Thursday, January 22, 2009
Obama lite / less filling?
Is it just me, or does it feel like the air is a little less heavy since Obama took office? I know that in reality that not much can change in just two days, but I get more of a feeling that things are finally going to turn to a positive slant. Not just here in the homeland, but around the world as well. I don't know if it's me just drinking the political kool-aid or what. The one thing that I do know is that my own personal ground zero in which I traverse feels different. Feelings can be fickle. Only time will set the reality. Anyone else sense anything? Just curious.
Simple musings
Their is just some things that baffle me to no end. I will keep this short.
1. How do people make it in this world without getting shot, when they have virtually no people skills? This includes listening, talking, thinking, and eating with their mouth shut. How do they end up in customer service jobs? They also tend to have enough kids to start their own soccer team. Ughhhh!!
2. Why don't we teach critical thinking skills to our children? To adults? Why is it that adults act more childish than the children they bare?
3. George W. .............why did it take eight years? ( refer to #2) Enough said!
1. How do people make it in this world without getting shot, when they have virtually no people skills? This includes listening, talking, thinking, and eating with their mouth shut. How do they end up in customer service jobs? They also tend to have enough kids to start their own soccer team. Ughhhh!!
2. Why don't we teach critical thinking skills to our children? To adults? Why is it that adults act more childish than the children they bare?
3. George W. .............why did it take eight years? ( refer to #2) Enough said!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Happy new year!
I know what you are thinking. Your a little late dude. No kidding!
For all of you that know me, and for those who don't. I just want to extend a happy new year to everyone that I may have come in contact with this last year. That includes, but is not limited to physical, mental, and cyber connections. It's those interactions that help us become what we are and are not. May you and yours have a great 2009! Blog on!! Yohon.
For all of you that know me, and for those who don't. I just want to extend a happy new year to everyone that I may have come in contact with this last year. That includes, but is not limited to physical, mental, and cyber connections. It's those interactions that help us become what we are and are not. May you and yours have a great 2009! Blog on!! Yohon.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Deer, Dance and Ducks etc.etc.etc.
I think I have to many hobbies. Is that possible? Or do I just have to many interests for my allotment of time on this mud ball that I am riding on? Isn't it great that we have the ability to pursue all of the things that we can imagine in this life? I think that we are very lucky to live in this day and age. Yeah........their is plenty to complain about, but their is in every generation. In my way of thinking it comes down to one's perception of their existence. Are you coming from fear and the feeling that their is not enough, or the thought that their is an abundance of everything good and enough for all to enjoy? Perception is everything. Gotta go....tomorrow is coming and I need to get rested up!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
No way around it.....dang it
I know its difficult to see the similarities between roping steers and ballroom dancing, but I can attest that their is not much difference in the skill, physicality, or emotional highs and lows that one experiences when you take your craft out of the class room and put it in front of your fellow peers and total strangers to see. When you use that as a barometer of your learning it can be quite humbling.
In ballroom dance and team roping the similarities can be very similar in that your body must be able to multi-task at a seconds notice and legs,torso,hands and feet must be able to adjust on the fly all the while your eyes and brain need to be in sink with your current surroundings to avoid wrecks, and awkward situations. Mastering the art of maintaining your partner in a controlled manner be it horse or dance partner to me is one of the biggest challenges. Just about the time that you think you have it down pat, you take your horse to town to show off what you have learned only to get bucked off in front of your friends. I know that is the quickest way to measure where you are at in the learning process but sometimes it really sucks. Especially when you think your game was solid. You spend hours and hours training and thousands of dollars in the process only to find out that the learning has just begun. It's good, it's cool,....I have been down this road before, it's just that you hope this time you can skip this step in the process. Ain't going to happen this time either but it's always good to think so.
How's the old saying go......sing like no one can hear, dance like no one is watching, and love like you have never been hurt. Bodes well this time.
In ballroom dance and team roping the similarities can be very similar in that your body must be able to multi-task at a seconds notice and legs,torso,hands and feet must be able to adjust on the fly all the while your eyes and brain need to be in sink with your current surroundings to avoid wrecks, and awkward situations. Mastering the art of maintaining your partner in a controlled manner be it horse or dance partner to me is one of the biggest challenges. Just about the time that you think you have it down pat, you take your horse to town to show off what you have learned only to get bucked off in front of your friends. I know that is the quickest way to measure where you are at in the learning process but sometimes it really sucks. Especially when you think your game was solid. You spend hours and hours training and thousands of dollars in the process only to find out that the learning has just begun. It's good, it's cool,....I have been down this road before, it's just that you hope this time you can skip this step in the process. Ain't going to happen this time either but it's always good to think so.
How's the old saying go......sing like no one can hear, dance like no one is watching, and love like you have never been hurt. Bodes well this time.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Random thoughts # 27
Their is a number of things that have me more than a little nonplussed in the last few weeks. Here is a short list of some of the ones that have left me thinking.
Domestic violence. Any of it really, but I am thinking more about Larry Johnson of the KC Chiefs in particular. Here is someone who can take hits from defensive linemen that weigh 360 pounds, but doesn't have enough balls to walk away from some little gal that bumps into his ego. I mean WTF! Larry. I suggest that you use some of your guaranteed 18 million to get some help and to have your drinks delivered to your house until you can get your ego in check.
Brail key pads at the drive up ATM. Enough said.
People that want to set you up with a date, but start the conversation with........I would like you to meet this great gal but I don't think she is your type. Are you kidding me!!! I mean how the hell does that work! Shes not my type... that's fine, but why would you even bring that up. Heck, I think I can do that one myself. Swear to God that happened to me twice in the last couple weeks with different people.
How the world population went from two people, Adam and Eve, to 6 billion with out incest in the beginning.
People that will not eat an apple with a worm but will eat hamburger, when 75% of all U.S produced burger tests positive for some form of coliform.
How come eggs don't taste like chicken?
Their is more but those were some that stood out for me lately. Ahh.......much better now.
Domestic violence. Any of it really, but I am thinking more about Larry Johnson of the KC Chiefs in particular. Here is someone who can take hits from defensive linemen that weigh 360 pounds, but doesn't have enough balls to walk away from some little gal that bumps into his ego. I mean WTF! Larry. I suggest that you use some of your guaranteed 18 million to get some help and to have your drinks delivered to your house until you can get your ego in check.
Brail key pads at the drive up ATM. Enough said.
People that want to set you up with a date, but start the conversation with........I would like you to meet this great gal but I don't think she is your type. Are you kidding me!!! I mean how the hell does that work! Shes not my type... that's fine, but why would you even bring that up. Heck, I think I can do that one myself. Swear to God that happened to me twice in the last couple weeks with different people.
How the world population went from two people, Adam and Eve, to 6 billion with out incest in the beginning.
People that will not eat an apple with a worm but will eat hamburger, when 75% of all U.S produced burger tests positive for some form of coliform.
How come eggs don't taste like chicken?
Their is more but those were some that stood out for me lately. Ahh.......much better now.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Since I was gone.
I know it's been some time since I last posted anything, but as we all know sometimes life just gets too damn busy. So here is a quick little update of things that have been going on.
Things on the management ground have gone fairly smooth, we did a controlled burn in mid-August on some of the fields that we sprayed in July to kill out the fescue. The burn went fairly well until the midday winds started to pick up, and for a short moment thought it might burn my truck! I was a little nervous, but I've been scared before. I was more nervous about the fire getting into the timber. It was already in the low 90's ambient and it felt about 1500 degrees standing between the timber and the field trying to keep it contained. At the end of the day the cool river water never felt so good. The fields have since been planted and it will be interesting to see how things come up this fall. The fields that we planted in the spring look awesome. I don't think I have ever been so excited to see these fields, that had been fallow for years, become little wildlife Mecca's. I still can't stop myself from standing in the edge of the fields in the morning with a cup of coffee and just enjoying the fruits of our labor as it all comes together.
On a side note I am starting to get more than a little anxious about the loggers getting into the areas that they were in this spring and getting the roads, log decks, and ephemeral pools squared away. I understand that it's been a wet year, but things have been dry enough as of late to get in and get some work done. I am at about three weeks from blowing a gasket if this shit doesn't get done before the leaves start to fall. Also their are still stands to check, logging roads to seed and approximately five more fall food plots to plant,...as well as firewood to put up.
Switching gears now. In early August I competed in my very first ballroom dance competition at the Embassy Suites hotel up by the airport. Wow! Talk about being out of my element. Four days without a ball cap, toothpick, or hot beer," that's rolled around in the back of the pickup for at least two weeks, " no country music, cigars, or sports radio, I mean what the hell was I thinking. Am I trying to kill myself or what?!
With all do respect I must say that I had a great time at the event. I had the opportunity to meet some very nice people from all around the country. I really figured that being around so many pretty people, that they would all be kind of snobbish. They were not at all. In fact just the opposite. Cool!
So my dance instructor when this event is first brought to my attention asks me if I am interested in competing. My first thought is, is he freaking crazy! Has he not been watching me. Is he trying to kill his business or what. In the end I decide to just do it....just like the Nike commercial. I am not new to competition, I have competed in all kinds of sport, from football to tennis, team roping to chess, power volleyball to debate, golf to archery. This was probably the most nerve racking. The largest event I had competed in had a little over 2000 entries. This one had 7000. WTF. did I just sign up for? To make a long story short I was entered into eleven heats in my division, doing seven different dances " I still can't believe that my instructor entered me that many times." I placed in six out of the eleven events. Wahoo!
I am still doing volunteer work for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation, and am having fun being around like minded people who have a common bond in the sharing and educating of those in and around the community about the natural treasures that we take for granted in this day and age. I helped with the Missouri Blue bird convention this last weekend, and I am scheduled to help with the prairies awareness event this weekend in south Kansas City. The end of the month has me heading to the state capitol for the MDC. state wide volunteers get together. Also I will be doing my first controlled burn workshop next week so that I may be qualified to help with controlled burns on MDC areas. After the experience from my own personal controlled burn, it sounds like a sound investment.
I am still wanting to get to Steelville to rope some steers before the first frost. I still miss the smell of the roping arena, the sound of the gates and the sound of the hoofs thundering down the arena in a race against time. The smell of horse and cow, and sawdust and hay,... man what a day!
Their is still many more things that have been going on that I haven't mentioned but maybe this hits the high points. On a side note I would like to extend best wishes to, gia at best, which represents half of my IT. support, lol!... for their new found career opportunity. Break a leg!!
Things on the management ground have gone fairly smooth, we did a controlled burn in mid-August on some of the fields that we sprayed in July to kill out the fescue. The burn went fairly well until the midday winds started to pick up, and for a short moment thought it might burn my truck! I was a little nervous, but I've been scared before. I was more nervous about the fire getting into the timber. It was already in the low 90's ambient and it felt about 1500 degrees standing between the timber and the field trying to keep it contained. At the end of the day the cool river water never felt so good. The fields have since been planted and it will be interesting to see how things come up this fall. The fields that we planted in the spring look awesome. I don't think I have ever been so excited to see these fields, that had been fallow for years, become little wildlife Mecca's. I still can't stop myself from standing in the edge of the fields in the morning with a cup of coffee and just enjoying the fruits of our labor as it all comes together.
On a side note I am starting to get more than a little anxious about the loggers getting into the areas that they were in this spring and getting the roads, log decks, and ephemeral pools squared away. I understand that it's been a wet year, but things have been dry enough as of late to get in and get some work done. I am at about three weeks from blowing a gasket if this shit doesn't get done before the leaves start to fall. Also their are still stands to check, logging roads to seed and approximately five more fall food plots to plant,...as well as firewood to put up.
Switching gears now. In early August I competed in my very first ballroom dance competition at the Embassy Suites hotel up by the airport. Wow! Talk about being out of my element. Four days without a ball cap, toothpick, or hot beer," that's rolled around in the back of the pickup for at least two weeks, " no country music, cigars, or sports radio, I mean what the hell was I thinking. Am I trying to kill myself or what?!
With all do respect I must say that I had a great time at the event. I had the opportunity to meet some very nice people from all around the country. I really figured that being around so many pretty people, that they would all be kind of snobbish. They were not at all. In fact just the opposite. Cool!
So my dance instructor when this event is first brought to my attention asks me if I am interested in competing. My first thought is, is he freaking crazy! Has he not been watching me. Is he trying to kill his business or what. In the end I decide to just do it....just like the Nike commercial. I am not new to competition, I have competed in all kinds of sport, from football to tennis, team roping to chess, power volleyball to debate, golf to archery. This was probably the most nerve racking. The largest event I had competed in had a little over 2000 entries. This one had 7000. WTF. did I just sign up for? To make a long story short I was entered into eleven heats in my division, doing seven different dances " I still can't believe that my instructor entered me that many times." I placed in six out of the eleven events. Wahoo!
I am still doing volunteer work for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation, and am having fun being around like minded people who have a common bond in the sharing and educating of those in and around the community about the natural treasures that we take for granted in this day and age. I helped with the Missouri Blue bird convention this last weekend, and I am scheduled to help with the prairies awareness event this weekend in south Kansas City. The end of the month has me heading to the state capitol for the MDC. state wide volunteers get together. Also I will be doing my first controlled burn workshop next week so that I may be qualified to help with controlled burns on MDC areas. After the experience from my own personal controlled burn, it sounds like a sound investment.
I am still wanting to get to Steelville to rope some steers before the first frost. I still miss the smell of the roping arena, the sound of the gates and the sound of the hoofs thundering down the arena in a race against time. The smell of horse and cow, and sawdust and hay,... man what a day!
Their is still many more things that have been going on that I haven't mentioned but maybe this hits the high points. On a side note I would like to extend best wishes to, gia at best, which represents half of my IT. support, lol!... for their new found career opportunity. Break a leg!!
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