DATE: 12/10/2018

WHERE: The Clinic

THE PAX: Gut Check, Drumstick, Huckleberry (Respect), Mandals, Tardy, Daddy Daycare, Homer (Respect), Quackers, FNG (Dapper Dan), Good Hands, Hard Hittin’, Band Camp, Absentee, Hooch

Total # of PAX: 14

Number of FNGs: 1

QIC: Hooch

INTRO:

Shuffle over to YHC’s truck bed and pick up your two Christmas gifts.  Amazon Prime has free delivery, and free returns; so does your Q, so don’t be ashamed to bring it on back after 45 minutes if you don’t like it.  A classic red brick in each hand, the PAX headed off across the field with the call to mosey.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Laying a finger aside my recently bloody nose (just woke up that way), up the chimney we rose to the MARS field to circle up for the disclaimer and 12 IC SSH, which are slower and more deliberate with a brick in each hand, be assured.  Not wanting to let the PAX miss out on the fun to come, enough warm-up was determined to have been had, so back down the stairs, ehem, or, uh, the chimney we came with a bound.  Circle up in the middle of the field for the 12 Days of Christmas (no, the Mole, I did not copy you. I announced it last week, and you and I once again just think alike and both have awesome ideas.  Yours was probably way better than mine).

THE THANG:

Most exercises performed with bricks in hand in 4-Count Cadence to 12 or 20 Reps, unless otherwise specified:

On the ___ day of Christmas, my Q love gave to me:

1st. A partridge in a pear tree (Al Gore/Hug a TREE)
2nd. Two turtle doves (Bricks from hips, extend out and up to shoulders, like purdy DOVE wings)
3rd. Three french hens (Carolina Dry Docks, hands on bricks, peck the ground like a lil’ HEN)
4th. Four calling birds (the dodo BIRD – look it up in the lexicon, add bricks in hand)
5th. Five gold rings (RING of fire – plank position around, each pax sequentially performs 5 burpees)
6th. Six geese a-layin’ (Monkey Humpers, bricks behind feet, resembling GEESE LAYING eggs, fine to behold)
7th. Seven swans a-swimmin’ (Freestyle SWIMMIN’ strokes with bricks in hand, aquatic center folks take notice)
8th. Eight maids a-milkin’ (lying on back, punch bricks up ‘n’ down, resembles motion of MILKING some udders)
9th. Nine ladies dancin’ (the DANCING bear – look it up in the lexicon, add bricks in hand)
10th. Ten lords a-leapin’ (LEAPIN’ lunges, alternate left to right lunge jumps)
11th. Eleven pipers piping (ELEVENS with brick curls on sidewalk A and squats or squat jumps on sidewalk B)
12th. Twelve drummers drumming (DRUMMING motion with arms full extension and, of course, bricks in hand)

We worked our way up from the first to the twelfth day, then back down to the eighth, skipping the ninth on the way down, because of some brick-labor-induced brain fog.

CIRCLE OF TRUST:

5 for 5 = spend the first 5 minutes when you arrive at home from work within 5 feet of your wife, asking her how her day was, seeing how you can help, listening to her feelings.  Needless to say, we married men all need to be challenged to do this.  (credits to Regi Campbell, “What Radical Husbands Do”)

We lifted up Absentee’s brother, John, as he sees his need for the Lord; Hard Hittin’s S-I-L, Teresa, as she battles cancer; Huckleberry’s daughter, Tara, as she navigates college graduation and the daunting task of seeking an opportunity to start a career; and for Quackers’ mental acuity as he pounces on a final exam today and kills it.  What a privilege we have to speak directly with the maker and sustainer of the universe – let us not take it lightly, nor leave it by the wayside.  He is faithful, and we can trust Him in all things.

Naked-Man Moleskin:

The Pax enjoys the full pot of coffee only when there are cups from which to drink it. Otherwise the entire pot goes right back home.

The Men of the Clinic are brutally strong and performed all exercises as if they had but a mere feather’s weight in each hand.  But for some reason there wasn’t much mumblechatter going on.  Could not have been that the work was too difficult.  Just sleepy this fine Monday morning, most likely.

I am truly grateful for each man that posted this morning.  Special shout out to my men, Huckleberry, Tardy, and Daddy Daycare in their return to the gloom.  Get after it, men, and bring another man who needs F3 next time you post.  Make it soon.

Merry Christmas