Very sorry for your loss. Knowing you through this site it hits close to my heart also. I wish you quiet peace and pleasant memories.

@dave-karoly Considering that the rule does state 'correctly locate and mark' you may be right in your opinion. I agree with Warren that sending every...

@i-ben-havin That is scary. I have been cautioned about 'practicing law without a license' several times. Usually by an attorney. Sometimes by the sam...

@dave-karoly Rule Two says to mark property lines as described in the deed. Here is an example of why I do not subscribe to that Rule: There is an ar...

Regarding Rule Two, I don't recall anyone ever asking me to mark their deed on the ground. People want their property lines defined and marked. There...

@back-chain There were many who attempted to attend without tickets that night. Mounted and K-9 officers went a little wild. Helicopter(s) flew over t...

@nate-the-surveyor As part of saving the black-footed ferret from extinction we needed prairie dogs by the hundreds for testing. Mink were substituted...

@loyal My brother gave me a plastic Brunton one year and I took it elk hunting with him so as not to hurt his feelings. It snowed about a foot on us n...

@richard-germiller I think I recall a seeing similar compass attachment for Wild instruments although I never used one.

@gene-kooper Yes, it was a good thing in the end that I lost that FWS job to budget restraints. I hadn't realized I was supposed to be a Surveyor at t...

We learn the best lessons from our mistakes...I feel I have been well educated!

@frozennorth That was not my experience with B/D wage determinations. Most of the projects I was interested in lacked a determination for surveyor wag...

@flga-2-2 There is a national organization, the NSPS! If more surveyors bothered to support it perhaps the results you are looking for might be obtain...

It was Ted that inspired me to write my first published article; on highway safety. I sat with him at a PLSC conference and he was much the same in pe...

The way I look at is that recorded subdivision plats are forever unless replatted. Anything that is subject to change in the future, 1 year or 100 yea...

Back about '95 a client called on us to topo a 'drained' pond in Crested Butte about 2 1/2 hours away. All crews being booked up I took my 11 year old...

@hi-staker How is that Hill People Gear work for you? I walk by their outlet almost daily but haven't been in to check it out yet. The backpackers say...