My wife was doing a review with our insurance broker this morning, and she needed an updated list of equipment. I took everything out of the car piece by piece, listed it, and then composed a nice photograph. Nothing like a photograph to cover the big stuff and little. Hopefully we won't need it, but just in case. You may remember last year I did that with everything in and around the house, and I do mean everything, sock drawer included. A copy went to my daughter in Oklahoma, my daughter in Maine, and my sister-in-law in California. That should cover it.
3 sombrero's?
Si. The larger Tilley for serious sun protection in the summer, a regular brimmed hat for normal GPS surveying at other times of the year, and a slouch hat for when I'm using the reflectorless.
Extra pocket tape, 100' cloth tape, pliers, and hammer under the seat for when I put one down and forget to pick it up. Not shown is the cardboard box full of craft sticks and wood squares, all sprayed pink as reflectorless targets, which I leave behind by the gross. Not intentionally, but I do.
Man Bruce, you travel light!
I carry three times as much equipment, but I do a very wide variety of work in a weeks time.
Thanks for the reminder. I am about to outfit my new truck, so it will be a great time to make an inventory list for my equipment insurance.
> I took everything out of the car piece by piece
Nice inventory, and thanks for the reminder. Mine is due soon. Guns too for all you gun owners, never hurts to archive photos.
The troubling part is the reference to "you took the stuff out of the car". Must be one of those newfangled MRAP cars from DOD, because I always needed a truck. Is this some kind of special Kia, or maybe even a Mercedes SUV. Ok, a Ford Focus station wagon or AWD Subaru wagon.
looks like it's gonna finally dry up for a spell, eh Bruce (& other 'zonians). Soggy doggies here and hear you guys got hammered from old Norton. Around here it just makes the damn weeds keep growing, the spiders want to come inside (not to mention la' coocaracha). Active and hungry snakes are next before they hunker down for the winter in 2 months, hopefully with full bellies.
Wayne,
I think Bruce surveys out of his Camero.
Jimmy
Cars, weeds, and toads
2000 maroon Camaro. Before that it was a red Firebird, and before that it was a blue Camaro. I've never owned a truck. Notice that all three vehicles have a big hatchback. Very convenient. Note: My car is a work vehicle. It is all dinged and scraped, and the sides have desert pinstripes from driving through creosote and cactus. That's just the way it is.
Don't talk to me about those weeds. I pay good money to have the yard sprayed twice a year, but the last guy seemed to have skipped a lot of places. For those of you not familiar with our monsoon season, a combination of soaking rain and high heat means the word is out among the weeds: Now, now, now, do it now. They come up literally half a foot every day. The ground is too wet to scrape so they have the field to themselves and they take every advantage of it. Turn your back and they are waist high by the weekend. I'm serious. Which is why I paid to have the yard sprayed! Fat lot of good that did.
Then there are the extremely poisonous Colorado River toads. They spend the winter underground in a cocoon and come out in droves when the monsoon hits. We had two in the pool yesterday. They probably thought they had found the biggest water puddle of all time and were ready for mating. Several years ago I took a big one a block away and turned him loose. That night I heard him croaking as he came back up the street, closer and closer. He went around the house, climbed the wall, and was back in the pool.
Cars, weeds, and toads
> 2000 maroon Camaro.
> Don't talk to me about those weeds. I pay good money to have the yard sprayed twice a year, but the last guy seemed to have skipped a lot of places. For those of you not familiar with our monsoon season, a combination of soaking rain and high heat means the word is out among the weeds: Now, now, now, do it now. They come up literally half a foot every day. The ground is too wet to scrape so they have the field to themselves and they take every advantage of it. Turn your back and they are waist high by the weekend. I'm serious. Which is why I paid to have the yard sprayed! Fat lot of good that did.
My first brand new car was a maroon Camaro, only it was a 1980. I was on top of the world, and it had that new car smell. Love it. I could likely use a front wheel drive car too, but my trucks have always been kind of a mobile shed for all the little stuff.
All, if you don't think Bruce is spot on right about those damn weeds - come on over. Half a foot a day is real close. Bring your lawn mower. I'll get mine done again tomorrow, hopefully last time until winter. First time ever I had to mow for the 4th time (in my 11 yrs in AZ - MI was twice a week). Usually in May, and maybe in Nov. I should get a few goats and rent them out to people. Just put them on a 15' chain and let be like circle irrigation farmers, only opposite. Next drought, I could eat one and sell the others.
Where is the glass?
I see the one mini-prism (which one of my old crew members called the most valuable piece of equipment on the truck), but where is the rest of the glass? Those 360 degree prisms aren't cheap.
