Sporting Road

John 16:33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. There is a mystique surrounding the cowboy way of life. Whether you are a working ranch cowboy or riding for the Lord, these seven indispensable habits will help you become the most you can possibly be.  Working Alone Some people get energized when working with others and some get energized by being alone. Much of the cowboy way of life is working alone. You have to be a self-starter and hold yourself accountable. If you need someone looking over your shoulder and telling you what to do, there is a lack of maturity and you might be one that needs to be constantly praised and not trusted. A real cowboy can perform well on their own.  Working With Others But there will also be many times that you must work together as a team. No where in the New Testament is it insinuated that you have to do everything alone. This might even be harder than working alone because many different personalities and situations arise that need understanding, grace, and even someone to step up and become a leader.  Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable There is nothing easy with the cowboy way of life. There really is no comfort zone. Being a cowboy is being able to constantly grow, mature, and learn. None of that is comfortable, whether it is due to weather, timing, convenience, or being an introvert or extrovert. If you want to be a cowboy, you’ve got to learn to adapt. That is uncomfortable and never done

Jeff is a good friend of ours now and we have two dogs out of his kennels. His methods are similar to my dog trainer’s, Gary Ruppel, but it’s always interesting to see how trainers accomplish the same results with slightly different methods. First thing that Jeff uses that is different is a puppy check cord. His are made from 8’ of nylon rope. I opted for orange Sterling Ropes 5mm Accessory Cord, which is better looking and not as burning on your hands. Tie off a swivel snap using a bowline knot. Jeff likes to put an over hand knot in the end of the rope. This is a lighter And shorter version of a drag check cord, great for puppies and which doubles as a leash. A second thing is a raised kennel which looks like a rabbit hutch for the puppies. Not sure why yet, but it looks good and makes it easy to get puppies out. The next thing is short chain tie outs for dogs. Jeff has them everywhere from the tow points below the bumper of his truck to the side of his horse trailer to the side of his kennels. I have to admit they come in handy. D.T. Systems Remote Bird Launcher 500 Series

I have fished with Rim Chung more weekends than not for the past twenty years and I a self-confessed student of his method, so you may find this article a bit biased towards his method.  For this method has been my only one for nearly that entire span of time, feeling it is the most effective manner of catching trout, salmon and grayling in streams.  Knowing that Rim has only fished one fly in about six sizes and six colors for the past thirty years, I asked him a question a couple of years ago, “If you only had one RS2s to choose from which would you choose?” He shot back, “The question should become on which river?  If it were for use on a freestone river, I would choose size 16.  Any color would do the job.  But for a tailwater, such as the Deckers area of the South Platte, you would have to have various sizes and colors.” Rim continued, “From nearly thirty years of fishing that river, you see, I have assembled a so-called hatch chart in my own mind.  From that length of experience, I can reasonably predict the predominantly available insect life for a particular time of year.  In the winter, my favorite for that river would be size 24 black.  I am sure that I can get by with that particular size and color all winter long, because of the predomination of small midges that time of season for that particular river.” I continued to push for a hint of limitations or at least where to start among the thirty six RS2s in his box, “Could you use that same fly for a season, such as the summer, maybe a

You can look at blankets from Hudson Bay Company (Canada), Pendleton Mills (Oregon), Woolrich (Pennsylvania), Fairbuilt Mills (Minnesota) and see a lot of similarities.  They are are warm and heavy and have been made for over 100 years.  Which are the best?  The answer is, it depends. The HBC blanket, in King (which is 8 points for the plebian, as points designates the size), weighs 10 pounds, the Pendelton 8.5, and the Fairbuilt is currently 6.5, so they are clearly different weights of wool (thicknesses).  So if you want the heaviest weight, get the HBC.  You can even get it with fur sewn onto the blanket, such as this one. https://www.thebay.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302023949&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441826345&R=886456857241&P_name=Hudson%27s+Bay+Company&N=4294966910+302023949&bmUID=mrF2BxA For the Rocky Mountains, Pendleton is more iconic and has more contemporary and old southwest and SW native American patterns than HBC.    The weight is slightly less and, for the price, you could buy almost two Pendletons now for one HBC, so it makes sense in terms of the amount of wool used.  The Fairbuilt is even less thick and the price reflects that, but these blankets are very popular in Minnesota and surrounding areas.  So get what you like, but understand why the prices are different, as the amount of wool used is different for each brand.  The quality is exceptional on all of these.

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon.[1][2][3] It was released on Netflix on March 16, 2018, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.[3][4][5][6] Turns out though that Osho wasn't crazy. He was a philisophy major in India, who became known as a sage. He was all over the place in lectures, having said he had read 150,00 books, which I believe may have been true. This created something of a cult following, but there was no control exerted by Osho over his followers, though other "leaders" of the commune may have had other ideas for power. He said meditation in the medicine. The mind is nothing but subtle matter, it can be changed easily. If you are generous you are rich. If you want to be rich, be generous. The riches life has endowed you with are not limited. A lawyer and he lives by words, because court is the very temple of this world. Have you seen the buildings of high courts? They are the temples now. Much is wasted on them. Why? The temples have become tiny but the High Court buildings, I’m getting higher and higher and bigger and bigger. In fact the power is there – the power of violence and murder camera the power of law and language in logic. The lawyer is a logician. The mind is time. Conciousness is eternity. His books are a surprisingly interesting samplings from all of the world's major religions and philosophers, as his his Dynamic Meditation technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfVcigkNao&feature=youtu.be His mediation starts out very similar to Wim Hof's breathing methods, before he plunges into freezing

Osho himself was not wealthy at all. In fact, he owned almost nothing. At most, he may have had a Buddha statue and a bottle of unscented shampoo—and that was it. Whatever he received, he gave away, including watches, Rolls-Royces, and statues of Buddha. It was his followers who were wealthy—some of them extremely so. They were the ones who bought the Rolls-Royces and expensive watches for him to use. His apparent display of wealth was pure showmanship. He wanted to challenge the idea that one must be poor to be religious. He believed that as long as poverty was idealized as a virtue, it would never truly be eliminated. He also welcomed the massive publicity the cars generated, once saying that he wanted to make sure “everyone who is looking for me will not be able to say they had not heard of me.” There were other messages behind it as well, such as parodying American materialism. He didn’t purchase these items himself; he simply accepted a few things because people insisted on giving them to him. Osho was often called the “guru of the rich.” In one interview, he was asked why he didn’t use his so-called “enormous wealth” to help the poor. He replied: “People have been helping the poor for thousands of years—and they are still poor. But who is there to help the rich?”

It's estimated that there are roughly 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. However, estimates vary among experts, with some estimating between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies. The exact number of galaxies has been a mystery, with estimates rising as telescope technology improved. NASA estimates that there are at least 100 billion planets in our Milky Way alone. Others estimated that the Milky Way galaxy might have anywhere between 100 to 200 billion planets.  They estimate one in 5 could hold life. That means that 10 x 10 to the 22nd power possibilities of planets that could hold life.