The rain last week, although welcome, threw me off schedule on a project, so that was me there today on the other side of the gate seen in the photo below. I know, it looks exactly like Cape Cod or Michigan, but it's actually South Texas, believe it or not.
The high point of the afternoon was finding this corner and realizing that there were about six different "monuments" that a surveyor might choose, depending.
It starts off easy. As you can see in the photo above, there are:
- a 1/2 in. Galvanized Iron Pipe (that I've thoughtfully flagged up),
- a 60d Nail with a scrap of old flagging tied to it (barely discernible in the photo), 0.62 ft. away from the pipe,
- a 7-inch Pole Post at the end of a wire fence, and
- a Steel Pipe Fence Post beside the Pole post.
So, if you like fences, you'd have been running around like a blind dog in a meat house upon seeing those four choices.
But wait, there's more:
Yes, there were at least two more fence corners to choose from, those of the 8 ft. high fences *behind* the 8 ft. high fences and the corner of the other 8 ft. high fence.
From one of those tracts, you'd have to climb *two* 8 ft. fences to get to that 1/2 in. pipe if for some reason you decided not to just flag up one of the pipe corner posts of the high fence and, in memory of the late Richard Schaut of Green Bay, Wisconsin, tell your client that their boundary had moved by virtue of their action of setting the high fence back from the boundary.