Welcome to the conversationsations, that Matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris. I'm kind of in my work around the house outdoor clothes today because that's what I've been doing. I actually just set up an archery target. I didn't think I could do it in my yard, but I did. I actually did.

Thinking a little creatively, I had to make use of a hill I live on a hill so there's

this elevation kind of I let's just say that I'm shooting up but I have a rock wall

that kind of captures whatever I shoot in case I have a stray arrow so it's safe

but it's just it's not straight and I just thought of a range or somewhere to shoot as being straight or having to be straight because that's always

where I've shot. But the closest archery range to me is like 20 minutes away and I was looking at the requirements to be able to

shoot there and you have to join their organization which means 15 hours a year of

service work which is fine it's just I'm like I don't know if I'm that into this sport and

and then you have to pay like I think it's like 300 bucks a year or something like that so I was like

you know, I between the time and

it was like 40 minutes there I'm back and then I have to pay a toll going across the

bridge that's gas that's I started doing all the math in my head and I thought let me just try to be

creative so I actually built myself today and for my con actually I have my bow right

here I'll show everyone this is my my Matthew's compound bow. So I've had

this for this was one of those impulse buys in 2020 that I'm sure none of you did that none of you went out and bought something in

20 thinking like well now I have I can't really get a full screen shot on this but I I thought I'm gonna have all this time now because everything's online. I was going to actually I think I had just graduated. There was some overlap with me doing my thesis work and graduating and anyway though people weren't meeting church wasn't even meeting the church I was going to for like the first two months and so for the first few weeks I was

looking around what kind of services are even out there so like Bible studies

were canceled none of the stuff that I would have been involved in was going

on and I thought I'll get back into

archery because that's what I used to do in my teens a lot and I enjoy it I love

archery I think I mean that that was my thing when I was probably like 12 13 14 how to bail of hay in the backyard and I remember my first compound boat because I had a I think it was a it was a recurve I think that this kind of practice recurve bow and then my

dad bought me a compound bow and I was overjoyed when that happened and I got all into it and I don't know what happened. I guess I got into fishing or something else. I go through little phases sometimes. But anyway I thought today I would take some time

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