Sunday - morning
Time change. I looked at the clock last night and realized I was losing an hour and it might as well be midnight versus the 11:00 pm it showed. So, I went to bed, waking up twice, but only for a few minutes and going right back to sleep. 9 hours of sleep.
Kids are leaving today, I will relish the lack of bickering, fighting, screaming, crying and all the rest of it. That isn't all they do, of course, but it's what stands out, especially when discussing having a whole week off from school, which basically started after school Friday and will continue on until next Monday morning. Instead of being here, doing that nonsense all day long, they are going to grandmas and grandpas, where they will be endlessly spoiled, but they will start their s*** anyway, lol.
I intend on doing nothing today, tho I will go to church, I mean nothing in terms of work. Tomorrow, I will go hook up the trailer, go to Lowe's, get the 20 foot 4x4 and post hole cement and then I will have to try and dig out a 4 foot deep post hole. It's a challenge in digging out such a hole in this kind of dirt with all those old roots from trees that are gone, but the roots are definitely still there.
The movies. Well, we went to see a movie 2 nights ago, we being the kids and I. We sat down in our usual place, the very top row. There were 2 large groups of teenagers, 1 on our right and 1 on the left. I figured there would be a problem once the movie started, I was not wrong.
They continue right on with loud talking, completely ignoring the movie and making everyone mad, after the movie started. To the point another group of people lower down yelled at them, "Y'ALL NEED TO CHILL OUT!" Who needs to chill out? the group of mouthy teens yelled back. YOU! Well, that was ignored, of course and they kept on disrupting the movie. I was tempted to tell them the same thing, but thought better of it. They would just mouth off to me as they had the others.
Instead, I went to the lobby, found a group of employees, asked for the manager. The lady said yes, can I help you? Yes, these teens in the theater are talking, making all kinds of noise, using their phones to do a strobe light type of thing, it's ridiculous.
I went back into the theater and several minutes later, an employee came in and said something to both groups in such low tones I couldn't hear what they said. Yea, that didn't work either. There was a surprise coming, tho, once that I did not expect at all. A couple of minutes after that, a cop came in there, stood against the wall in plain view and - just stood there.
All of the noise, flashing lights and mouthiness completely stopped. That officer stood there the entire movie and not a further peep out of those kids. I dunno, but I kind of think if they are going to let teens in without adult supervision, they need to have an employee monitoring them. Whatever the case, I thanked the officer who had moved to the lobby after the movie was over - we just waited until everyone left before we got up - and he just nodded his head and said anything to help!
Sort of recapping Friday night, Saturday and now into Sunday. My empty long term spots are, amazingly, being kept relatively filled up with overnighters, 2 nighters, etc. If it could only stay that way, I wouldn't bother with long term at all. Far more money to be made with short term stays if you can keep them coming. I did have a person call me yesterday - she called from her car sitting in front of my amenities shed - asking about a lot? After the conversation was done, she said she'd be "calling you back".
She never did. I'm having trouble getting long term in there right now, no idea why but whatever. They'll come eventually, just hopefully not too long. The railroad guy said in a month he'd be coming back after his vacation, but I need a couple of long term, well at least one, now.
Well, looks like almost time to get ready for church. No kids this week, they didn't go last week cause I was working and they probably won't be going next week either for I will likely be working as well. I kind of don't like getting them started on something like that and then they are not being able to go for weeks' stretch at a time. But, whatever, life dictates how things work out, schedules are nice but they are often times interrupted with reality.
