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I view it differently Craig,
What are your 3 most valuable assets? 
 
Answer:  Your Health
 
                Your knowledge
 
                Your Time
Anything that can augment those three things are priceless!  Don’t gag at the nat and turn around and swallow the camel!
 
As to your second comment about dabbling in surveying… This is all…[Read more]

Let me clarify…I meant to imply that the PARTICULAR microbrew the arch’s were imbibing was swill…boiled grass clippings. Not all microbrews, they just pick the bad ones. Its all about the label and appearances.

Microbrew is the only beer I drink

That attitude may afford you more sleep but this method will make you more money 🙂  !
 
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Ah but now you are in the relm of Human emotion.  And as such someone who is deathly allergic of bees wants to be as far from them as possible.  And even though what you say is true and logical, emotion has nothing to do with either.
 
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It seems like every company that has a problem getting rid of some waste by-product.  Grinds and colors it and mixes it with some landscape product an sells in a premium bag for the John Q homeowner that hasn’t got a clue.
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Bees don’t bother people, you have to go out of your way to get stung, like slapping the queen.

which is common practice…

Obscure micro-brews tend to be the best.Just sayin’.

Hi Andrew
I invested 12,700.00
That included the Gun, 360′ Prisim, 2 (new) Field Hawk Radios, cable to connect the radio to the gun, Carlson SurvCE, and Carlson Survey and my Motorola MC75 and a holder for my data collector on the prisim pole.  I traded my topcon total station in so if you count that the above figure would be $2,800.00 less.  B…[Read more]

I wonder if what the bad vibes are more about the issue of the AIA chapter placing this choice of speaker into such prominence, rather than a fellow professional (whether ASLA, a horticulture or environmental professor, a published author, or even a trained extension agent). Not to say that a plants lady has nothing to offer but it might feel a…[Read more]

I encourage you guys to think about it a little differently.
 
In what other context do we say, “don’t improve yourself” or “don’t learn so much” or “stop trying to be so educated”.
 
In many other contexts, this is dangerous thinking.
 
If something is done wrong, we would be far better to criticize, and reason and explain the fault (and God fo…[Read more]

Given what Albert C said above (“Flora Grubb Gardens is a retail garden store plants, pots, furnishing, gifts, coffee, etc.”) which was my impression from what I found on Google, I’m going out on a limb here and speculate that she might not even have a good clue what LA even IS, had some connections, and just saw a timely marketing opportunity (or…[Read more]

Pay attention to the demographic that you market to. While we all appreciate that good design is worth the investment at any size or budget project, the reality is that your ability to get paid to design inreases as its percentage of the budget decreases – in other words, you won’t get much out of a low budget/ medium budget prospect. Put your…[Read more]

Definitely on board with the notion that no one is going to do a better job of getting what is necessary in a survey than the designer (with experience). Another huge benefit is that you have the ability to get more data right away as you develop a need for it … such as getting tighter topo where a retaining wall is planned as the design…[Read more]

yeah and the flip side of that here in Louisville last year (where it is the smoking capital of the US) was a resturant that had rubber mulch layed in the landscape around the building.  One stray cigerette butt caught the mulch on fire and burnt the resturant to the ground!
 
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I doubt they are grinding those western cedars just for mulch.  Most of them are sawed for lumber and the bark is debarked before sawing and turned into muclh. (they would other wise waste the bark what is the problem?)  I have never been a fan of Black hardwood muclh,  So companies mix charcoal with the mulch to get it black  (the eqvialent of…[Read more]

Most retailers don’t want big shade trees in the parkinglot.  What happens to a parking lot of cars with large shade trees shading the cars when a sudden bad storm pops up?  Lots of damaged cars and pissed off customers!
 
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I suspect this is just a strategy to get zoning appoval.  Later after the project is complete and the tree is dead, they quitely come back in an remove the Island to make room for more cars!  I have seen that done more than once.
 
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That works great right up until the grass dies in the fall.  I pity the feller that has his car parked beside the island when some dipstick thows a well lit cigerete into that 6′ tall ball of gasoline called a ornamental grass clump.  At the very least the guy needs a new paint job on his car if not worse.
 
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