The dumpster is overflowing.  Again.  I think I may have to have it moved to near the amenities shed.  I just can't with people apparently driving in there and dumping their trash that don't live/stay at my park.  I mean, it's overflowing to where there was a bag of trash laying on the ground. Pickup isn't until Wednesday morning. 

I very much suspect the house across the street are at least some of the culprits.  They don't ever have their trash can at the curb anymore - I would know, I'm there daily.  That is the place that had trash laying all over the place for 2 months or longer and finally, one day, they had it all cleaned up.  If it weren't so disgusting, I would go through some of those bags of trash and see if there is any identifying papers in there such as power bills or whatever to see if I can figure out what's going on.  

It is possible, I suppose, that my guests/tenants are throwing away that much trash, but not likely.  There are plenty of weeks where the thing is half full and the same number of guests at the park.  The time I found the thing half full of attic style insulation clued me in on the idea that someone - or lots of someone's - is driving up my driveway, dumping their trash and leaving.  Who knows.

I cut a fallen tree up into pieces in the vehicle storage area behind the shed, mowed the area where that boat was and then contacted them. Please move that boat back behind the shed, I don't want it where you parked it.  Also, please back your vehicles up a bit closer to your trailer so the front ends aren't jutting out so far into the driveway and please bring back the ladder you borrowed if you are done with it.  They had, amazingly, cleaned up all of that mess that was along the front of the driveway without my asking them. 

She (I thought it was the guy's number I was texting) contacted me back and said yes sir, I will have my husband move the boat when he gets home, we will park closer to the trailer and he will bring back your ladder.  

Thank you!

Scrubbed the toilet and the shower stall - they weren't too bad but I think it necessary to spray bleach on them often to keep bacteria/fungus away.  I have a gallon of bleach that I am going to start pouring into a spray bottle now that my bottle of store brand cleaner is empty.  

There was a lot of quarters in those machine quarter holding boxes.  I was surprised. I decided out of the blue to check it.  I will be putting those into wraps and turning them into the business account before the end of the month. Every little bit helps.  

A newer tenant asked me "a small request"- which was to put up a mirror in the bathroom. Yup, he's right, I should have done that a while back. I am currently looking for a used one, tho, new ones are pricey.  Even basic stuff is $60. That may not be pricey but I'm counting my dollars now and trying to keep expenses down to the bare minimum.  Lowe's was pricey, Walmart didn't have the style I am looking for. Good will have this itty, bitty little thing.  I got home and got on my computer and saw that Big Lots has a large, square mirror for a good price. 

So, I will head back up there later on and see it in person.  Oh, well I did go to buy a mirror at someone's house before all of that. There was a reason they didn't show the bottom of the mirror in the pic.  It has these ugly leg looking things on it and the wood was cracked in 2 places.  I am not interested in ugly.  You sure you don't want it? Yes, I'm sure...getting into my vehicle to leave.  They must have been desperate. Good, take a full pic of the thing and show what the whole thing looks like.  

There is another mirror that has the entire thing in the pic and doing close up of it, there is nothing wrong with it. However, it's clear over in Bossier City, quite the drive for just a mirror.  I've pretty much decided the Big Lots mirror will the "The One".  I don't particularly feel the need to drive over 40 miles each way for a mirror. The cost of the fuel will make the price not worth it alone.  I don't have a fuel economical vehicle.  

Jobs.  Well, that accident I had not long ago is causing me to have to bypass lots of stuff I was interested in.  "No at-fault/preventable accidents within the last 2 years".  That ain't me, unfortunately.  There's still some local stuff I don't see any verbiage like that written in there, so I'm going to do the full blown applications.  Right now, I know I have a job lined up with Oregon orientation if nothing else works out, that has me home daily or at least very often.  I figured it would be a chore finding something with an accident and the accompanying ticket plus the fact I haven't driven a truck in a year.  Most companies really aren't saying much about that - 1 year's driving experience within the last 3 years is what I see a lot of.  

 My fasting has started, easy enough right now.  This evening it will get more difficult and then tomorrow will probably be rough. By Wednesday I'll either be starving to death or the hunger will fade away.  It happens that way - at the 3 day mark you find you're not as hungry as the 2 previous days.  It would actually be good to go 8 or more days, I doubt I'll last that long, just shooting for 3 right now.  

I don't remember when the last, measurable rain was, I think it was that big storm that knocked out power for almost 7 days, that's been a while back.  Everything is dried out and the county is under a burn ban along with the city.  If we don't water the grass soon, that will also die out.  Need to do that tonight.  

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Everything cut short.  I was in my bedroom watching TV with the boys when the phone rang. It was Taylor, can you get James? He isn't answering his phone.

A short time later, she is home, I am hearing the doctor told her she needs to go to the hospital immediately, enzymes are too high, some sort of condition that could be caused that shuts down the liver and kidneys and that she should go into a seizure.  Well, we all loaded up into the vehicle and drove 2 towns over, the local hospital here is ER stuff only.  

Up into her room, said our goodbyes but still went out to eat for James birthday today.  Just that Taylor was not with us.  

On the way home - she is being held for 24 hours for observation - she texted a pic of the tubes in her and then they told her her blood pressure had come down on it's own.  So who knows.  

And then a text from the NJ people - we are going to pay up to whatever is owed on Friday I think they said.  

And a phone call from someone wanting to come in late tonight.  Settled that and yet another person that wants to have 3 of them move into the park, which sets up a conundrum of what to do.  Cancel everything and hope they show up?  Or say no, I just have - I think 2 available.  I dunno, I told him I would call back tomorrow.  I need to look at everything and see who said they are only staying a short time.  There's 2 lots that are in that condition with one month stays but they are nowhere near having had been there a month yet.  I've got 3 empty lots, I think he said next week.  But they won't be empty next month for 3 days, running the same days, for 2 lots.  

Anyway, I'm tired and will just go into that tomorrow. 

 Monday - morning

Woke up to the door bell being rung incessantly. Ding dong- ding dong- ding dong.....etc.  I looked on the camera to see who it was, all I could see was a blue shirt standing in front of the camera.  I looked on the main camera and saw nothing out there.  I was half tempted to grab my pistol, who is this?  

I got up, went to the door and....it was Taylor's dad.  I had thought they had already left town, they had instead decided to see Taylor one last time before leaving for another family member that lives maybe 60 miles away.  

The weekend is over, busy as it was. The wedding was awesome, it was truly something to behold.  Emotion was running high in that room where it was being held, at the Elks Lodge to be precise.   They married at a discrete and hardly known get together with a JOP 10 years ago and now they were making up for the lack of a more proper event with all of their friends and family around.   Replete with a DJ playing their favorite types of music and people dancing, the night was grand and the atmosphere was energetic. 

Yesterday a bit more low key. The boys wanted to go to church, I didn't much feel like it but decided to take them anyway.  It was an interesting message. Straight back to the house after church - lots of taco fixing left over from the night before.  Over to the property, Taylor's dad was going to take an overhead video of the park with his drone.  Unfortunately, the drone wouldn't work.  Try as he might, the thing wouldn't come on. He finally got an error message about it being too hot.  

I left them to fiddle with that thing while I went back to the entrance back into the woods with a chain saw to cut down the felled trees from that big storm. It was so hot, it took it out of me. By the time I was almost done, they showed up in 2 vehicles.  I warned them of weeds, they didn't care and drove back there anyway.  They never got the drone running, which was disappointing. The trade off was to fire off the AR-15's and other firearms at our little shooting range replete with a 10 foot (at least) high berm to stop any rounds from going any further than the targets.  

After firing off the AR, shotgun, pistols, watching the boys being helped to fire off  a few different types of guns, one of Jame's friends showed up.  He pulled out a large cache of firearms and ammo, of which he offered me to shoot several of them.  I have to tell you, it is easy to see how an AR-15 can do so much damage at these mass shootings in such a short period of time. With 30 round magazines, you can inflict a lot of damage quickly. It's very easy to rapid-fire the things just pulling the trigger repeatedly and quickly. 

I'm not in agreement with banning them, I'm just saying it's massive fire power that can inflict serious damage in the wrong hands. However, the holes left behind with a 12 gauge shotgun using slugs is far superior to anything else we had out there. I don't much care to shoot them because of the recoil, but I did shoot mine and the other guy's 12 gauge off a few times.  

After that, we went home and then off to a local Mexican food restaurant to cap off the day and the vibrant weekend full of activities. It was like being on vacation without going out of town.  

I was feeling very sluggish this morning, if that door bell hadn't gone off I would have slept much longer, I do believe.  I'm going on a 3 day fast starting today.  I want to clean my system of toxins as much as possible and see if I can start feeling better than what I have been since getting sick.  I kind of cheated on it tho, I had some black coffee, no sugar and no cream.  That's it tho for the day.  I will be drinking water the rest of the day and then tomorrow, try to go without coffee at all. The problem is I will probably get bad headaches tomorrow afternoon for lack of caffeine.  

It is time to start filling out complete applications.  I have mostly just been filling out short versions of them that are found online.  But when you do that, they just send you emails saying you need to fill out a complete application.  Ok, what is the point of filling out the short version of it then?  Whatever.  I'm going to run over to the park, check everything out, clean the toilet and the shower stall and write down the infractions one certain lot of new people are committing and contact them.  They have too much stuff outside and it's now lining their driveway plus spilling over to the next lot. The next lot is currently empty.  They also parked their boat next to the shed in between the doggy park and shed without my permission. 

I don't want it there, thanks.  I have a huge parking area behind the shed where they had it, why they moved it over there is unknown. They are taking far too many liberties and it's time to reel them in.  They are closing in on a month's worth of occupancy.  It's just too cluttered and looks trashy.  It's kind of annoying, they have been living in an RV for along period of time, they know how RV parks operate, taking these kinds of liberties is a bit ridiculous.  

Anyway, now that I am awake, coffeed and feeling ok, it's time to get over there, get that stuff done and then come home and start the application process. And a process it is!  Just one application can take up to an hour depending on how much information they are wanting.