@holy-cow That's why I choose to buy most of our meat from local farm/butchers.?ÿ The quality is better and the price, while still not cheap, is paid ...

It wasn't just a "Company Store" though.?ÿ I did some work in a Mill Village where every home had been owned by the Company (dang Carpetbaggers (grin)...

As a diabetic my doctors stress the need for foot care.?ÿ My wife even got me to go with her for a pedicure.?ÿ I have no problem with them trimming my...

The engineering firm for whom I worked was originally located in an antebellum "mansion" in Marietta, Ga.?ÿ Most of Marietta was destroyed or housing ...

@holy-cow I did not know that.?ÿ I do know that was from not too far from my hometown.?ÿ?ÿ Andy

Y'all are bringing back my childhood.?ÿ The children of today don't even know what they're missing.?ÿ But then again we wouldn't want to make them vio...

Arithmetic takes over.?ÿ I got a set of sanitary sewer plans to stake one time that had the invert elevations to the thousandth of a foot and the per ...

@rplumb314 We used Georgia DOT standards and designed for the 25 years storm.?ÿ We almost never used grated inlets because they plug so easily.?ÿ A li...

Several years ago we did a widening design for a State Route.?ÿ The plans (both construction and right-of-way) called for 50 feet from centerline.?ÿ R...

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.?ÿ Enjoy all the goodies and then get some rest.?ÿ We have already started the preparations for delivery to my daugh...

@spmpls That reminds me of a story about a fellow surveyor doing percolation tests back in the 1970s.?ÿ An inspector in a nearby county was VERY stric...

I have, but only when I'm far from "civilization".?ÿ People get nervous (rightfully so in my opinion) when they see a stranger wearing a sidearm and c...

I don't know if this applies anywhere else but here in the Southeast but:?ÿ "You should have no problem surveying it, we had the pulpwood removed two ...

@dougie That is probably my wife's favorite song.?ÿ When the first three notes are played she stops to listen.?ÿ Yes was the first concert we saw afte...

Back when we were designing "by hand" we had a set of templates (by scale) for passenger cars, package trucks and tractor trailers.?ÿ We would literal...

@mathteacher And I'm headed to the first NASCAR roundabout in February.?ÿ My wife and I love NASCAR racing, even if it ain't as good as it used to be....

A friend of my father had a couple of "oriental" persimmons that had fruit the size of a baseball.?ÿ The 'possums in the neighborhood thought they had...

That reminds of one my father told me.?ÿ There was a young lady in his high school who only had one boob.?ÿ It was in the middle of her back.?ÿ He sai...

@holy-cow Luckily Georgia has the GSCCA, the Georgia Superior Court Clerks Cooperative Authority.?ÿ Every document recorded has a fee charged ($1?) wh...