Mark, grab yourself your first gold star. You're learnin' to walk the walk, talk the talk. The boss, Donna-ski, and I always joke about learnin' on the fly (and man, we do alot of it)..."we'll start gettin' good at it when we're done".
Guys like you and me take the route of hiring the man for this level and volume of dirt-work. This, in of itself, is not so difficult...the tough part is finding someone with the ability, integrity, and honesty to do it for us the way we want it done. There are others on this forum that have not been so fortunate when they walked a mile in our muddy shoes.
Keep it comin', man. You may not know it, but you are teaching right now. If not a veteran, surely another pond-dreamer.
