Before you begin, also call a building inspector to determine necessary posthole depths for your project and to find out if you need a building permit. They''re generally required for fences and decks.Have your layout all set--time is moneyScrupulously lay out your postholes before renting an auger so you can be using the tool the whole time you''re paying for it. Pay close attention to locations and mark the exact centers of the holes with stakes. It''s nearly impossible to move or reposition a hole once you''ve started boring, so it''s important to begin in the right spot. If you need wider holes than the auger will drill or if you need to slightly reposition a hole, you can easily carve away the sides with hand tools.

Well, you know where this is going. Suddenly the snowy egrets don''t sleep so peacefully in the mangroves and sweet, compassionate Geoff is Gary Gilmore. He doesn''t play with Phil anymore, unless forced to, and for him, interactions with Phil are beyond frosty. Phil, of course, is oblivious. He cooks one night during every golf trip, and we all love him for that, but we don''t realize that he thinks cooking relieves him of all other golf-trip duties, makitachopsaws including but not limited to picking up pins. He subscribes to the "Everybody Has a Role" theory of golf trips, which, though once espoused by this magazine, was not cleared in advance with the rest of us. It was makitachopsaws especially not cleared with Geoff, who finds Phil''s chicken and rice unusually gassy.

GPS at Ground ZeroGPS was instrumental in documenting the location of items recovered at Ground Zero. FDNY, which had been charged with the task, realized soon after the Sept. 11 attack that recovery workers were having trouble recording evidence locations.Firefighters had to sight landmarks to gauge where they were within the 16-acre site, which was broken into 75- by 75-foot blocks for mapping. They then took notes on paper indicating what was found - whether metal fragments or human remains - and approximately where before the item was removed to a landfill, warehouse or the medical examiner''s office. The information later was entered into a computer database by hand.

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