyond what claims they are making online.  

These people are amazing. I wanted to buy a 5th wheel - the pics made it look quite good for the price. So they tell me after 2:00 today. They contact me, you want to come look? Yes, in just a few minutes.  So what do they do? Sell it to someone else. I had contacted them yesterday, I was the only one giving them an actual promise to buy.  I don't get these people.  

And now, a few hours later - I start posts and leave them to do whatever and come back to them oftentimes - the grouchy people starting in on me. This time? I gave it right back. I'm tired of these people complaining.  This is all they do in life.  She gets drunk, he drinks as well but I don't think near as much as she does. She gets drunk on wine every single night. And then? She has to open her mouth and start spewing. As I already knew, but this time she all but admitted it, she is spewing filth to anyone that will listen.  

So, I told her I'm tired of cleaning up her dog's shit and I'm also tired of picking up your husband's cigarette butts.  It went back and forth, but if they want out of there, they can pack their bags and leave. I don't need that kind of bs for $425 per month, I'll replace them or if I can't, I'd rather go back to trucking than listen to constant whining from people that take pleasure in it. She lets her little dogs run all over the place. I'm done with these people, they want to dish it out, I'm going to give it right back to them.  They think I should be there all the time.  Like what?  

What the hell do these people think I'm doing, anyway?  It doesn't matter. They will find something to complain about because that is their nature. It's poison, it's foul and it gets on other people. If left unchecked, it will just get other people to start thinking the same way. I've been there, done that. I told her that I have done room rentals for many, many years, it's the same damn thing if not more so as an RV park where people are all living in a small community and people need to respect each other.  She thinks she knows everything. "I've stayed at 100's of RV's parks" and yada yada yada. I've tolerated it all the way up until today.  No more.  They like it, stay and shut up.  If they don't, get your trailer hooked up to your truck and get the hell out of there. 

I get unsolicited compliments about my park all the time. I know I have something good going there, they can bitch about it all they want, I have shrugged it off - long enough.  I can make it better, but that all costs money. It's about as good as it gets for right now. If people like it, stay! If they don't, don't stay!  

Here's a primer about RV parks that owners forged into my brain long before I opened the park up: You can't and won't be able to please everyone. These people have been doing it for decades and speak out of experience. You focus on the things that you think make a good place to stay. Some people won't like it. There are always those "some people".  My place is a conveniently located park that is quiet, peaceful, away from the city but close enough to be right there.  It's really quite an amazing location considering the other parks around.  How do I know this? Not just because I live in town, but because other people have been telling me this for months now. What do I go by? 

I'm just venting a little bit.  She stopped texting and I was happy to stop as well.  She blew up my phone out of the blue and it was nothing but complaining.  

I've spent countless hours working at that park. Long before they ever showed up and making their ridiculous judgments based off of - what I don't know - I was working my ass off over there.  Some of the things I thought would be important didn't pan out, like that bridge I built in the back of the property. I love having it there, don't get me wrong, but that walking trail gets very little use beyond me, the dog and the boys.  Tent camping hasn't panned out, either.  It's cheap camping as far as the price is concerned at $10 per night.  

I don't really think I'm off with trying to acquire a park-owned trailer to rent out, I just don't know how it will work out in reality. IE: will a person/family take care of it or trash it?  There is always that kind of risk in any kind of housing rental.  It's why you try to do background checks and get deposits.  

I've got my work cut out for me the rest of this week and going into next week. I am going to leave the shed alone for awhile except to replace the AC unit and continue to take a break from that stuff. 

 Friday late-morning Typical morning when there is no work.  It was, I should say, until the new guy called.  "There's nothing wron...