DATE: 11/29/2018

WHERE: The Vineyard

THE PAX: DixieChick, HankHill, Spock, WestSide, Beater, TinyTat, Trill, DrumStick, SwampDonkey, MatchStick

Total # of PAX: 10

Number of FNGs: 0

QIC: MatchStick

INTRO:

    So I talked a lot of smack trying to drum up some support for The Vineyard.  Some people laughed, some people cried, I think I hurt Aquaman’s feelings.  Oh well, its all in good fun and I love all of you guys!  I pulled into the AO at the same time as HankHill, luckily he was there to help me test my new Groupon idea.  It was terrible.  I brought a fire hydrant and called it a Groupon.  It was super heavy, awkward to hold, had to be held by two people. PERFECT.  What could go wrong, right?

WARM-O-RAMA:

    So the first thing we had to do was to get the Groupon out onto the football field.  The only problem was all of the gates were locked except for the furthest one away from us, which meant we had to haul this stupid Groupon for about 150+ yards just so we could get started.  Once the Groupon was placed onto the track, we performed a short Mosey out into the middle of the field for an extended disclaimer, seeing as how YHC was very nervous that a toe was going to get smashed or a back thrown out. SSH, Sun gods(oyo), and of course some slow Weedpickers.  We then performed another flawless Mosey back to the corner of the field for the explaination.

THE THANG:

    TinyTat graciously volunteered to be team leader.  His responsibility was to make sure that the Groupon came with us everywhere we went and that everyone was safe and not too tired carrying it.

    The PAX was told that they must perform the same exercise at each corner of the field, then sprint to the next corner, exercise, Bear crawl to next corner, exercise, run backwards to next corner, exercise, bear crawl backwards to original corner and wait on the six.  All of this was done while TinyTat made sure that the PAX were rotating outPAX carrying the Groupon to each corner.

First lap – 50 merkins at each corner

Second lap – 50 squats at each corner, this is when Westside couldnt contain his joy anymore.

Third lap – 50 LBCs, due to time we had to leave the Groupon behind on this one.

    The PAX finished up strong with much grumbling and complaining only to remember that we had to haul that stupid Groupon all the way back to my truck.  The beasts of the Vineyard stepped up and we arrived back at the vehicles for about 2 minutes of Mary.  Great work guys.

CIRCLE OF TRUST:

    TinyTat was our 6th man today.  He’s getting ready to turn 40 in January, which the PAX quickly down played.  He went to UGA, GO DAWGS!!!  He has a basketball team worth of kids, two of which were adopted.  He also explained to us how he got his name, the story was funnier than I thought.  He was originally named Tramp Stamp but he couldnt explain to his kids what a tramp is and requested a new name.  He ended up with Tiny Tat, I believe, due to his extremly small tattoo in his ankle.  Glad to have you as a member of our PAX Tiny Tat, thanks for all you do brother.

    The only prayer request today was for the teenagers who were involved in the accident on tuesday.  They attend Creekview High School, so some of our PAX are effected by this as well.  We dont always know why bad things happen but me must trust God.  He has a plans for us.  Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  We can rest on that promise that God made to his people.  We still asked for healing to the kids still in the hospital and for comfort for all of the families involved.

Naked-Man Moleskin:

    There was much mumble chatter about how close everyone was to Spilling Merlot,  we found out that HankHill and Swamp Donkey are sympathy pukers(which was entertaining to say the least, who knew throwing up could be so funny).

    We also had a good group of PAX hangout afterwards in the parking lot for some fellowship, thanks guys.

And of course, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS goes out to WESTSIDE for being the first PAX to SPILL MERLOT at this wonderful AO.  Now I hope he follows through with his promise of putting the name of the PAX who is first to merlot at The Vineyard on the Vineyard T Shirt.  We will see.

SYITG