Building a Small RV Park - Year 2

[Deer Springs RV Park]

Love your toys!

lol, yeah, you don't own 50 acres and not have the tools necessary to maintain it.

 

[Jim]

Had a short but productive conversation with Senator Corbin yesterday morning, and then another brief meeting with one of his staff workers later in the afternoon. Will talk with them again on Monday morning about accessing some of the federal grant funds earmarked for the expansion of Internet services in rural areas. Hopefully some of these funds can be used to persuade one of the cell providers to install equipment on the cell tower (1-mile from the park) that’s been sitting unused for the last 10 years.

There is a large demand for these funds, and I never considered my chances to be very good, so I haven’t really pursued this direction. But after the recent Frontier fiasco, this looks to be the only shot we have left.

I'm thinking about sacrificing a chicken later in the day, so hopefully we’ll find favor with the Internet gods.

 

[Jim]

Decided to snub the Internet gods and make pizza instead! I bought a 16" pizza stone last week and we tossed it on the grill, cranked it up to 550* and let it heat up for 30 minutes.

In the meantime, I made up 5 small "mini pizzas". Tossed them on for 10 minutes, and then handed them out to Trish and my mother-in-law.

They came out great! I don't think I'll do the mini pizza thing again, unless someone wants a special pizza that has different (or less) toppings on it than the others.

 

[J&JD]

Looks scrumptious! Probably could have cranked it up a bit more even (650?). You are right as it’s as easy to make a large pizza as it is a small.
What a great setup you have there @Jim.

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

Pizza looks great - but where is the pineapple?

 

["EZ"]

Pizza looks great but I have a question about your TV. Does it not get wet when it rains? I know there's a roof but at MY HOUSE when it rains the wind blows and the TV would get soaked! How do you deal with that?

 

[Jim]

Pizza looks great but I have a question about your TV. Does it not get wet when it rains? I know there's a roof but at MY HOUSE when it rains the wind blows and the TV would get soaked! How do you deal with that?

It hasn't been a problem as of yet, EZ. But it's an old TV and if it gets trashed, not big deal. I'll cover it if necessary or maybe even buy an outdoors TV.

 

[Jim]

I noticed today that RVParky.com finally got around to adding Deer Springs RV Park to their listings. I've got some pictures uploaded, but there are no reviews yet. So maybe, if you've ever been here, could I impose upon you to make a quick (positive) reference?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jim]

So as of today, the death of my Internet plans is final. Just received the following email from our Frontier salesperson.

"Hello Jim, I received the results of the BDT/Fiber build costs from Frontier Engineering and they were $385,650. My guess is that is an expense that you can not justify. I wish things had not turned out this way and as I mentioned below-our tool that determines Frontier fiber availability had not been updated to reflect that the existing fiber cable had no available fiber strands.

You may want to try Elon Musk’s new satellite based Internet Starlink- Starlink . I know of some businesses in western, NC that have the service and seem to be happy with it. If you want to discuss any of this further-please feel free to call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX"

 

[Jabber Jaw]

So as of today, the death of my Internet plans is final. Just received the following email from our Frontier salesperson.

"Hello Jim, I received the results of the BDT/Fiber build costs from Frontier Engineering and they were $385,650. My guess is that is an expense that you can not justify. I wish things had not turned out this way and as I mentioned below-our tool that determines Frontier fiber availability had not been updated to reflect that the existing fiber cable had no available fiber strands.

You may want to try Elon Musk’s new satellite based Internet Starlink- Starlink . I know of some businesses in western, NC that have the service and seem to be happy with it. If you want to discuss any of this further-please feel free to call me at XXX-XXX-XXXX"

WOW! That would be the most expensive "Internet" connection in North Carolina!
Jim, I must say that you basically exhausted every resource!
Maybe "Starlink" could be a potential resource!
Good Luck!