Day: November 18, 2021

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Eat, Drink, & Be Merry!

What:  Annual F3-Gastonia Christmas Party

When:  December 11th, at 6 PM (7 PM meal)

Where:  Lewis Farm , 330 Lewis Rd, Gastonia, NC 28054

Who:  PAX and significant other / guest  (book your babysitters now!)

Dress:  Dressy Casual / Holiday Festive

Food & Drink:  Buffet-style with smoked meat cooked by our own PAX-Chefs, potluck sides and desserts.   Drinks – BYOB.

Cost:  $10 per PAX/couple

What to bring:    (see link below) and BYOB

Important:  Please take a moment to click the link below to:

• HC (RSVP) to help us get a headcount
• Help us know who will be bringing what
• Sign-up to bring food items
• Sign-up to bring non-food items

Link:  HC/RSVP, Sign-Up for Potluck & Other Items

Things to look forward to on this special evening, besides a delicious meal, sparkling dinner mumblechatter, and the company of the PAX and their special guests are:

• Nan’tan Remarks
• Awards Ceremony
• Music
• Dancing
• Karaoke
• A highly-entertaining M.C.

Note:  Dinner will be served at 7:00pm, but please plan to arrive early (6:00pm-6:30pm), to have enough time to set up your potluck item on the buffet table, and to mingle, too.

Hope to see you there!

Today at Diablo Sammich men rucked. Men mumbled. Men sweated. (Is that grammatically correct?) Men pushed it.

Those men?
Tube
TimeFrame
CastleRock
Hermy (R)

Men listened to TimeFrame tell a nail biting thriller about a dead body under a blanket.

Prayers: Tube’s aunt battling cancer, TimeFrame’s mother losing a close family friend, and CastleRock’s aunt in a nursing home with only a few days left.

Announcements: Diablo Sammich will be closed on Thanksgiving day.  Everyone agreed to do it that way.  Diablo folks are welcome to attend the Pub 5K. 

Thought it only appropriate to start the workout with I’m back and holding out the superman until it hurt…. anyway here’s how it went.

9 pax started out … and then the legend came in hot… the Leppard ( more on that). We started out with some mountain climbers to get the heart rate up over 170 ish…  then superman hold it in reverance of Cam Newton ( cough, cough) anyway.  I forgot Tiger was in timeout and stayed behind and did a block workout and nap while we were doing all this other stuff…

Let’s mosey down the road across the street. Leppard and two or three others he was influencing lagged behind pretty heavy. I believe he was still working from home and hindering other pax. Finally they got across the road we went around the circle and I keep looking back NO Leppard and a few others he was hindering. So me the old guy has to let them know the office meeting is over and we will run out of time if you don’t pick up the pace.  Across the road to the pier we all meet up again and form groups of 3 for some Dorie… I decided that since everyone was being influenced by the Leppard we would run up the wheel chair ramp… you know with the handicaps we were facing. Anyway 100 plank jacks one hand out ( whah) 200 something.. can’t remember alzheimers  and 300 american hammers… Slaw said he was having minstrel cramps on these not sure what that was about. Ner up the hill lot of crying and business meetings on the way… did a count down Purple haze started at a 100 instead of 10… then mosey away at every light post stopped and did different painful exercises  with 25 in each set such as diamond merkins, werkins, CDD, big boys, lunges, skipped, kareokee, monkey humpers, chest slappers… you get the picture it was time to walk a ways back with some other exercise I forgot the name of… old people damn!

Anyway thanks for the opportunity for the old guy to embarrass you all ! First time at the legendary Midoriyama so I got all I could done.

Prayer request:

Montross sister to give birth, Broke’s mother, people battling addiction, domestic violence up, Mayor’s M , Tiger’s M and stepsons, people going into the holiday season with family and loved ones..

Announcements:

Christmas town 5K 11-27, Christmas party 12-11, Service project meets 11-19 at 15:30 at salvation army main street Gastonia,  Clown car to Mooresville on 11-20 05:30 am leaving from Rose’s in Belmont, Tiger looking into possible trip to Rice and Beans next week before thanksgiving will need more volunteer’s

Good showing for first installment of Rice n Beans.  Virus and his M, Anchorman, Big Pappy and 2.0, Sprinkler, Tiger, Paperback Writer, and Hey Jude made the trek to Charlotte to serve.  We have another opportunity next week.

We won’t make this a weekly thing unless enough interest exists to do so, but next week being Thanksgiving week is presenting some challenges that we can likely help with.

Will keep you posted

Tiger