man, was it nice. I mean, the job itself was kinda tedious (as-builting office space)- but without a phone call, text, or email from a party chief or a coworker or a client every five minutes... not to mention almost zero traffic (save from fedex and ups) or parked cars on site... it was one of those days that was quantifiable in its rewards. Plus there's the walkin around outside all day, with an office complex pretty much to yourself.
I worked this am in my nicely air conditioned office. It was up to 85°F @ noon and hit 98°F at 3pm. I was working on a partition application and
along with the Burden of Proof document.
Let's remember all the sacrifices that have brought us to such a time as this.
Have a safe and wonderful Fourth!!
Scott
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I worked in the field for about an hour and a half locating a building pad and tying into a boundary I did back in 2008 for a 10 acre partition out of a 30 acre parcel. I finished just before the rain moved in. Got back to the office, got the ATV unloaded and put away, trailer unloaded, and truck unloaded, and then went to deliver some paperwork, got PAID! Had lunch with the wife, and took it easy the rest of the day.
I spent half a day doing a weekly subsidence monitoring, then put in a few hours at an ALTA site. A leisurely lunch, then back to the office to download and do a little drafting. Knocked off early, but I'll pick away at both projects over the weekend.
Worked all day. Had fun with a survey this afternoon. Grandpa owns the land but is semi-senile so daughter #2 acts as his guardian. Granddaughter (daughter of #2 daughter) and her family live in Grandpa's house on more than 160 acres.
Meet with daughter #2. She says do it like this.
Meet with granddaughter. She says do it this other way. BIG DIFFERENCE.
We shot it both ways plus a third option that would be a possible compromise no one mentioned leaving 60d nails all over the place. Going to toss it all into the air and see how it lands once I explain the differences between the three plans to both daughter #2 and granddaughter. I think there are 22 60d nails strung around of which some number will be pulled and not replaced with bars. Just don't know which ones.
I have a feeling daughter #1 and daughter #3 will have significant influence to make sure their niece isn't getting something their own kids are not.
We have no big plans for the Fourth so I will probably spend much of the weekend working on seven final plats plus the preliminary work on the job mentioned here.
Put in a full day hacking my way through cow parsnip and stinging nettles setting up sight lines to monument a subdivision. It was a long hot day. Looking forward to quiet and laid back 4th.
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Went and staked a house footing first thing and then went back to a job I'm having trouble finding corners on. Then home for lunch and mowed grass so I don't have to do it on the 4th.
Happy Birthday Merka.
Brad Ott, post: 325756, member: 197 wrote: Happy Birthday Merka.
And in that patriotic theme, I ask you all to rise and remove your hats:
Star Spangled Banner
As today is the 4th, nope, am taking it easy. Happy 4th to one and all.
Yesterday I had a stellar day, to make up for taking Thursday off due to a flareup of anal glaucoma.
3800 l.f. of traverse, found two monuments that have not been recovered in over 40 years, disproved a conflict with an existing subdivision based on the same company's work. I have no idea about their opinion, as they have not deemed to answer my calls for two weeks.
Apparently back in the day of real field crews, when the subdivision was created, they used the original monuments. At both ends of the subject property, they set corners three years ago. They are in conflict with their own subdivision, to the tune of about 8 feet overlap.
It took over 45 minutes of digging and poking at each location to find two cement monuments buried about 18" below fill material, no metal therefore no signal.
All of this under heavy canopy, so GPS was a no go. Saw three massive moccasins, all sunning themselves far away from where I was working. They have free range to a stocked pond and were all big boys, kept me on my toes.
At the end of the day had a massive heat induced headache, had run through 4 liters of water over the course of the day, was showered, fed, bed and asleep by 9:30.
Today's the Fourth. So far I've just been wasting my time exploring and reporting on the history of Wheeless, Oklahoma and the surrounding area. Very relaxing, though.
