Here's my take on the situation.

1.) Management said they would post pictures of stripping and trenching sometime in December 2008.

reading between the lines I read this as "We will strip and trench until freeze up, analyse the results and should get some pictures up sometime in Decmeber".

2.) They stripped and trenched until December 19.

This is about a month later than I had expected. Noone was happoer to hear this fact last week than I was it seems

3.) So Now it's December 29th and the company has diligently stripped their property for about 4 weeks longer than (I, and I would guess they as well) expected, and there are people here who are worried about some pictures that will do nothing to advance this project except give some a warm and fuzzy feeling that there is actually work being done.

BOO HOO!!!

Let's move on