Friday - not so early/8:28 am
I dunno, I just decided last night I wasn't going to get up early today and true to that thought, I did not. I woke up early, but I went right back to sleep.
I got quite a bit done yesterday on that tractor but there's plenty more to go. I burned up that mound with the trees and shrubs on it, today I'm going to see if I can start shoveling it out of there. I also saw that that hole is definitely the storm drainage pipe underground that runs across the driveway near the entrance. It's broken to the point that you can see down into the pipe.
Since the county did such a poor job of fixing the roadway where it meets the driveway - all they did was dump some loose gravel on it which quickly move from the edge of the roadway and was rather useless - I took that gravel and dumped it into that hole until the hole was filled up. I just couldn't leave it like that. I also called the county and informed them that they need to come out and fix it. It's the county's problem, not mine. I've seen them fixing driveway entrances up and down the road, they can properly fix mine. I know I spent the money on property taxes....
I was reading in the Word this morning, book of John, about Jesus coming and his Love for all of us, starting with miracles to prove He was/is who He says He is. I know if I saw some of those miracles in person I would become an instant believer. Not that I am not one now, but how amazing it must have been to be in the presence of Jesus while he was walking this earth and healing people of incurable diseases and feeding large masses of people with nothing but a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish. It's easy to just say God doesn't exist, the internet is full of those people.
They deny Christ and attempt to mock God at every turn. I used to get upset about it, now I understand that these people are lost, do not have the Light and use science for the most part to explain everything away. They don't understand that God created science and man can choose to believe science or understand that it's all part of God's creation. Some of the blasphemy they engage in tho....They did that to Christ when they were about to execute him and hang Him on the cross. It's nothing new but it can be disturbing.
I had one 3 night stay show up yesterday - they decided to stay 4 nights for they were afraid the hurricane was going to stop them from being able to travel out of that area, somewhere on the coast. 2 more are actually showing up as well. This is all the Boogie Woogie festival and these people love it. I didn't open up enough spots for reservations, I could have had another one in there as well. I just hoped that I would get another long term in there. A guy did show up to see if he could park his 5th wheel there temporarily until he gets it sold. He lives up the street and wants to be able to have it plugged in to show everything works.
Well, since I have so many openings right now, I decided to let him do that and at a reduce rate for he won't be living in it, just showing it to any interested buyers. I'll take something over nothing. My ads aren't doing much, tho this guy showed up because he saw the ad. The new guy in town, the other RV park doing a grand reopening under a different name and ownership has flooded Marketplace with his ads. I have responded in kind and have put up a couple of different ads and run them in as many groups as FB allows. He doesn't have a better deal than me beyond the first month's rent, he is trying to meter the electricity and that is not going to fly with people who can find every other RV park in town giving the electricity away for "free", meaning included in the cost of the monthly rent.
In other words, he has his lot rent and then you pay electricity separate. He may get some people in there, I suppose, but as long as the other options are showing up on any given searches, he won't be taking everyone out of the picture coming into town. At this time of year, that may be a good deal and perhaps I could lower my rent since my expenses are going down just to get a piece of the pie. However, if I lower my rent and people in the park see it, they may demand lower rent as well. Rent prices are just a hard thing to determine, I think I have mine set as low as I'm willing to go. Now, if I had a lot more spaces, I could easily lower the rent rate, take in less profit per spot but with more spots still make decent money.
I think I'll get some gravel from the rear today, now that I think of it, and bring it up front and fill some of the small holes. It won't last long but it's better than nothing at all. I really need to go get a small amount of gravel from the local supplier - my trailer has a bunch of tree limbs and junk on it and it has been sitting there like that for 2 months. Yeah, not me. I am going to end up burning it even tho I didn't bring it here and just be done with it. It's loaded so high I wonder how he got away with pulling it down the road like that. I would imagine some of that stuff falling off the side. If I didn't have to worry about that, I would just drag it over to the property and burn it with everything else.
Oh, yes and I may get out the chainsaw today and start cutting up that felled tree at the front. Must have been hit by lightning. Actually, there's 2 of them, they are both huge trees. Just want to get that stuff done before that tractor is pulled out of there.
Nothing else really. I am going to Wally's world to see if they have any jeans my size. If not, I guess I'll have to drive to the next biggest city, much larger, and go find some clothing there. I've ruined a lot of my jeans with both trucking and working at the property. A couple pair of new jeans would be nice for the upcoming trip. I am thinking to stay until that Thursday and then drive out of there. 2 days to get home and then a recovery day before going back to work. That's 3 full days plus 2 partial to hang out with mom and see some friends and my son, probably go visit the house, etc.
With that, my second cuppa is almost done and I'm heading out of here.
G'day
