I was looking at the camera for several hours this morning - Mark's lot is clearly visible. He was out there with his buddy. They put in the slide outs, unhooked the water hose, sewer line and the electrical line. It was about an hour later and he was gone.  Shortly after that, the lady he was calling a slut, cu** and other lovely names sent a video of it.  

It is a liberating feeling to force him out of there and be rid of him. Whatever the aftermath is with other guests who liked him, it is what it will be. I hated going to the park with him being there, honestly, because the first thing he'd do is come over, start calling me an ass****, a grumpy old man and interrupting anything I tried to say to him.  I had had it out with him numerous times and was done with him as it was, but finding out he was harassing this lady to the point of calling her foul names was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Now I can go over there and not be bothered by this shell of a man. I actually feel sorry for him, for he has no clue, apparently, how abhorrent his behavior is.  I told him, trust me, I told him several times over but it never sunk in.  He had plenty of chances to straighten up his act, he was getting too drunk, too often and that was and is that. He is gone and I will never have him back there. His lot is now available and I already have an overnighter coming in tonight, I had to turn another one away unfortunately, I only have that one lot available for overnighters.  

It may change if Mark was trash talking me as I have heard he was and had an effect on the handful of partiers that liked him.  It won't be shocking to me if, when their rent is due, they up and move to wherever he went. However, his work is far from my park and it isn't likely that people will want to move so far away just to - be near him or spite me or both?  No clue.  I just prepare myself for whatever may come, maybe nothing will happen and everyone will stay. 

As I said in a previous post, I have nothing against anyone else there. I haven't had the kinds of problems with anyone else as I have had with Mark, unless you consider the guy that beat the s*** out of Mark a problem.  I don't think he is, but I haven't had a chance to talk to him. He was home when I got back from my run, he took off before I could go over to his trailer.  I do want to his side of the story, highly unlikely I will do anything, highly likely Mark started it by mouthing off to him in a drunken stupor.

Mark claimed that some of the guys were sick of him, but he doesn't really hang out with those people. I think Mark was shooting off at the mouth yet once again. 

Now then, we had the birthday party today for the 8 turning 9 year old.  Just cause' it's easier to have birthday parties on the weekend and the actual birthday is on Monday - school restarts after 2-1/2 weeks off. Still astounding to me that a school would have kids off that much time for any holiday break.  It's got to be hard for the kids to get their minds back into school mode after having that much time off.  It was fun, lots of cake, money and gifts to the kid and a bunch of people came over to celebrate it. 

As for me, tomorrow - Sunday - work, Monday, work, Tuesday off, Wednesday and Thursday - work and after that? No idea, but I want Sunday off.  If I miss one weekend, I'm getting the next off.  It's non-negotiable and I've let them know this in no uncertain terms.  As for all of these new viewers that showed up out of the blue? Apparently they left as quickly as they showed up, lol.  Kind of strange.  

Tuesday I'm going to have to assess my pipes and get covered back up any of them where the insulation has come off. It will likely be  along day.  Friday slated to be 22 degrees low overnight, that's getting into hard freeze territory.  I'm thinking re-cover the pipes where it's come off and then potentially just get 5 gallon buckets to turn upside down over top of the pipes. They don't stick out of the ground that much, a bucket would help keep the frost off at least.  

What I'm worried about, however, is this polar vortex situation and the idea that the jetstream holding it back over Canada is going to buckle and allow it to move into the US, including southern states.  You get down into single digit territory and you have a real threat of frozen, burst pipes without serious and even drastic measures being taken.  In this case? I would likely turn off the water to the park, drain the water out and not have to worry about it.  Fire it back up the next morning after the temps rise.  I haven't seen any forecast for anything that low - yet - they were saying about a week and a half and we'll see what's going to happen. 

My water meter is down low, at the bottom of the hill, the water in the park would naturally drain back down to it and if there is no water pressure and no water in the pipes, there is nothing to cause the pipes to burst.  

Ok. It's bedtime, up early even tho I know I'm not going to want to work tomorrow.