Our biggest problem to date has been: we're trying to complete 5-10 years worth of work in two years. We are also doing everything on a "beyond hobbyist scale". For example, we currently have 34 fruit trees. 34 x $30 + 12 dead = A LOT OF TIME AND MONEY! As an architect, I'm pretty uptight about everything looking a certain way. This means EVERYTHING is laid out in the field with equipment and measured to the 1/8th.

THE ANAL RETENTION ISSUE HAS CHANGED WITH TIME!

Its odd how you start to realize there are a lot of things you can obsess over that don't really matter. For example, we spend days design (in CAD) and then laying out (in the field) our orchard. Guess what...trees are NOT perfectly straight. They are bent, gnarled and grow unevenly.


JYD #123 The great one formerly known as Architect.

I am now a fictional British television police officer (currently a Detective Sgt) at Thames Valley Station. My governor is Detective Inspector Fred Thursday and it’s 1969.