Our most regular (or irregular) posters

Kent hasn't posted in a few years and he is still near the top of the list. Dave Karoly has been absent for awhile.

Kent was always quick to address posts he felt contained either error, poor judgement or stupidity...meaning any post that wasn't his.?ÿ

I'm sure this was just his nature and not any attempt to reach the posting tally 'top of the heap'.?ÿ I might point out I once read a report Kent produced concerning a resurvey he performed on a small four sided subdivision lot platted around 1960...It had almost 30 pages.

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If seven posters made comments on something he said he would create seven posts so that he could call each poster out individually for being "a xxxcxx sitting in a corner" or some such method of showing them how incompetent they were.?ÿ I tried to not "poke the bear" as I knew no matter what I said I would be wrong.?ÿ I recall calling him out once for being foolish about climbing an 8-foot fence with wild critters on the inside with no one around to aid him should the situation turn ugly.?ÿ He did not take that well.

He did add a lot of flavor to the board, though.?ÿ Most of what he espoused was sound surveying practice.

Dave Karoly must be up to his neck in field work these days considering all the California wildfires in recent times.

Kent retired, so I don't expect we'll see him much, if at all.

Posted by: @wendell

Kent retired

You wouldn't think that from all the Facebook posts he's been making regarding his current projects.

@jim-frame

Oh, interesting.

What surveying posts??ÿ All I found was a discussion about possibly dying his mustache blue.

They all seem to be today KM projects, thorny boundary retirements from the 19th century, often in litigation.

i'm not sure what kent is up to lately, as he stopped calling me.?ÿ he offered/asked if i wanted some of his "in town" work, which i didn't/couldn't/etc, but referred him to a good friend of mine who likes those kinds of jobs (residential titles).?ÿ friend of mine is as conscientious a surveyor as you'll find.?ÿ so he does a job or two- and, mind you, these aren't the standard jobs where all your contact is through the escrow officer or the title company in some larger sense, but instead from the buyer or seller directly.?ÿ comes to me one day with "you have to see this" and it's the survey he did, emailed back to him, and it looks like somebody had opened their wrist all over it.?ÿ redlines like you've seen anywhere, let alone on a lot and block survey.

and it was akin to what paden has so succinctly described- exam question type analysis of the boundary of a rectangular house lot with four found pipes.?ÿ and fit well within reason.?ÿ mike told the client to take it or leave it, he stood on his survey.?ÿ and, i guess, that her referring consultant could go find a short pier.?ÿ?ÿ

guess i'm guilty by association.?ÿ haven't heard a peep from him since.

@paden-cash
I tread the same ground as Mr. McMillan.?ÿ I have read some of his survey reports and also have copies of several of his surveys and they are truly works of art, indicating the thoroughness of his research.?ÿ There are some in this locale that sometime question his opinions.?ÿ Speaking of art, before they moved the courthouse records from downtown San Marcos, TX to the "new" administration building, there was a pencil/pen sketch of a gazebo on a town square signed by K. McMillan that was on the wall behind the clerks' desk.?ÿ It was actually quite a good sketch.?ÿ Kent appeared to follow some of the field practices of Mr. Charles Swart, another local surveyor in Hays County, TX (& Bozeman MT).?ÿ Kent would set 3-inch bronze tablets with punchmarks on them.?ÿ I think he has semi-retired and only takes jobs he wants to.?ÿ I was traveling down Ranch Road 150 in Hays County, just south of the town of Driftwood, a couple of years back, and as I crossed a low-water crossing over Onion Creek (in the Wm. Barret Travis League-the commander of the Texican forces at the Alamo) I saw a man, standing at the edge of the water, staring into the trees adjoining a job I had done a year before.?ÿ I have never met Kent, but know his face from his profile picture, and I would swear the man I saw was Kent McMillan, looking for bearing trees.?ÿ If I had not been moving my possessions, and did not have a trailer on the back of my truck, I would have pulled over and introduced myself.

@bryan-newsome

bryan, that sketch was behind the copier.?ÿ at least for several years.?ÿ i only know because i was designated copy monkey back then.?ÿ same era as ms. lillie and frankenberry up in georgetown...

Lillie Hargett- quite possibly the greatest county clerk employee in the history of the state of Texas.?ÿ well, that's my opinion anyway:?ÿ https://www.dignitymemorial.com/fr-ca/obituaries/georgetown-tx/lillie-hargett-4748278

@bryan-newsome

Kent and I took opposing corners frequently with our on-line opines.?ÿ It stems from our proximity to the Rio Roxo. In reality Kent and I have remained good friends over the years.?ÿ I consider myself his worst critic and his best friend.

I told him once if I was trying to follow his work I would praise his notes and fastidious approach...but if I worked with him I would probably strangle him before noon.?ÿ ;)?ÿ

Okay, guys, we're going to need to clean up our jokes.?ÿ I see we have a new lady posting who isn't as familiar with this gang of crude guys as Angel is.