From a very young age we all start to make judgment calls. Growing older and gaining experience, we find some things we wish we had done differently and would have had we known then what we know now. Our profession of land surveying is truly a practice. We must make judgment calls in the course of our work.

This past winter was very tough in Southeastern Pennsylvania and our snow lasted far too long. While preforming a topographic survey of a one-acre residential site, I tripped over snow covered debris and fell and hurt my inner thigh on a very hard object. My first thought was I had impaled my leg on a piece of metal, perhaps an old fence post. Lying on the ground I looked down expecting to see something entering one side of my leg and exiting the other side. I saw nothing there. My pants were not torn and there was no blood seeping through from an abrasion impact. Several hours later in the emergency room, my leg was a swollen horrible sight.