Being Chairman of APLS has taught me something. Even the best of intentions can be resisted if the other side feels shut out. I have come to realize that APLS is NOT structured for all of its members to agree on everything. No matter how bad I want us to. So from this point forward I am not going to hammer my opinion. I will offer my point of view and if you agree so be it if you disagree so be it. If you want to talk about it we can. However I won't be arguing to change any point of view. I will simply offer mine and listen you to yours.
Surveying Stuff......
I have been spending the last 2 months marking and posting national forest boundary. I love this work. Being out in the woods; the physical exertion; and the recovery of 100 year old HES corners. On one particular job the Boundary was a considerable distance inside a landowners fence. So we made contact and myself and the landowner looked for the HES corner. She kept looking around the fence and I crawled into a manzanita and there it was. I cleared the brush and showed her the chiseled "WC 8 HES ...." on the face of the sandstone. She became very angry. After several minutes of discourse she ask me to vacate the property. So we did. As we were leaving she said and I quote "F#$%ing rocks; I thought surveyors used satellites"; I am still laughing about that.
Merry Christmas ALL.
That sounds like a good approach that will let you sleep at night and accomplish more. It's an old Zen Buddhist idea that works well for many wise folks. No, I am not usually wise enough to follow my own advice.
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J.O.
Great story.
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