Maybe one inch, sort of twisted into the ground.

The swimming lessons had to be at a city pool as there is no school district with a pool within 80 miles of where I grew up. For many farm kids, the ...

Professionsals only provide professional service. Setting approximate corners is not a professional service.

A simple way to get Wendell's attention is to use this: @Wendell

It could be far worse. Some joker called me one day to report he was doing topo work on a site that I had worked on a few years prior. He pompously t...

We have an addition to the largest city in the county that is bizarre. The plat was all signed off in the 1800's. Several years later a major portio...

Walking on crusty snow one minute. One leg and part of the torso wedged into where a power pole had been the next. That hurt. I was surprised my butt ...

@Scrim Amen, Brother Scrim, Amen. Yea verily I saith unto you that the truth is evident in your speech. I had a classic example of that happen to me ...

I had a survey firm call me up about six years ago about a topographical survey I had performed about four years earlier. They wanted me to hand them...

@field-dog Easy to be confused until one starts looking at the SPC numbers. The 0,0 point is probably not even in the same State.

Sometimes things don't meet our expectations but we are already doing the best we can. Your crew is what it is. Offer to pay me twice as much if I c...

@ashton In Kansas, our deeds are notarized to verify that the notary knows the signers and that is who signed the deed. Surveys are not notarized.

No problem whatsoever. As a reviewer, I simply turn and hand it back to the Register of Deeds and say, "Record it, as is."

From whence The Greatest American Hero was born. She married actor Bill Williams in 1946. He was best remembered for his portrayal of Kit Carson in Th...

Thanks, Ashton, for pointing out the lack of section corners in our Colonial States.