The honeymoon is over.

In the 1980's we had a cigarette vending machine in the main drafting room at the engineering company where I worked. A lot of the employees lettered...

Ever notice that almost everyone has claimed to have been a 'surveyor' at one time or another in their life thinking what they did was the extent of t...

I have my wife trained to do it. She recently went to San Francisco and kept sending me pics of survey markers.

Being within $500 on a $12,000 project seems to me that your ball was pretty low as well. It takes balls to do what you did and even bigger balls to ...

Yes. State exactly what you found and where you found it. Invaluable information to someone later.

Sometimes the note might be good if everything else is already covered. I once had the "For Information Purposes Only" note on my plat when I showed ...

Glad you are around to share the experience! Gravel on curves scare me. When you are on a bike, you tend to notice EVERY vehicle during your entire ...

It's a really sticky rubber silicone called Lawson Flexseal Supreme that comes in a pressurized can. The best stuff I have found to bond pieces of st...

Great photos! It amazes me that there are still some of these monuments in existence with the propensity of mankind to take anything that they feel m...

Assuming you are a surveyor - just not a licensed surveyor? There are a whole lot of surveyors out there that claim to know how to use RTK and have r...

Nebraska and South Dakota still have many places on the current highway maps that appear to be towns, but there is nothing more than a single residenc...

The monument builders often placed the 1/4 marks or the notches on the stones at the end of the day or beginning of the day and piled the stones in th...

I don't have a picture, but where I grew up in northern Nebraska you would occasionally see two fences from adjacent landowners running parallel and s...

There's a whole lot of debris floating out there from a couple of past tsunamis.