Maybe 3 hours round trip this morning, was back by 11:15 am.  That done I headed over to a local Mexican food restaurant for some of their excellent Birria tacos, so delicious.  

 Unfortunately, no new calls for a lot.  I turned one away as I stated previously because the "purple people" were supposed to come and didn't cancel out until evening time of the day they were supposed to show.  Live and learn.  People want a lot that bad? They can give a deposit for it.  

Anyway, we met up with some other families tonight for a Halloween candy fest (otherwise known as trick-or-treating).  We went to a neighborhood known for the large amount of houses that give out candy. This year? No so great.  I wasn't a total bust, but there wasn't even half the number of houses giving out candy and it was a good thing we were sitting in the back of the pickup, there were many areas with long walks in between. 

The boy that was mauled by a large dog on Friday?  I'm standing on the street watching him run down a concrete driveway and fall flat on his face.  Bloody nose, bloody lips, this boy is having a bad streak of luck going here. He got over it pretty quick, took a minute.  As it was, I had to help him on and off the truck, he still can climb onto things without extreme pain.  

We left that neighborhood, went over to one of James' friends' house who loaded up the boy's buckets with a lot of candy. After that, we went to see the baby. I hadn't seen it in person yet, but I got to hold him for a while.  Taylor had just breast fed him so he was sleeping.  I tried to talk to him, I know that boy has been listening to my voice for 9 months lol.  I talked to him a lot through the belly.  He didn't wake up for me - or anyone really - he was pretty content after that breast milk.  

They gave the boys even more candy and then I took them across the street for people who were basically done for the night and also gave them handfuls of candy as well.  So, even with the dismal results at the first neighborhood, they ended up with quite a lot of candy.  

Home and everything done and over with.  

It's gotten pretty cold here.  I mean, we just walked right out of summer and straight into winter?  The trees haven't even dropped their leaves yet.  They either know something we don't or they are also caught by surprise.  It's like we skipped fall.  

I haven't seen my personal checking account this low in years, lol.  I "think" I'm getting paid tonight, but in case I'm not, I just deposited a paycheck from the business account.  I have a lot of money to collect as well, I didn't get to that today but tomorrow I'm going around to whoever's home to get I think 4 of them.  And more coming the first few weeks of the month before the electric bill is due.  

Anyway, it's been a rather long day and I'm done for the night.  

 Just a fast one here, I'm on my way out the door.

Okay, not such a big hurry.  Yesterday was just go up to El Dorado, switch trucks and come back.  They wanted me to take the trailer to a washout up there - sorry, didn't bring the trailer.  Switch trucks, not trailers. They can have the trailer if they want it, they didn't say anything about that.

So, this morning, leaving in a few minutes actually, take the trailer to the washout in Nacogdoches.  It's 80 miles each way and that's it for the day. Leave the trailer there, I don't have to bring it back.  That's nice, that trailer is a pile of garbage. Someone totally trashed the passenger side of it, ran it into something.  It looks ugly.  

I think I have rents to collect today, that will be high on the list as well as inspecting the grass seed and seeing if anything is popping up. Probably too soon, but who knows.  It's been raining quite a bit, the rain is over.  I will probably go buy a few more bags and overseed a bit in hopes the morning dew will water it enough to make it grow.  It's cold out in the mornings and cool in the afternoons. That seed won't be drying up. 

These people in the purple rv that were going to come back? Screwed me over royally.  They wanted to move in, kept contacting me so I finally got a space for them to give them.  In the meantime, I had to turn down an overnighter and a long term.  So what did they do? Cancel. The overnighter and the long term are gone, history, will never hear from them again.  Those purple people are never coming back to my park and I am seriously considering charging a $100 non-refundable reservation fee for long term.  You cancel? You lose your $100. 

I've had this happen a few times - this is all a learning experience.  I have 15 trailers in there out of 16 spots available.  I want 16.  I would have had 16 if it weren't for these people. They texted me late yesterday - the day they were supposed to move in - telling me they had "changed our plans". Well you wouldn't change your plans so easily at MY EXPENSE if you had to pay something to reserve that spot.  It'd be another month's worth of lot rent in my hands right now, not an empty spot.  It just irritates me people do this stuff and I understand why many RV parks require a deposit.  Some RV parks make anyone reserving for 2 or more days to pay it all up front. I make them pay a day up front and depending on my mood if it's refundable.  In ink, it's non-refundable.  

The thing is, there are people leaving soon and so I will have empty spots.  You fill up all the spots, sure you don't have anything for overnighters but it won't stay that way for long.  

Well anyway, I want to leave and get this over with and have the afternoon available for work at the park.  I am told there isn't much to do this week because of that plant shut down.  Mixed feelings.  Love not working, don't love not getting a paycheck.

G'day