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The last survey in that block……..
Posted by holy-cow on February 17, 2020 at 10:45 pmThe last survey in that block was completed on March 13, 1991.
Doing a simple lot and block type job in a nearby town. Researching the records indicated the second and last survey ever conducted in that block was completed on March 13, 1991. The crew consisted of myself and my daughter who was celebrating her 17th birthday by spending all day working with her dad. The day was Wednesday of Spring Break week, just like the day she was born which was Wednesday of Spring Break that year.
Damm, I’m getting old.
holy-cow replied 4 years, 2 months ago 11 Members · 19 Replies- 19 Replies
But it beats the heck out of the alternative.
Getting? ????
- Posted by: @flga
Getting? ????
Speaking of getting old, how is retirement?
Are you wearing the jump-suit “onesies” with white Nikes yet? 😉
Old is 10 years older than I am. Always.
.@paden-cash
😆 ??? ??? ???
Blinding my mental self by visualizing the male equivalent of a muumuu worn nearly 24/7 that never gets washed. What do they call those things? Kaftan, or something?
this whole old guy wardrobe thing begs the question- Did he stop caring and let her pick the wardrobe or did she stop caring and let him dress himself?
Listen to y’all. Like a bunch of clucking hens gossiping to beat the band. Take a gander in the mirror, ummm…on second thought, don’t, you might scare yourself into a stroke or something. ????
@paden
Retirement is ok, I think. Of course SWMBO can think of a million things for me to do. (To complete her list would take until 2086)
The shuffleboard committee rejected my application because I didn’t write the date in the format they “liked”.
The Bingo (IDIOTS) wouldn’t allow me to apply because I didn’t have on black over-the-calf knee socks.
It’s really strange not to have anything business related to worry about.
Other than that everything is good. ????
There is nothing wrong with going to Denny`s at 2:00am in Speedos and flip flops.
- Posted by: @flga
Listen to y’all. Like a bunch of clucking hens gossiping to beat the band. Take a gander in the mirror, ummm…on second thought, don’t, you might scare yourself into a stroke or something. ????
….There is nothing wrong with going to Denny`s at 2:00am in Speedos and flip flops.
I’ve just kind of sublimed into retirement over the last 4 years. No real changes in my wardrobe, same old blue jeans, hiking boots and either a t-shirt or a flannel shirt depending on the weather. Over the years I’ve been a “member” of several old-men-morning-coffee-groups. They bore me to tears. You can only sit and talk about your A1C or your stints for so long, then it gets old.
But I’m a fundamentalist when it comes to clothing. If I’m outdoors, that’s how I dress. When I’m in the house it’s my flannel jammies and slippers…which I wear ALOT in the winter.
The other evening I needed to run to CVS to pick up a prescription. I just threw on a hoodie and headed for the door. My wife protested. She didn’t think my flannel jammies and slippers were appropriate for public. I explained I was wearing a pair of jammie bottoms that actually had an intact button fly…and as far as I was concerned that was good enough.
I’m not really sure what she said as I shut the door. I think it was along the lines of “you are so gross…” or something like that. I just acted like I didn’t hear and told her “I love you more…” 😉
@paden-cash a true benefit of hearing loss…
Florida is like a giant open air Wal-Mart. Between the tourists and “those things that call themselves humans, from the North”, the dress code was abandoned in the 1950’s. Fat men in dirty wife beaters, shorts, and flip flops, Plus sized women in shorts 4 sizes too small with tank tops that basically reveal all are as common as palm trees.
In other words Florida is full of Weird O’s. Hell, I’m living proof according to SWMBO. ????
@flga
We have the “California Rule” or maybe observation.
No matter what you wear to a function or event, there will be someone else wearing the same thing. Cut-off blue jeans at a funeral, there will be someone else wearing cut-off blue jeans. And so on.
@dave-karoly My son says there is always someone at a wedding wearing a Hawai’ian shirt and white pants.
- Posted by: @holy-cow
The last survey in that block was completed on March 13, 1991.
Doing a simple lot and block type job in a nearby town. Researching the records indicated the second and last survey ever conducted in that block was completed on March 13, 1991. The crew consisted of myself and my daughter who was celebrating her 17th birthday by spending all day working with her dad. The day was Wednesday of Spring Break week, just like the day she was born which was Wednesday of Spring Break that year.
Damm, I’m getting old.
Life is like toilet paper. The closer you get to the middle, the faster it goes. – unknown
I went out last week and recovered control I set for a timber survey in 1983 to do a small boundary survey. Found the control from the little aluminum tags nailed to vine maples and hazel nut trees, iron rods still in good shape. Looking at the old field notes I had to have a moment of silence for the other 2 guys on the project, both running traverses in the clouds now, and how much fun we had on that 3 year long timber survey of 11 sections. I asked the senior party chief years after the project why we worked to hard for our $5.50 per hour and the remarked that it was the ‘only game in town” during the early 1980s.
Drove over a bridge last week and thought of that fairly nice November afternoon in 1978 when we were carrying elevation up the almost dry stream bed until we finally hit what was going to be our design maximum flow depth. Downstream we were designing a concrete overflow-type dam to form a reservoir for irrigation purposes. Today it would be done in a under thirty minutes with a few GPS shots.
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