@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 ...

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 ...

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...

@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 ...