@flga-2 I'll trade you Gum Trees for the Sycamores.?ÿ Stepping on a gum ball barefoot can make a fellow say bad words. Andy

@holy-cow Yeah, I took out a loan from my bank to buy that first HP.?ÿ Of course I was still a full time student and part time surveyor at the time.?ÿ...

@holy-cow My first calculator had add, subtract, multiply, divide and a constant key.?ÿ No memory.?ÿ I drafted a plat in exchange for it.?ÿ It sure ma...

@paden-cash Back when doubled angles I had to make myself NOT double the angle in my head and therefore affect how I read the vernier. Andy

Somewhere in a box in the attic I have my old slide rule.?ÿ I can probably use the C, CI and D scales but that's about it.?ÿ I had to take a quarter l...

@flyin-solo We're looking at 40+ years ago, but when I applied for the LSIT I was rejected because all my experience was with one company.?ÿ That comp...

@squirl My first truck (1948 Ford) had vacuum controlled windshield wipers.?ÿ They would speed up when you took your foot off the accelerator. Andy

@daniel-ralph Once upon a time, when I was a field engineer, I had a formula stuck in my head for calculating the weight per foot for rebar.?ÿ Somethi...

@dave-lindell You're showing your age.?ÿ I remember that commercial too. Andy

DON'T let the dog out. Andy

@flga-2 Or a target. ?ÿ

@jitterboogie Almost all of my bass lures are bigger than that fish. ?ÿ

My favorite was when Newgene (Newgene was some more bad a while) snuck in the church and replaced the communion wine with green persimmon wine.?ÿ They...

@holy-cow Completely different but in 1955 they filmed a movie on my grandfather's farm, "Goodbye My Lady".?ÿ They paid my grandfather $50 per day NOT...

Having grown up on a farm where we grew watermelons (among other things) I have probably eaten a couple of tons myself.?ÿ When we harvested we put asi...

My sister has one that I'd love to have.?ÿ It's a quail whistle. Andy

@holy-cow "Trespassers will be shot, Survivors will be shot again". I have whitewater rafted the Chattooga River where Deliverance was filmed.?ÿ One ...

As Holy Cow said there are many variations in rights of way.?ÿ They may be asymmetrical (more on one side than the other), intersections may have beve...