Monday - early

Day 7 of consecutive days working, it will be a typical Monday today if the weather continues, which it appears it will. It's raining and slated to rain much of the day both here and up in Gurdon.  So, yes, I will probably get wet.  At least I have an umbrella and definitely taking an extra pair of socks today.  I don't much care to have to be moving around in wet feet, even less so when I get done and have to sit in a truck for 2 hours and 15 minutes driving back.

Tomorrow is off and then back to work Wednesday and Thursday. After that, there isn't anything in the system so I dunno about the weekend excepting I will definitely be wanting Sunday off. 

I don't have much to say this morning, mostly because I am still in a walking daze - I slept hard - and because I am facing the rain in a few minutes.  Just going to make the best of it : )

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Somehow, this post didn't get posted. So, here we are Monday night.  Rained most of the day, it was cold in Arkansas, cold wet and raining off and on.  The glue was sitting at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it took quite a bit of time to get it off the truck.  The driver that trained me showed up - he was over 4 hours early. He didn't realize he had been given the afternoon load.  

I dunno, I just got it done and got out of there. There were hardly any logging trucks, I would guess mud stopping them from accessing the areas where the logging operations are going on to get loaded and bring it in.  The 9 year old basically had a second birthday party today, today being his actual birthday. He wanted go to In Japan, a rather pricey - but excellent - local Japanese food restaurant replete with 6 separate Hibachi grills. You sit at a table around the grills and the chef does all kinds of amazing tricks with his spatulas and throwing food into your mouth. The kids loved it, it was really a great show for everyone.  This is what birthday boy wanted - parents gave it to him for they said " you can go anywhere in town you want to".

Mark - called last night but only let it ring 3 times before hanging up. I was in the other room and ran to get the phone.  I assume he read the two text messages I had sent in response to his message before that.  It's not like I was going to back down on the phone, I have had these conversations with him to his face.  

I don't know what's going on with the guy that had brain surgery, but I think his dad must be there with him for his vehicle has been gone for a while now . The friend is still there and working.  

I was hoping to get a few travelers in on open lots while they are - open, but I guess it's just not traveling season right now.  There was a lake on one of the pull through lots, the water was pooled up a good 40 feet.  The pipe was clogged with growing grass, of all things.  I hadn't noticed it before.  I cleared that out of there and left after I got back.  

The situation with the weather is what has me going now.  It's supposed to snow on Monday with 14 degree low temp.  That's definitely hard freeze territory and I will be getting more pipe insulation tomorrow and getting everything up to snuff.  I will have to put a note at everyone's door - I have decided to leave the water on and hope that people will follow directions and let water drip overnight.  

It's in the camper's own best interests to do so, their un-winterized trailers can also experience significant damage if they don't take steps to mitigate the event.  I will be buying a couple of short sticks of pipe and fittings to deal with any damage that may occur, just in case type of stuff that I don't want to be caught last minute trying to find the parts to fix anything with.  1 inch line, 1 inch fittings, some adapters and fresh primer and glue.  I may also buy buckets to put upside down over every spigot outlet.  

Speaking of water, we are near the end of a days long water problem with the city's transmission lines that sprung several leaks.  Water pressure was down city wide, including our house and the park.  Old lines, they just keep patching them up instead of dealing with the real problem: the entire system needs replaced. We're coming to that 14 degree night and I would be willing to bet money that leaks will pop up all over the city. It happens every single year.  

They cancelled school today because of it.  The kids have been out of school for 19 days I think?  It's time to get back to the books, which thankfully they are tomorrow.   

Well enough I guess.  As with all aircraft disasters, I have been watching the 737 MAX incident with interest.  The latest coming out now is that United started inspections on their fleet of MAX aircraft and found "loose hardware" on the door plugs, referencing the door plug in question that blew out on the Delta aircraft. This doesn't look particularly good for Boeing.  This follows the previous disasters with these particular aircraft and sensor malfunctions that caused 2 of the aircraft to nose dive into the ground, killing everyone on board.  

Any particular plane that gets that much negative attention eventually gets canned, just look at the MD DC-10 and it's fate after several crashes.  Fortunately in this case, no one was killed or severely injured.  

And with that, I bid you a good night. I am going to relax in bed, watch a little tv and doze off. Probably not get up too early tomorrow since I've been doing that 7 days in a row, but I definitely have an agenda that I must get done with making sure that all water outlets in the park are insulation and dealt with.  I will need to leave some water dripping in the shed on the hard freeze night as well, now that I think of it. I do have a heater in the keeping it at a constant 68 degrees, but that doesn't mean the pipes situated right next to metal walls are going to be covered by that heat.  I doubt it.  I can turn the sink water on a drip and that will keep all of it moving along.  I just have that water heater out in the shed I need to think about.  Those pipes are inside structures, but definitely susceptible to the cold.  

It really slipped my mind the shed. There isn't a lot I will have to do, but it needs to be done. 

Okay, I keep going here, lol. I am also considering getting a truckload of driveway gravel delivered and they can just dump it in a heap where I can use it.  Or not?  I dunno, I'm just trying to keep this place running here. I'm facing that property tax bill so the gravel is kind of out of the question, yet the driveway desperately needs it in numerous spots.  

I'm stopping now before I start writing a book.

G'nite.