You could always use polenta.?ÿ Then you'd have "foreign" food for both in the dish. Andy

I can tell you one way NOT to handle it.?ÿ We were staking the back property corners of a subdivision (true lining) when we hit about 3 inches into a ...

@holy-cow That's what corn cobs are for. Andy

It's even better (?) when someone sets more permanent control points for you.?ÿ About 40 years ago we had cut out all the lines and set hubs and tacks...

My wife continues to work (she's a Nurse Practitioner) and I'll continue my one day a week observation of silt and erosion control projects.?ÿ Luckily...

For years, "Bearings based on one magnetic observation and turned angles."?ÿ Find any two adjacent monuments and rotate to the called bearing.?ÿ You s...

@just-a-surveyor Yes it had all the rings.  I downloaded an owner's manual for the A5 to make sure I was putting the rings in the correct locatio...

I found a nap or exercise during lunch hour were equally invigorating.?ÿ Our office was next door to a pool so I used to swim for 30 minutes every day...

Well Dang.?ÿ I just sold a 12 gauge Browning A5 for $350.?ÿ That was $200 more than I paid for it 40 years ago.?ÿ Working on heavy construction sites ...

@mightymoe That picture reminded me of the Chevette, another hunk of junk.  We had an instrument man one time whose wife drove a Chevette.  ...

@john-nolton Thanks.  After 40+ years I do forget (or muddle) things.  The last one I ran (DKM2AE) was in the 1980s and it WAS green. Andy

@daniel-ralph It looks too small (I can't really tell from the photo) to be a T-2 but certainly they would need the added precision for sighting at th...

Never had problems with livestock but I got chewed BIG TIME while staking for construction in a paper mill.?ÿ Staking lines or corners I marked up the...

@holy-cow I know what you mean.  I can't remember the movie but as the hero was leaving Galveston he was headed toward the mountains on the horiz...

@thebionicman Been there, done that. Andy

I used to keep a tree identification book in my truck all the time.?ÿ As an aside, I was extending an existing street and pulled the old field books f...

That's pretty bad. (groan) Andy

@john-putnam All of the Georgia State Park campgrounds are open.  We went camping at one this past weekend.  It was full of families with ch...