Physical Challenge

So Today I was frisby golfing. It was about 55 and sunny, despite breaking into the 10s last night. On about hole 15 I pull an unfortunate righty and my disk flies onto the lake, bounces, rolls, and comes to a stop about 20 feet out on thin ice. No good stick in sight and we headed back the the car spiteful of the fridgid tomb that encapsulated my trusty arch-angel. We realized upon arrival that we had 2 dog collars, and 1 bungy cord, a cooler lid....perhaps recipe for a hooking system. After some preparation and fruitless stick hunting, we threw our first lifeline at sunset. Woefully short. So we added my belt. Still short. The Dog Collar. It was possible, but it would take a perfect throw, perfect roap-handling and some luck. Fortunately we had all of these.

It took at least 10 shots to get it to budge, but the quit was not yet even on the table. We came to the course for a skill game and weren't going to just leave when presented with another. We were getting wetter, colder and more frustrated but finally had some luck. I did what is known in the national beer-porn circuit as my Zen Shot. It has 4 steps: 1)close eyes, begin deeper breething 2) Clear mnind, focus on nothing for a few seconds, 3) fill mind with confidence 4) open eyes, renew confidence, shoot. We dragged the cooler lid in slowly, binging the bastard frisby a few feet, shot again, moved a few more and confidence was soaring. Length was no longer an issue, so we tied the dog to a tree and reapplied my belt. Then another good shot turned horrible, the cooler lid anchor and one of the leashes came untied from the bungy cord and lay out on the ice abotu 5 feet past the reach of the stick. The belt came back off, the other leash and the harnes were tied to the middle of the stick and an anchor receiving anchor was made. 5 shots and several rocks glided from across the pond and we combined the 2 anchors ot form the super anchor. A couple more shots and the trophy disk was just out of reach of the stick. The the cooler lid came untied and lay out on the ice. So anchor 2 was reconstructed, and we got the frisby then the lid. The whole effort took over an hour and used a total of 8 tools.

And I'm feeling great. I made a $1 pizza and a salad with tiger, sweet baby, 2 dressing, tostitos, salsa, lettuce and tons of croutons. High ingredients are always a sign of a high mood, which I am attributing to the random task. As kids we all used to do it, and had a great time of it. Make up a physical challenge and play it out. It really helps the mood, especially when it is soured by too much mental effort. It's human nature to always focus on challenges, we're well served to find some fun ones, and often that necesitates making one up.