Welcome to Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm happy to announce it's three month in Monet Cafe. Join me this month for some great lessons on learning how to paint trees. If you haven't subscribed yet, I hope you will. You're gonna learn a lot. We're gonna have a lot of fun. And if you would like to support me on Patreon, that would be great. It keeps these free tutorials coming on Monet Cafe. Hello and welcome to Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm very excited to bring you the theme for this month here on the Monet Cafe YouTube channel. Also in the Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook and for my patrons on my Patreon page. And that theme is drum roll please. Trees. Now I'm excited about the subject matter. I've been painting trees for years in landscapes and I've done some tutorials on trees but I thought it would be neat to take a whole month to focus on tree tutorials. There's so much variety. I love trees. They seem to raise their branches and praise of the Lord and so I love them. I tend to think of them as people. And also too I'm going to be focusing some on lessons that will be great for the beginner. So here we go. It should be an exciting month of painting trees. All right, happy tree painting. Let's get started. I had a sweet studio mascot. This is my mama's dog Dasha. There is an actual painting tutorial in this lesson but first I wanted to go over some of the basics. What to do and what not to do when painting trees. All right now first we'll get started in talking about how not to paint trees. Sometimes it's good to learn what not to do first. Have you ever done this before? Maybe as a child. Maybe as an adult. Where we paint a tree a little bit like a silhouette or a lollipop like a green lollipop. Also too we have a tendency sometimes to think we have to give too much detail. Painting literally every leaf on a tree and often we just add too much detail. I'll also be talking in future lessons about distant trees and how we misshape them often. So this is going to be fun but first let me talk about three different concepts for painting trees. Now we know trees have a shape. That's what's called a contour and it is good to go ahead and understand and be able to paint the contour of a tree. Now a way I paint more often is by shape and by value. So often I'll turn my pastel or whatever medium I'm working in to where I can get a bigger stroke or a broader stroke and I will paint my value by shape and value. Large shapes and so right now I'm just painting the shape of the tree, varying my pressure and also getting in some of the trunk and the branches in to get the same shape but with a different concept. Now a method that I recommend is almost combining the two where I'm combining contour and value but I've learned later in my art career to try and capture what I call the gesture of the tree. I'm trying to create the energy within the tree, still focusing on the value and the contour but I'm trying to create the tree almost from the inside out and from its gesture and its life. Now let me explain a little bit more about the difference between contour and gesture. Now this is real time and I'm giving the contour a basic contour of this particular tree. It's kind of like a desert tree. I liked its shape and I am doing the contour now and I think this is how a lot of us, including me when I was first painting, thought of how to draw or paint a tree. I think of the outline of the tree. That's kind of what contour means and a contour can lack gesture, can lack life and so I'm going to show you after I do this contour how to create a tree more with gesture. Now I'm going in now and adding some of the spaces in the tree and I think this is really how a lot of us think when we're first beginning drawing or painting. Now try to keep that same tree in mind and let me explain the difference with gesture. Often when we talk about gestural drawings we typically are referring to the human form. The gesture is more of the motion of the form and I find trees very much like figure drawing can have a motion and a gesture and when we learn to create that gesture the tree, as in the human form, will have more life, more grace and more energy. So these examples are just a prelude to the painting I will be doing of a tree. Keep these things in mind that while it is good to consider the contour of any element, focusing on this without the gesture and the life of that object that you're painting will result in a form that is flat and lifeless. So in this example I hope you can see how I I'm sorry I took the reference image away but I tried to create the gesture and the motion of this tree, its curve and its life with almost like a dancer. Our strokes as artists can have energy, life and movement and fortunately these things can be learned. I am proof of that. I had the most stiff and static trees when I first started so don't lose hope.  And I promise the actual painting tutorial is coming soon but first I'm going to give you a little sneak peek into something that I have a longer and more detailed tutorial on right here on the Monet Cafe channel called Drawing and Painting Trees. I'll try to put a link or maybe at the end of this video. Now this has to do with math and numbers so don't freak out though it's really easy. It has to do with something called the Fubonacci sequence and trust me this is really easy math but literally it is the code that is within nature and how things grow and in the video tutorial that like I said I'll try to provide a link at the end of this video and it reveals how trees grow, their branches and their pattern and it's really cool, interesting. I had a lot of my patrons who watch this video say oh my gosh I went out and looked at how trees grow and it really is according to the Fubonacci sequence. Not that you have to draw your trees in this way and you can shape them in various different ways according to the type of tree but it really does help you to understand better how trees grow and how to better represent trees. So check that video out. Now let's get started actually painting a tree. All right so we'll start with a pretty common tree shape which I think is probably like an oak tree and this is a lovely oak tree from pixabay.com and I've saved a collection of gosh I think close to 90 tree photos in my album. All right so I'm just using some of my little new pastels made by Prismacolor. I'm also using a sheet of gray tones Strachmore paper. I've been using this a lot lately. I find that pastels work quite well on it. You can't get the layering that you can get with sanded surfaces but I still am able to get quite a bit of layering. Many of my last videos have been using this surface. I also will most likely be using my Sennelier Paris collection set. I have it sitting conveniently right next to me and so I might grab some of those too. So first let's get started here talking about or creating this tree with some of the concepts we've already talked about thus far using contour value and gesture and keeping those things in mind. Now don't get frustrated. These don't happen right away. It does take practice. Trust me I've been doing these things for years and I still need to get better. So I'm looking now this tree happens to be I cropped it to an eight by ten or should I say ten by eight format and we've just got a little bank. This tree is on right about in here and I know we've got a trunk coming up. Keep in mind that Fibonacci sequence concept and what I'm trying to do I'm going to go ahead and mark where the top of the tree is. Sometimes this helps if you can kind of get a general idea of where some of these things are. Oh it's wider than you think. That's why it's a good idea to go ahead and do some of this. This would be considered the contour. It comes over quite far. This is a wide tree and then it comes in right about here. We've got comes out with a little dark area here. It's hard to tell what part there's so much green around. It's kind of hard for me to tell what part I think there's a big gap in there and yeah and then all of this comes down kind of behind it. That's what it seems to be anyway. All right something like that and then on this side we've got still working on contour. We've got kind of a little thing that comes out here. I can't tell if it's a branch or a limb but you know what these things don't matter. The brain sort of figures things out. So once again we've got our big shape up here. Come in and up here and a little indention there and then we're coming in and out here. I said it's deceiving how large this tree is so that's why it's good to keep an eye on your proportions of what you're drawing on and I do think this comes down lower than I had done so I'm going to bring it down a little lower and make my hill more like this. We've got a little bit of a shadow. It kind of helps just keep things in perspective. All right so now we've got a general idea of this tree shape and that's what that would be called the contour. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and add in some of the values. I love using these little new pastel prismacolor pastels because you can just turn them on their side. They're great for sketching. I'm going to keep it a little bit light but what I'm doing is I'm just looking at some of the areas of value and they're also kind of gathered in in clumps in a way and typically you get darker values in towards the trunk of the tree so and usually lighter values or towards the outside of the tree. Also too we can kind of see that the sun is we've got a shadow cast like over here so it's probably like this way. We're getting a lot of light like right in here so let's just get in some value real quick and then I'll keep working. All right now we're going to start working with some some gesture and we've got just a general idea of values in here. I can tell once again like that Fibonacci sequence this is kind of that one of the larger sides to the trunk and also too these things skip along we're going to have foliage in front of it so don't make your trunk all the way solid kind of pay attention as to where it gets dark where there's leaves in front and then you're kind of varying your pressure as to where you put your your trunk marks. This has a lot of foliage in front of it here a lot of foliage in here and then we've got some some trunks that are kind of turning into branches and coming up little dark areas here there and everywhere and the great thing about painting trees is it's okay if you get a leaf out of out of place you know whatever usually that's okay so it's not as specific as say a person or a pet so that's a good thing. All right also too keep in mind that a tree is not flat it's got three dimensions we've got branches or masses coming towards us and going away from us so we don't want our tree to feel flat. Some of these branches in here are kind of going off and away into the distance they're going away from you so you know we can occasionally throw in things that look like they're prospectively going off in a different direction away from the viewer. Here there's a little area it's kind of dark got a few branches dark in here to get it too dark right in here because I'm going to add some some highlights in there it's a little bit more dark in here and because with pastels we can layer that's why it's okay to just get a general value study that's a little bit dark perhaps but we know especially if you're working on a sanded paper that we're going to have some layering ability. I want to keep these outside areas pretty light I don't want a hard edge and I want to be able to do some negative painting with some sky holes I do want to accentuate the gesture a little bit more of this tree kind of going up a hill and it's kind of leaning more that way all right so there's a general idea we've got a little gesture we've got a little contour and we've got some values in that should be fairly easy I am going to go ahead just for the heck of it and get in some of this this background here I did like how that hill was kind of coming back this kind of comes down here sloping down and then it goes kind of back here almost like it slopes up again back there okay and then we've got some other trees back in here I won't get too crazy with that because this is just not supposed to be too uh too difficult here we'll just get some value back here how about that just to suggest something else going on back here and that's the way it works really when things are receding into the distance you're not going to see a whole lot of detail the color gets lighter usually duller and the color is usually cool off a little bit so so that should be good I am going to go ahead and get this shadow in a little bit better it's like it goes uphill it's kind of neat I like that goes uphill quite a bit actually and that really gives it a little bit more of that three-dimensional form there's another shadow over here I kind of like that all right so we're getting our value in here and then we'll be able to start adding some color and interest to this tree all right now we're going to be giving the tree some form and some value and some color and later we will be adding the negative spaces in here so I'm going to go ahead let's see what I've got here in my little new pastel selection here this is what color is this let's test this out here see where can you see better probably over here that's a I don't even know what that color is but I'm going to use it to get some value in here and typically if you're going to do pastels as from hard to soft that's the way you want to go you want to use your harder pastels first because they won't layer well later on top of the soft pastels soft pastels usually you can get on last and they're more vibrant in color and so that's a really a general rule of thumb with pastel painting I'm not really loving this color it's kind of too dull but I'll go ahead and use it to get a little bit more value in here all right so we got that going now let's see here I think I will get in some of these if you squint your eyes that's a good way to see things I think I'm going to go ahead and get even darker values in here with for the tree trunk a tree trunk doesn't always have to be brown either you can use various colors I've got a nice dark here let's see how dark that is that's that's actually really dark green in the Paris collection here's a really dark blue that's pretty dark so I'm going to get this darkest dark that's pretty blue you might have to do something with that and we've got some shadows coming up in here too oh I like how this uh sometimes too once you um get it in then you can kind of start really looking at where some of the gestures are in the tree and how things are curving or moving this is when you can start really getting some gestural energy going on in there a little thick there and all I'm doing is really squinting my eyes and looking at where these these shapes fall I notice there is kind of a decent amount of dark going on in there and I'm going to go ahead this is pretty dark in here I'm going to layer over it with some lighter values this is still like I said back in here there's like a branch that's going back once again like that three-dimensional feel and I'm just going here and getting in the little areas of dark kind of scumbling scumbling just means making little random shapes and pressured so I'm getting it in and again there's a pretty much dark in here in this middle portion of the tree there's a little decent amount of dark kind of going on up in here here there's really some darks going on here and notice one other thing I am not painting or drawing leaves I have not drawn a single leaf and we don't really see leaves when we're looking at a tree even a tree at this distance is pretty close I mean I could zoom in and look at individual leaves but it's our brain that's imagining leaves really when things are far we don't see the leaves oh when I first started painting I messed everything up I was drawing leaves on every branch it was just like nuts we have a little bit of dark what is something I'm having a hard time seeing what's part of this tree and what's part of the background the values are really similar all right so that's a general value going on of some more darks I think I will go ahead and get this dark down in here this shape it's like there's a little area right underneath it and then it comes kind of like right behind it and kind of goes uphill like that actually that's not as dark down there okay so there's some more darks in there now I'm going to go ahead and get some of these middle values of the greens and I think for that well I'd say middle to dark let me see this or this here that's also almost too dead kind of like that other little prismacolor I was using so I think let me look over here in my greens this is a really dark green I think this is a terry Ludwig and yeah it's pretty dark I may just pop in a few of these in because it's going to give some color interest with that blue often it's good to kind of combine some colors and not just let the colors they stand alone they have so much more interest when you combine things and you know of course I'm working on unsanded paper so that means that I don't get as many layers and so I need to keep that in mind look at the screen this is a nice green it's a dark but it's um it's a little cooler so I'm going to get this in some of the areas like a lot of this is um it's pretty dark I'm just giving little shapes here and there and um bringing it down through here pretty soon I think I'll go ahead and add where some of the light is uh there's more light in here than I'm seeing over here and there's more light here and here there's some of these darks over here kind of behind once again three-dimensional that tree is things are going back in the distance and maybe a little bit down in there get this in just to fill in some of these holes all right and now I'm going to go ahead and get in more of my warmer green see how much lighter I got here and I know there is some of this up in the top branches here and there see how they're layering on top if I didn't layer that dark down this light wouldn't have anything to rest upon and all I'm doing is kind of looking at the shapes notice I'm turning different directions to to get the general idea of the shapes of some of these clumps of value that's really all it is it's little clumps of value and color and I'm looking at how they're shaped which directions they're going in keeping some of those darks back there and just paying attention the tree starts to take form at this at this point that's still pretty dark back in there but I think I'm going to hit just a little bit of these lights down in here a little bit a little bit there's a little area kind of coming out here like this and in here is where there's some branches coming towards you once again three-dimensional these are coming at you like like in one of those 3d movies where things are kind of coming towards the viewer it's a little bit down in here that's still pretty dark and this is all pretty dark over here there's a little bit in here that's a little lighter once again kind of three-dimensional coming at you so this tree won't feel flat and maybe a little bit more in there I can go in and add more darks later if I would if I want to I feel like this is showing up a little too much there but uh I'll fix that in a minute I don't want to over develop this right now okay all right so um maybe a little more in here this does have some little bits on the tops here it's got an interesting shape and I can get more of the shape of this tree when I um when I carve in some sky holes all right so there's that now we're going to go to a little bit brighter lighter value and um a green that is more like a tree green you would think of this is probably too light let's check it out yeah let's see if I can get something in this set it's not quite that bright this one is a little bit better it's a little more dull let's see maybe maybe not yeah okay so I'm just going to go in here now I'm going pretty hard because once again I'm working on unsanded paper I'm losing some layering ability remember this one that was three-dimensional and coming towards us oh yeah I'm losing layering that's because these are so soft uh senile pastels are really really soft and I've got one that's kind of coming out here towards the viewer okay but this is starting to make that three dimensional shape and form just continue to look for those brightest areas I think I may go ahead and add some of this in here and do one that's a little bit brighter for these so I'm going to go ahead and fill in some of this some of these areas this one like I said it's not all that bright just a couple little spots in here you want to make sure you don't do this everywhere on the tree if you start doing the same thing all over the place it's going to lose its form I have done that I am the queen of doing that there's a little spot right here that's got some bright so um who said it I think I heard Marla begetta say it first if it's everywhere it's nowhere so that is so true because then there's no point of interest it's all the same all right so I think I am going to go get one of those brighter greens I don't know do I want a green more like this more like this see this one's cooler so let me get some of those cooler greens maybe yeah I like that green that's nice yeah I go a lot of times for the warm greens and um I I think sometimes these cooler greens really look interesting okay now this is the area where it was to me if I squint my eyes here here a couple little other areas are the brightest once again there are areas that are kind of coming at you and um there's a couple in here and you could get a lot better results with this if you um if you use sanded paper so all right now I'm going to take this lighter one this is where I'm going to add just the lightest highlights so I've used about what four values of greens sometimes these Sennelier pastels um when a pastel is machine made this is something I heard I can't remember what artists said it um sometimes they have little ridges on them machine cuts them when they're hand rolled for example I got to go to mount vision um pastel manufacturing company because it's in Tampa and I live in the Tampa area so I have a video actually on how they're made and they are hand handmade and rolled so they have nice smooth edges all right so I feel like I've lost a little bit of the gesture of this tree so it's looking a little too round and clumpy so I'm going to go in and get some more dark scenarios then I'm going to carve in some negative shapes all right I feel like that bottom of the trunk needs some um more darks that are warmer it's a little too cool resist the urge to paint what you think is a tree shape sometimes our brains get in the way I say that often when I'm painting or teaching our brains like to paint what we think something looks like and sometimes we're wrong and sometimes the thing isn't shaped like we're imagining it's shaped and it's a little uh it gets if it can be cliche or boring when we when we paint like that you know this is that area where I said there was some activity coming like moving away and I'm not painting leaves I'm just doing little shapes that's really given the feeling that something is further away that is quite dark right back behind here and this one too see how that's going to make it feel like it's behind the tree and I'm not pressing hard I'm using varying pressures um as I paint now I'm going really light here I knew I wanted a little bit more dark my um new pastel wasn't allowing me to get some of that so I'm just coming into some of the areas where I feel like it's a little darker and then um got a shape here let's see keeping that Fibonacci sequence in mind not that you have to paint things to where somebody's going to come along and count a one one two see I've kind of got three things going on here um this would probably be more like the one and the two right here but um it helps you in knowing the fact that there's going to be multiplicables and they get smaller as they branch out so that's usually a really good thing to learn when you're trying to paint trees I I recommend you do that little Fibonacci sequence thing this is the point on the Monet Café channel where the commentary ends you will be able to see the rest of this painting process sped up to some lovely music now my patrons if you're watching here and your patron you're going to get the extra content you're going to get real time from here on out I'm also going to be talking a lot about sky holes painting negatively with trees but don't feel bad Monet Café it's my patrons who actually allow this free content on Monet Café and for me to be able to keep doing this so God bless my patrons and God bless all of my subscribers here on Monet Café I appreciate you all right guys enjoy this to music and I will be back at the end you can see the final and I hope you are learning a lot and if you decide to recreate from this tutorial I would love for you to tag me on social media sites so that I can see your lovely creations tag me on Instagram at Susan Jenkins artist and my Facebook page is the art of Susan Jenkins be sure to find me there and follow me as well all right guys here we go I hope you guys have enjoyed this tutorial and I hope I broke down painting trees in a way that will help you have fun and create some beautiful trees of your own as always I'd love for you to share and tag me on my social media sites if you create from this lesson you can see all of those right there in this end screen and if you'd like to become a patron that would be awesome we have a great family and I love seeing your artwork all right happy painting and God bless


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more coercive partnering situation but anyway a public private partnership that provides their brand name products for free irs free file provides two ways for taxpayers to prepare and file their 2021 federal tax return online for free irs partner sites traditional irs free file provides free online tax preparation and filing options on irs partner sites individual taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes that's the aegi is 73,000 or less qualify for any irs free file partner offers free file lets individuals electronically prepare and file their federal income tax online using guided tax preparation free fillable forms so for taxpayers sues aji irs greater than 73,000 there's the free fillable forms option there's a link to that here now note that they like to say that they offer these free fillable forms to be able to say hey we the irs are providing something this is my interpretation by the way that that we the irs are providing something free for everyone but most people aren't going to really want to use the free file fillable forms because if you're below 73,000 you're going to want to use the software because it gives you a huge double check over your numbers and some guidance even tax professionals would greatly welcome and do use software and two because if you're over 73,000 your tax return is likely more complex and therefore you're not going to want to do free fillable forms you would think which is closer to basically just filling out the forms by hand which means you're way more subject to to miss changes to the tax law that might be picked up from software it gives you some double checks some diagnostics on it and you're and you're way more likely to make math errors at that point now it might be the case that 73,000 if you're around there you still have a fairly basic return I mean your return might actually be easier than a low income individual at these at this point because the credits involved on the low income side especially like the earned income credit these refundable credits when they're refundable when they're not refundable the phaseouts are way complex but as your income gets you know over this amount it also gets complex because now you've got more money and possibly more income sources and so on savings and different sources of income on that side of things and due to having more money you might want to try to be investing your money in such a way that you have tax benefits for it and so on so you have planning components with it as well so if your incomes above this threshold you probably don't want to use the free fillable forms I would then maybe think about paying for the software even though you can't get it for free so that it can help you fill out the form accurately even though you have to pay for it or paying for someone to help you with the tax return meaning a tax professional if you're looking for a tax professional I would then look for somebody who's going to help you not just get to the immediate paying point of filling out the return but also is going to be there for planning in the future due to the fact that your income is starting to rise to the point where you might need some more planning stuff any case it provides electronic federal tax forms that can be filled out and filed online for free to use this option taxpayers should know how to prepare their own tax return so always start at irs.gov irs.gov irs.gov v for victory over taxes so from the home page select file your taxes for free use the irs free file lookup tool there's a link to that here to narrow the list of providers and the browser all offers page there's a link to that here to see a full list of providers follow the link to the chosen irs free file providers page prior year returns can be filled can be filed electronically only by registered tax preparers there's a link to that here for the two previous tax years otherwise taxpayers must print sign and mail prior year returns so notice that the irs is all about this electronic filing but that's that there's still a limit on the electronic filing so if you if you're going back like five years then you might not be able electronically file because they don't have the whole system up for you to do it you know back then you gotta actually you got a paper file so filing on time actually saves you pain and agony as well because then you should be more it's more likely you're going to be up to date on the current tax code your current tax situation you'll be able to use the electronic filing you might have access to the free file if you get a few years behind trying to recap and and file past past tax returns gets complicated because you might be past the statute of limitations in the first place and then you might have limitations on how to file getting software that's old to help you out to file it and so on and so forth so the irs directory of federal tax return preparers with credentials and selected qualifications lists qualified local providers there's a link to that here so there's links to the free file stuff so you still have to pay your taxes but at least you know you don't have to pay for the software is the idea you know they so that's the iris getting you into the room and then they hang you over the shark tank but you know at least you save some money because they're gonna they're gonna you're gonna the sharks gonna eat you no matter what you're gonna lose an arm it's okay just just deal with it any case there'll be a link to all this stuff in the description


Well nothing major, oh some major frame rate lag, but we're able to come out of that with out. Everybody and welcome back here to torque drift on the mobile platform. We are here today to just basically get some tandems and talk about torque drift. I know it's been off the channel for a little bit of time and that is because I've been setting my focus on a lot of other things, but torque drift is coming back. So what's next for torque drift? New car builds, new cars, maybe some new tracks, stuff, whatever the devs are going to throw at us. Torque drift will be going back to the channel regularly for you guys. Well some other mobile drift games and stuff like that. You know I did do some Harashia drift and maybe some Car X Drift Racer 2 will be coming to the channel as well. But before we do that we got a couple crates to open. I think we just got two. The two crates are open. We are still rocking the S13 with the underpowered V8. It is handling very well and enjoying it a lot. Unfortunately I'm hot on my tires that I like. So we need to get some more tires and hopefully they are available to be bought. I hope they are not. Snow Falcon tires are here for me today. So we're just going to be running what we have on the car. So we're going to just do some tandems. So like I said some new car builds are coming. Some more tracks and stuff like that probably as well. So torque drift is coming back but today we're just going to get back into the swing of things. Because I have not been on torque drift in a little bit of time. Like I said I've been focusing on a lot of other things. So we're here at Calibanks. We're rocking our S15 867 horsepower with some custom tires in the front. And some import tires in the rear. Looks like we're going against Kogan. Kagan however it's pronounced. So let's see what we can do on our first run here on torque drift. In a good week or two time since the last video. I'm going to throw it in. Kick it up there and get that supercharger spinning up on the wall. Nice and close. A little handbrake there off the gas. Transition smoothly. There's a little bit of a wonky transition but we are still up on the wall there. I would have liked to have been closer. I'm going to try to run the outer wall. I'm going to bail on that a little bit so we don't smash the wall too hard. Unfortunately not the greatest run. We didn't get a clean lead that well. So we only got $100,000. So I bailed out so I didn't smash the wall. So we do have a little bit of a deficit to take off here in our chase. But I feel we can probably come up with a better chase if we were actually too gained some acceleration speeds. So we're going to kick the same cut the angle and work our way back up to the top. It's definitely been a minute since I've been here on torque drift. Kind of bring the old cars back and apparently wow. So you don't play for a while. That's what happens. So this run is null and done. So we are going to have to hopefully we can get a rerun and redeem ourselves with our S13. Because unfortunately that was not how I wanted to start off. But just goes to show you all those people that are extremely good are playing a lot and continuously playing. So we're going to try this again.  Probably air we go reruns. Now we can get a better lead. Hopefully get a better start on our chase in our S15. Here we go. We're going to kick it in. Really high angle. We'd like to be closer to the wall. Good thing we didn't lose it. Just a tap on the wall. Nothing major. Oh some major frame rate lag. We're able to come out of that without totally biffing the car into that wall actually. Now we're going to run this out our bank. Much better run than our first run. So a almost sketchy run somehow turned into a very solid lead. 164 to 140. So now we have a very solid lead that we're going to be able to capitalize on as long as we can have a solid chase. Here we go. We are on acceleration now. So we are not as far back. Try a little bit squirrely. So again once again we're going to cut the angle a little bit. Try and run the wall a little bit. It's possible a little bit far behind. So we're going to try and cut this angle like that. Kind of over rotate a little bit. But we are still there. That random blue E46 who's got some power on us. Apparently he can definitely pull on us. So we're trying to stay as close as we can. I'm not sure if we're going to be able to take that win with that. Because well we didn't have a very good chase. We were still able to take the win and he doesn't want to go again. So we did take the win there. I don't know how we managed to save that run before smacking into the wall. So let's bring out old faithful E46. And we need to get some grippier tires on this thing. And we're going to send this thing here at Calibank. So we're going to check the other tracks. E46 one of my solid cars looks like we're going against SD. So this should be a very interesting battle. We're going to see if we can't manage a very solid lead. Transition in. Right on the wall. I forgot how well this E46 handles. Just a little scrape on the wall. Quick transition. Oh all the wall taps but that is not going to help. Unfortunately we got too greedy in that lead. On that inner bank. Oh a little bit too much sauce. Got too greedy and unfortunately smacked the wall hard. We were on a very good run. So we're going to give this another shot. Hopefully we can not destroy ourselves in the car. Because unfortunately man we didn't do too good on the runs. So we're going to initiate in a little bit sooner. Kind of throw some more angle at it. And we already are smacking the wall. Losing our points here. Apparently the E46 is not handling as good as I remember it handling. I know I said it handles super good because it does. But apparently I've just lost how to drive. Okay that's a little bit better. Now we're running the bank. Now we got a little bit better of a run. Not the best run. But we did smack the ball on the entry. So only 88. And I bet you he's going to have a way better lead. 129. We're still going to chase it. And then maybe try one more time. Now we're going to probably switch up tracks. So Turtrift. More content coming. Promise that it will be bringing Turtrift back regularly on the channel. As well as some new content coming probably from the game devs. Hopefully very soon maybe some new tracks and new cars. And stuff on those lines. Kind of getting the doors though right now on this MX5. Trying to stay as tucked in as we can. I mean I'll take that as a chase. So we managed to somewhat come up with a decent chase. Like I said we're probably going to try this one more time. We will try it one more time. Hopefully we can get a solid lead if he lets us. Not sure if he's going to he will. So one more time here then we're going to switch up tracks. So definitely wanted to bring Turtrift back for you guys. You guys have been asking for it. So Turtrift is back. And like I said we'll be bringing more. So make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter. All the trip out in the description box below. You guys asked for it. We're here today just throwing some tandem. Trying to get the feels back here for Turtrift on the mobile device. We are using my Galaxy S10 Plus. That's a much more solid lead. We kind of fifthed at the end but we managed to keep our clean lead somewhat clean. So 150 and he ran out of time. He wrecked it. So we're going to give him one more shot and then we're going to switch tracks.  We're going to go see what other tracks we can run. So if there's something specific you want to see here on Turtrift let me know down in the comment section down below. Like the car build, the tunes. Maybe a build breakdown on some of my cars that you haven't seen yet. Or maybe some updated settings and stuff of those nature. It's a much better lead now. Taking out those cones. And we are definitely going to finish that with a very very solid lead. We're getting the flow back here on Turtrift. 180 definitely feeling the flow again. 180 to 164. So we do have a bit of an advantage going to the chase and he's not even going to want to go. He's going to take a forfeit. So we're going to change up tracks and he's not going to want to go again. Unfortunately he saw the 180 and said nope I'm out. So let's see what other tracks we can do real quick before we end this episode off. We got big M and we have tunnel edge and we have mad mic test drive on full track. So we're going to go to tunnel's edge because I do love the tunnel edge track. We're going to bring out the S15 and hopefully we can nail some solid run here on tunnel edge. To end this episode off we're almost on the tires. So I don't believe that's actually a Torque Dev. I don't believe it is. Very well it could be though because he would have a special game tag. On there. So we're just going to initiate in a little bit sooner than I wanted to. Try and make sure we get all those clips. Wow the frame rate lag. I'm not sure why I'm getting some lag recently. Oh and that was a big over rotation. This is a bit of a very sloppy run. Kind of got thrown offline by a little bit of a frame rate lag. And it could be due to the fact that my phone battery might feel a little bit low. But we managed to finish the run somewhat decent. That was a very sloppy lead. So it looks like we are 108 to 56. So I'm going to go with that's not a Dev. Because I feel like the Devs would definitely have a much more solid lead. We'll see a lot sooner than him. Put a handbrake in and kind of all over the track. Smack it into the wall. Just trying to get as much tandem points as we can. But unfortunately the line is kind of very very wonky and sideways. We're managing to somewhat stay behind him. Get as many points as we can. We'll finish that off with a very nice little tandem slide. And he didn't even chase us because he said no. So we're going to do that one more time here in the S15. So like I said if you guys want to keep seeing torture, I think you guys have ideas on what you want to see on torture. Let me know down in the comment section down below. If you're not subscribed do tap that subscribe button. I would appreciate all the support and we're going to try that again. So like I said I will be going on vacation in a week. But I will be still bringing the content for you guys. So don't worry about that. I have stuff planned to get videos for you guys for daily uploads and stuff while I'm away in Florida enjoying a little much needed vacation from work and everything. So we'll be a good time to be away trying to shade in. There's a bit unorthodox runs for me from what I'm used to. But like I said I haven't played this in a good minute and it just goes to show. So in order to stay consistent you kind of got to stay consistent in playing. I still can shred and throw some decent lines. But my lines are not by far perfect at all. And my scores are a lot higher before. So 87,000 to 119,000. I don't think we'll be able to take the win on this but we're going to give it a shot. That eight six. Black and red. I'm going to try and just throw it in. I'm going to get as much tandem points as we can. I misjudged his transition there. And a very very shallow very shallow line that I was not prepared for. And massive clutch kick angle from that Corolla. Just got to try and stay tight, stay nice and tidy. And not as tidy as I'd like to be but we managed to somewhat stay there. Don't think it's going to be enough to take the win so we may do one more run with him if he lets us try and get a solid lead. And like I said it was not enough so we're going to try to go one more time. If he lets us if not we are.  So we can end on a high note. Initiate in. Much better of initiation right on the wall. Going to kick this out. Going to run this nice and tight up on the wall. Manage that frame glitch a little bit. Tandem on the wall. Long handbrake grab to catch that. Link that in a straight without having a mongee. Bring it out as close as we can to the wall. Hard flick back. And this is going to be a much more solid of a lead. That's the leads I'm looking for. Still not the highest I've ever done but a 181 will do. Because he had a 225. So I got bested on that.  So as always I thank you guys for watching and coming back. I appreciate all the support. And as always I'm EvilRabbit and I'll see you guys on the track. Too soon. Too soon.


They was going really, really good. It was a good Saturday. The weather's nice, it's hot outside. Just end up going to the pool a little while ago. And it was, things were good. Then with the Ravens, it's like, all right. Devin Williams, who got put on the reserve, did not report this. He's back on the squad. So he got another opportunity to make it. And it's like, all right. Cause again, like we explained earlier, when it comes to Ravens, and especially good news from the Ravens and especially after last year, a lot of us Ravens fans are like, this is why we are so, what's the word I'm looking for? We are so hesitant. We can be very hesitant to celebrate good news because a lot of times it follows up by something like this. And it's tough because Eamon Marshall, man. Eamon Marshall is somebody that we just never really saw. I know he was active for like a couple of games, but we just really never saw him like that. And I remember initially when they drafted him, I was thinking, okay, yeah, could this be Jimmy Smith's replacement of the future? Bigger frame quarterback, physical quarterback from USC, but it just never ended up working out. And he ended up spending more time like on injured reserve and whatnot than he did on the field. And this is an unfortunate situation, man. So the Ravens, they did something today. It wasn't a surprise that they wave cut released whatever time you want to use. It wasn't a surprise that they did that because I think going into this season, that was the expectation reason being because they obviously Marlon Humphrey, Marcus Peters, they were coming back. They signed Kyle Fuller. They drafted two cornerbacks, Jalen, Mar-Davis, and Pepe Williams. And then on top and Brandon Stevens, he was coming back to, you still got competition with Audarius Washington, who they really, really liked. So the secondary, just the cornerbacks alone, it is loaded. And it's a good problem to have, but at the same time, when you have a good problem like that, where you have so much depth, not everybody is going to make the team, obviously. And even though a lot of us didn't expect him to make the team, I was still personally excited for him because I'm like, okay, maybe this may be the training camp. Maybe this may be the preseason, where we really get to see him, excuse me. Maybe we might have swallowed a little bit of pool water, gotta check. But anyway, this might have really been the preseason where we got to see Eamon Marshall. And maybe he could carve out himself a spot on a practice squad, or maybe he can carve out himself a spot on somebody else's team. If he can go out there and shine with his limited opportunity, but now that has come and gone. And it's a tough business. You know, the NFL is a very, very tough business. Now, with that being said, and hey, just a quick reminder to y'all, I mean, even though y'all don't need to remind you, y'all knew this already, but with all, we keep hearing more and more, every single day now, we keep hearing about all these transactions. We keep hearing about all these roster moves. So that lets you know which part of the off season that we're in, even though the off season is done. It's over with, that's a wrap. There is no more off season. But something that is a bit off, or a lot of people from it are off the team now, is Raven's 2019 draft class. And that has been a topic of conversation for a while now. Really ever since this past season, since this past off season, there's been a lot of talks around in the 2019 draft class, especially that being Eric DeCosta's first draft as the full GM, obviously not his first draft because he had something to do with a lot of Raven's drafts over the years because he's been here for forever. But him as the GM, that was his first draft class. And when you look at the return on investment, it's like, oh, when you look at the impact, it's like, eesh.  They traded him away. They did get a first round pick for him and they ended up selecting Tyler Lindenbaum. But Hollywood Brown, who was a 2019 draft pit, he's gone. Jaylin Ferguson, he's a part of this list, but he's not a part of this list for obvious reasons. That rest in peace with Jaylin Ferguson. So he's not, y'all get what I'm saying. Third round pick, Miles Boykin. They released him this off season. Now he's over in Pittsburgh. I hope he does well there. Shout out to Miles Boykin. Y'all know how I feel about Miles Boykin, but we'll see. Fourth round pick, Justice Hill. Who, oof, boy. Justice Hill, career with the Ravens has been very up and down. Man, I feel so bad because recently, especially recently, there's been so much talk about J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, and them coming back, especially after how last season for them went, well, really didn't go because they didn't play because Gus Edwards went down in training camp. J.K. Dobbins went down in the pre-season game, but Justice Hill was another one. He was another one that went down in training camp, I believe. They said he was looking good. They said this and that, and then boom. So, ACL, just like, man. So with him, it's gonna be tough for him to make the roster. Because J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, Mike Davis, Beatty, it's tough, man. He got a lot to get through. Then Ben Powers, Ben Powers is another one where it's tough. It's gonna be tough, man. He did, what he does have in his favor is that Ravens always use offensive linemen. But with Ben Powers, he did get a little bit of starting last year. Remember when they kept doing that switcheroo with Ben Powers and Tyree Fielder, Ben Powers, Tyree Fielder, and I was like, man, what are they doing? Then they threw Ben Cleveland in anyway. So, we'll see. Fourth round pick, Eman Marshall, just talked about him obviously at Daylan Mack. I, did he make it one year with the Ravens? Maybe he stayed on the team that first year. Maybe the Mack stat he stayed with the Ravens was one year, I don't even remember, but I know he left, I think he went to the Lions or something, and then I forgot what happened after that. And then Trace McSawley, who they traded to the Cardinals last year. So, it's like, man, wait, there's just that lack of impact that they got from Eric Dacosta's first class. Now, granted, as these draft classes have gone on, he's gotten more and more impact over the years. But that's what you look for in a draft class. That's what you want from your draft class. You want high impact. So, just something to think about and something to reflect upon as they just got rid of another person from that 2019 draft class. But shout out to Eman Marshall. Hope everything works out for him. Hope he can get another opportunity and really get an opportunity and really just show, like, that he could do some stuff. But I would like to see what he can do on the NFL level. But anyway, I appreciate y'all, love y'all. And just like Eman Marshall, when it comes to him being with the Baltimore Ravens, I'm out.


At its 129th session, the program committee requested that the Office of Evaluation conduct a real-time evaluation of FAO's COVID-19 response and recovery program. The evaluation was launched at the end of January 2021 and covers FAO's COVID-19 responses that have been grouped under the program, from the onset of the pandemic to date, irrespective of budget source or geographic location. The evaluation assesses the progress made and provides feedback to foster organization-wide learning, inform decision-making, and promote accountability. The evaluation is being conducted in various phases, and this presentation covers good practices and lessons learned emerging from program implementation, specific to the humanitarian response and the provision of knowledge products and data services in support of recovery efforts within the COVID-19 pandemic context. The evaluation adopted a consultative approach, including creating core learning groups of key internal stakeholders to serve as a sounding board, validate findings, and assist in the uptake of the good practices and lessons learned. In a mixed methods approach, the evaluation collected data through document reviews, interviews with and questionnaire to stakeholders, and additionally to obtain greater insights on knowledge products and data services, alt-metric and cyber-metric analysis were conducted. Grouped under overarching criteria, the good practices and lessons learned provide insights into FAO's response to the pandemic. What follows is just a sample of those identified, covering two of the criteria, relevance and coherence. The good practices and lessons learned identified emerged from specific contexts and care must be taken in not overgeneralizing their scope and applicability. Although the reports elaborate on the various contexts, some important points to consider include the crisis affected both beneficiaries and FAO personnel, the importance to reduce risks for all stakeholders, and the operational constraints faced. In terms of increasing the relevance of its response, defining strategic objectives early on proved critical. Senior management stressed the need to prevent that the health crisis became a food crisis, adopting a systems perspective of the agri-food chain and applying lessons from previous crisis that showed the need to anticipate and address the continuity of the food supply chain. Likewise, protecting livelihoods and mitigating gender-based violence while following containment measures to prevent further transmission of the virus was also stressed. Some existing monitoring, early warning and information sharing systems proved to be an effective way to provide relevant information on the global crisis situation. Similarly, conducting joint assessments with partners enabled the pooling and leveraging of expertise, resources and networks for a wider coverage and a more timely and intersectoral assessment and response. A good practice related to coherence was the response of management to the crisis so as to foster technical teams and personnel at headquarters and in the decentralized offices to work as one FAO, increasing horizontal and vertical cross-collaboration in the development of knowledge products and data services. A lessons learned pertaining to coherence was that the crisis situation made it difficult to devise how to synergize different types of knowledge products in order to create bundles that would target more comprehensively specific categories of end users. As such, it was clear that the pandemic posed a number of unforeseen challenges that affected the development of knowledge products and limited the extent of their dissemination. The final component of the real-time evaluation will identify examples of results that can be attributed to the program. A number of country case studies will also be conducted. The criteria used to select the countries will include program coverage and geographic representation among others. OED will consult with regional offices throughout the process.


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. The story I'm going to tell you today is primarily directed to the young men listening in. You know, fellas, these days it seems that your standing in the club or gang is gauged by how strongly obnoxious you can be to those senior and junior to you. We didn't have a youth problem in Naughty Pine for many years until a newcomer moved into our midst. His name is Jim Phelps. He had the nickname of Muscles, and he came from Central City to live with his aunt and uncle. Why? Because he was in so much hot water in Central City, his parents thought a change was the best idea to solve the problem. And they were right. Only the solution didn't come as easy as they thought it would. How about calling this story the measure of a man? Hey, man, we sure got this town jumping since you came, Muscles. Ah, what'd I tell you, man? Yeah, we got him so scared they'd back off the sidewalk when we go by. You gotta be tough in this game, boy. You know, real tough. Yeah, Muscles, you're right. It's like you say, you gotta be real tough. Ah, you catch on fast, Boone. Oh, man. Ring-a-ding-a-ding-ding-ding. Look what's coming. Ah, you've got good eyes, Mick. Not as good as mine. Oh, yeah? Why not? I've had mine on her a long time. Say, there's a real living doll. All right. Ah, she's not fresh, though. Yeah? Why not? It's Henry Scott's girl. Henry? You don't say. What am I supposed to do? Drop dead? Hey, here she comes. Would you mind stepping aside so I can pass by, Muscles? Yeah, I mind.  Never. Yeah? Why not? Isn't that obvious? Ah, leave her alone, Mus. Leave her alone.  Come here. Oh, catch her, Mick. You catch her, Speedo. She's halfway down the block. Kicked off her eye heels and cut right out. Pick up her shoes. She'll have to come and get them from me. Yeah, but what if she brings along Scott and his pal, Bill Jefferson? That creep. He don't scare me. You gotta be tough, see? Real tough. Hey, how'd you make out in the exams, Mus? Ah, no good, Spoon. I ain't got time for that garbage. Hey, how are you gonna graduate? I will. Just wait and see. Hey, man, Principal wants to see you. Let him come and see me. I ain't got time to go see him. Oh, man, you better go. All right, all right. I didn't tell you to sit down, Muscles. I'm tired. Stand up. All right, all right. What do you want? Muscles, you're not graduating this year. What? Are you deaf? Listen, Connors, you better graduate me or else. Or else what, Mr. Tough Guy? You'll find out. You'll find out. Oh, don't you threaten me, young man. I've handled tougher punks than you and made men out of them. There ain't nobody tougher than me, see? Nobody. Please, Henry, please. Don't argue, Mary Lou. I'm gonna get your shoes from Muscles. No, no, please. If you ever like me a little bit, I can get another pair. I have lots at home. I don't really need them.  No, please don't argue. My mind's made up.   He tried to insult me, but he didn't get that far. Please, please. Mary Lou, it's a matter of honor. Why, that punk pushes everybody around, but this is one time he isn't gonna get away with it. I can take him. Alone, yes, but he won't be alone.  Sure, I know that. I'll bring your shoes over this evening. Oh, what's wrong? Henry's gone to Muscles' house to get my shoes. Alone? Yes. Do something, Bill, please. They'll beat him to a pulp. Come on. We'll jump in the car and get over there. Boots, moss. Don't kick him. Don't kick him. I'll show this sunny school boy what it means to be tough. You want shoes, you'll get them. Hey, you can't do that to Muscles. Open the car door, Mary Lou. I'll help Henry in. We'll get him to the hospital. How do you feel, Henry? Oh, miserable. I got the shoes, though. Yes, but I can't wear them. They're wrecked, and so are you. It wasn't worth it. Not at all. Oh, I don't know. I gave a pretty good account of myself. Yes, you did, pal. Muscles is here in the hospital, getting his head sewed back together with that judo foot throw you gave him and the other two look like they ran into a truck. Mary Lou's right. It wasn't worth it. Huh? What do you mean? Muscles insulted a girl. What's more, she happens to be my best friend. Don't tell me a fella shouldn't fight to defend his girl. I'm sorry, you misunderstood, pal. I didn't make myself clear. Street fighting tufts like Muscles, Spoon and Mickey isn't going to change them. I didn't expect it to. At least they know I'm not afraid of them. Well, I could take them on one at a time. They know now they get a beating. A beating of their lives. What would that do as far as they're concerned? Huh? What do you mean? They'd only get revenge, Henry. Don't you see that? I never thought of that. I should write. I could never get one of them alone anyhow. Well, hero boy, at last you're beginning to see the light of day. Two broken ribs, 19 bad bruises and a couple of lacerations later.   I'll say you do. An awful mess. But I still think you're a wonderful guy. Thank you for fighting for me. But please, please don't do it again. Okay, Mary Lou. Hey Bill, when can I get out of this body and fender shop? Anytime you feel you're up to it, Belle. Okay, maybe in a couple of hours. For right now, this bed feels so good to me aching bones. It's dumpy, would say. Hold it, Connors. What is this? Grabbing you guys. Hey, somebody's coming. Listen, Connors, you better graduate me or else. Here, let's go, you mugs. Are you this morning, David? No, Browder, Judge. Thank you. Glad to hear that, David. Very clan. I'll say. I'll still say that y'all had the judge sign a general complaint warrant. Let me pick up those three birds and pluck their tail feathers before they knew what hit them. Maybe a little working over with a wubber hose would teach them something. Cal, you shocked me. Does the Pine County Sheriff use rubber hose on prisoners? You know better than that. I've never used violence on a prisoner in my life. Maybe to take them, but not after I locked them up. But in this case, this punk muscles needs a lesson. A hard one lumped on his head. Gentlemen, please sit down. Gentlemen, the solution to the problem in hand is not through the strong arm of the law. I don't know about that. Maybe we've been too soft with a strong arm of the law. Cal, hold your tongue and let the man have his say. Go ahead. You're closest to the problem. I've been a teacher and a principal for many years. I've never run across tough kid-like muscles that is not quite so tough. Well, you've been close to it. I've handled them all without too much difficulty and well made good citizens out of them in the long run. Yes, you have, David. I've been second judge for many years and I know of your good work. And Bill's another man who's done more for the young people in this town to keep them constructive and an asset to the community. What muscles needs can't be administered by the law. He needs to be placed under Bill's supervision by the court. Muscles and his two cronies. Well, I'm getting too old to handle lads like they are, but, well, Bill can do it. I strongly urge that the judge do so. Well, it's worked before. I don't see why it shouldn't work now. What did you say, Bill? Would you accept? Yes, I'd be pleased to accept, Judge. I know you've done a lot of fine work with teenagers, Bill, but I think this time you'll have your hands full. In fact, I think the only place for those three is behind bars in ten hours a day on a rock pile. That'll take the starch out of their ambition. Perhaps, Gal, but it'll also make them bitter and hardened criminals. Well, you have a point there. But some men are born to be criminals. Not in God's sight. They're not born to be criminals. They're born in sin. That's what makes them criminals. They can change if they let Jesus Christ take over their lives. Bill, pick the lads up and have them in my chambers first thing in the morning. I think talking to them in my chambers will make a little stronger impression than talking to them at home or elsewhere. You're right, Judge Wayne. They've got to realize that the strong arm of the law is aware of their foul behavior. Hey, man, what's with you? There was a big meeting at the hospital in Conner's room. Yeah, so? Man, it was at Cops and Judge White. So what? The meeting was about us, man. What? Yeah. We're in trouble. Hey, man, I'll see it. We are. Here comes Johnny, he's Jefferson now. I'm gonna blow this joint. You ain't going nowhere. We'll take care of that cop. Hey, man, you and whose army? He's no pushover. There he is. Close your trap. I'll take care of him. I'm tougher than he is. Tougher than anybody. Tell him to come in, Mick. I'll be right behind the door. Come in. Hello, boys. Where's Muscles? Uh, he cut off, sir. You sure? Yes, yes, sir. He's been gone a long, long time. Well, then let's open the door all the way. Come on out from behind the door, Muscles.  You ain't taking me in. Look, Mickey, he's out cold. Hey, man. Don't get excited, fellas. I made a talk to you, not fight. Muscles will be all right in a few minutes. He isn't hurt. Just had the wind knocked out of him. Let's sit down, relax, until Muscles regains his breath. All right, cop. What do you want? Judge White wants to have a talk with you, fellas, in the morning. Yeah? What do you want to talk about? I'm sure you know, Mickey. Yeah, I guess so. What's he going to do to us? Throw us in a pen? That depends on you, fellas. I just want to warn you not to leave town. Yeah? What do we cut out of here?  Very simple. Big talk. Big talk. Yeah, yeah. Maybe we'd better listen, huh? All right. We'll be here in the morning. All right? Don't stop by at 9 o'clock to pick you up. All three of you. You think you're wasting your time on those correctors, young fella? I agree. In way. What's that mean? I think Spoon and Mickey, not too bad. And the under-influenced of Muscles. Take Muscles away and other boys be all right. Nope. I can't agree to that, Gray Wolf. Not this time. This time, one bad apple's ruined the others beyond saving. How about the Gospel, old timer? The Lord can change them. There are some folks who just won't hear the Gospel, sonny. And these three are some of those folks. How are you going to get Muscles to listen to the Gospel? Tell me that, will you? I don't know. What's a lead-pipe cinch? An ordinary approach won't work. We're not going to use an ordinary approach this time, pal. Hey. Bell's cooking up something. What is it? I'm not through cooking yet, pal. I'm going to Central City to talk to Muscles' parents. I'll be back late. Okay. Say, who's going to watch the house so they don't leave town? No one. That's one thing they must do. Leave town? Mm-hmm. I'll see you in the morning, fellas. Henry, Gray Wolf, and Stumpy stood looking after me with a dumb-founded look on their faces. I knew they didn't agree at the moment with what I had in mind, but I had work to do before morning, and there wasn't much time to do it. I hoped that Muscles, Spoon, and Mickey would hightail it out of town pronto and fast. How far do you think we can get before morning, Muscles? Plenty far. Stop wearing and keep walking. Hey, man, we ain't got no gun for protection, you know. We don't need guns. Hey, I never thought about that. What if we run into a mountain lion or a bear? Yeah, man, what if? What if? You guys worry too much. Let's get moving far away.  Hey, Bill. Looks like a reception committee. What's up? You outta know, young fella. You let them fly the coop. They did, huh? That's fine. Bill, have you lost your senses? No, John, you haven't. It sure sounds like it. You've pulled off a lot of wild winds, Bill, and I've been in on most of them when they've worked. But this time you've gone too far sending young tufts like that roam the country. I agree with the shirt. Well, take it easy. Let's not get excited. This time, as my guess, they're headed for the mountains right now. Well, they could get killed out there, young fella. They won't get far enough to be in the danger zone before we catch up with them. Huh? We're gonna trail them? Certainly. We're gonna trail them and protect them. Well, I feel differently about this now that you've opened up the secret drawer of your mind. In fact, I think I get a glimmer of what you're up to. Yeah, John, should I? Bill's gonna let those youngsters find out just how tough they really are. That's right, old timer. I hope it works, Bill. You haven't changed your mind, I could judge. No. But if this doesn't work, I'm afraid I'll have to rule muscles incorrigible and send them to the penitentiary. I see a sign where tough guys begin to tire up. Already? I'm just getting old muscles warmed up and we're doing double time. Yeah, sure enough. They're lagging a bit here now, all right. I expected that. Henry, do you think you're up to the double time pace? Sure. I'm fine. I would miss this for the world. You sure? How about your ribs? Well, they hurt once in a while. It's worth the pain to see my revenge. What kind of talk is that for a Christian? If there's any revenge to be taken, we'll let the Lord do that. His wisdom is greater than ours. I'm sorry, I didn't mean real revenge. You know the hateful kind. But boy, I do want to see muscles apologized to Mary Lou. Yeah, sort of why. A lot of his own free will, pal. Now let's push along now. We can't leave those young fellas unprotected come dusk. Man, I've had it. That's no joke. Hey, man, me too. How about you, big man? Not me. I guess I'm tough for you guys, huh? Oh, yeah, sure. How about getting some wood so we can make a fire, big man? You want me to go out there now when it's getting dark?   You're not a big enough man to admit it. Hey, man, I'm hungry and cold and thirsty, too. Anybody got some water? Muscle's supposed to have the canteen. It's empty. Great. No water. What's a big idea? Ah, you drank as much as I did. We'll find some in the morning. Sure, sure, big man. It might be bad water, too, in poisonous. Yeah, I was supposed to know good water from bad out here. No food. Hey, Mick, how many matches you got left? Huh, none. I might have told you. We're real tough guys, all right. We're real tough. We'll probably die out here, and everybody'll be real happy about it.   Hey, hey, hey, Spood. You got him sized up right. He ain't no tough guy.  Ain't you a big man? He sure is. I'll let him shiver by himself. What a couple-ass saps we were to let him get us into trouble. Tough guy. Huh, huh. There they are. They're no fire. No food or water. No nothing. Oh, they're in bad way, all right. What are you going to do now, sonny? We'll go in and make camp.  Stumpy. Yep. It's running around under your scalp now, sonny. You stay out here and give them the royal treatment. The royal treatment, you said? That's what I said. That's what they'll get.  Yeah, you better believe it, Gray Wolf. Boy, I feel a lot better since you guys showed up. Yeah, man, me too. I don't know what we'd have done if you hadn't shown. It's colder out here tonight than it was last night. Sure, you're on higher ground. Well, let's hit the hay, fellas. That's for me. Good night. Plenty tired, too. Before we drop off to sleep, let's have devotions. Devotions? What's devotions, Bill? Read from the Bible. Pray. Yeah? What's it sound like? Listen, find out. Open my testament here to John 3. There we are. For God so loved the world that he gave the only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Shall we pray? Our Heavenly Father, we thank thee for the Lord Jesus and for the life that we have in him. We ask that thou wilt keep us throughout this night, give us a good rest, and help us tomorrow to do our work as unto thee. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, fellas, that's what it sounds like. Muscles, you haven't said a word since we got here. That's a tough guy. Sure, sure. Real tough. Good night. What are you doing, Gray Wolf? Fire a good low and put more wood on it. What's that? Cougar, he come close to camp. Shoot it! Shoot it! Not shoot what cannot see, not foolish. I build up fire, he stay away. You go to sleep now. Gray Wolf, fire's low. I put more wood on it. You do that. What's that? A grizzly bear. Shoot! Shoot it!  Get the wood, Muscles. Good. How come you haven't slept? How'd you know that? We learn to sleep with one eye and one ear open out here, Muscles. The wolf's going to attack. Shoot!  I'll build the fire up, that's safer. I can't see the wolf anyhow to shoot it. I gotta talk to you, Bill. I gotta. Just a minute. Okay, Stumpy, come on in, hit the hay. Stumpy, was he making all those animal sounds? Hello, Mr. Tough Guy. You're going to stop shaking now. There ain't a wolf bear cougar within a day's ride from here. No, maybe a black bear with no grizzly. And the tough critters hang out in the tough country. I don't like to be harsh on you, boy, but you asked for it, didn't you? Yeah, that's right. Now you want to talk to me? Yeah. You asked me why I didn't say anything before. I was thinking things over, I guess. I know you fellas had to double time it after us to catch up unless you used horses. We walked, honey, every inch from down. That takes conditioning.  I'm not tough. Not really tough the way it counts. Sure, I can beat up old men and guys like Henry when there's three against one and insult ladies. I'm not proud of that, really. I'm not tough at all. Not like you guys. Muscles, excuse me. Jim, you've got one chance to prove how tough you are in the right way, the only way. You can prove how much backbone you've got. How can I do that? Make a public apology to those you've offended and hurt in front of Judge White. Oh, I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. The question is, do you really want to? Sure I do. I really do, I think. But I could do leave the couldn't part up to me. Now you get some sleep. So long walk back to town. There aren't any horses hidden along the trail, you know. See, there ain't. You'll have to walk the whole distance on the bottom of your own feet, honey. At least your feet will be tough after this hike. Jim, I understand from Bill that there's something you wish to say in front of me. Well, I... Oh, relax now, son. This isn't a courtroom trial, you know. You're among friends, believe me. If you only knew how many friends you have in this chamber right now, you'd be amazed. Yes, sir, I... Jim, remember what we talked about walking back to town? Yes, Bill, I do. I... So terribly right now. Please help him. Please, Lord, help Jim. Give him strength. Mary Lou? Yes, Jim? I'm sorry to accept my apologies for the way I acted. I bought the shoes and all. I accept, Jim, gladly. Henry? Yes, Jim? I ask you to please accept my apologies for the beating we gave you. I accept it, Jim. And I forgive. Mr. Connors? Yes. I don't know how you can forgive me for beating you and threatening you, but even if you don't, I apologize and ask you forgiveness. I'm really sorry. Jim, it was worth the beating just to see the change in you. Worth every pain of it. Thank you, sir. Thank you. That's all I have to say, Your Honor. Spoon and Mickey also apologize for their parts and the whole thing and they changed for the better. If you're wondering what Jim and I talked about coming back to town, it was the verse where Paul says I can do all things through Christ who strengthened me. Jim did accept the Lord on that return trip and has now become a tough guy for the Lord, tough in the respect that he's not afraid to stand up for Jesus. Well, see you next week for more Adventure with...