Hammerhead, Squirrel, Knobby and the Git-Git Stick (Flagship)

8 Pax answered the call this morning and got better.  

The Pax: McQueen, Jigsaw, FroYo, Josey, Beano, Dockers, and Samsonite  (Q: Squirrel)

The Scene: Warm & Moist…unless your with your M it’s not how you want your morning to start

Warm Up:  Arm circles & Cotton Pickers

The Thang:    Box trot to the Football Field

Break into two teams 

There were eight cones set out 10 yards apart.  Start point was marked by the shovel flag.

Each individual on the team completes 100 reps of each exercise.   After the entire team completed their prescribed reps (yes, they could help each other complete the reps) they moved to the next cone.  Mode of transportation – Bear crawl

 

Each team was provided a Weinke & given to the assigned QB.  Should the QB fumble/lose the Weinke the opposing team is awarded 3 points and the team must continue performing the exercises, using the other teams Weinke. 

The exercises:

PAX 1 / 5	PAX 2 / 6	PAX 3 / 7	PAX 4 / 8
Merkins	Squats	Pickle Pounders	American Hammer (50-4 count)
Burpees	LBC’s	Carolina Dry Docks	Dolly’s
Imperial Walkers (50-4 count)	Mountain Climber (Count every right)	Diamond Merkins	Flutter Kicks (50-4 count)
Monkey Humpers	Wide Merkins	Freddie Mercury’s (50-4 count)	Overhead Claps
Peter Parker (Count every right)	Air presses	Lunges	Knerkins
SSH	Dying Cockroach (50-4 count)	HillBillies (50-4 count)	Shoulder Taps or Nipplers you choose
Lunges	Squat Jump	SSH	Peter Parker (50-4 count)
Burpees	Merkins	Burpees	Merkins

*Bobby Hurley – When one does a squat and slaps the ground with both hands like a Duke basketball player, then jumps up and raising arms as if taking a jump shot.

 *Air Press – Shoulder press just against the air

 *Knerkins- Chuck Norris Merkins….done on the knuckles.

First team to finish bear crawling to the last cone wins….and then the team goes back to the ‘losing team’, helps them complete their reps and bear crawls alongside to the finish.

 

Announcements & Prayer Requests:

1. Still looking for some volunteers for First Friday Beer pouring.  It’s gonna be a big crowd with the Women’s Open here that weekend
2. Monday Night is the Spirituality of the 12 Steps

 

Squirrel led the men out in prayer.

 

MOLESKINE: Squirrel, Hammerhead, Knobby & the Git-Git Stick

Six Pax were blessed to go out into the community and serve and got better for doing it. 

The Pax: Bourne, Striker, Chitwood, Flying Tomato, Hammerhead and Squirrel

The Scene: Casar, NC Tekoa Foothills Methodist Church Camp

The Thang: Handyman’in

On a recent trip to Casar, NC (pronounced Kay-Sur) to the Tokoa Foothills Church Camp an event occured that goes down as historic in your humble correspondents (YHC) memory.

 

While Flying Tomato and Chitwood were “diligently” hanging non-leveling ceiling fans, Bourne and Striker were busy hard at work putting in baseboards, YHC and Hammerhead had run into an obstacle trying to use generic mounts to hang Monticello 2 sinks to the wall. Off we went to the nearest “big” town plumbing store in Shelby, NC (pop. 20,000).  Our host advised us to go to Hoyle plumbing and so we did. 

Entering we saw the proprietor was busy with another customer on the phone and as while we waited another gentleman, rather portly in his mid to late 60s, walked in. We’ll call him Dun.  

Dun advised the clerk, “I think this here part is what’s causing my leak”.

 

Clerk, “why maybe it is, have you changed the fittings? ‘Cause that’s a good faucet there. Just changing the stem ain’t gonna fix it. Naw, it won’t. Now holt on while I help these other fellas that came in right ‘fore ya.”

 

As the clerk turns to Hammerhead and I we present him with our issue…getting the proper hanging bracket for the sinks. Squirrel puts the sink on the counter to provide the standard of what is needed.  He listens intently and then asks, “where y’all from?” 

 

Hammerhead tells him we are from Pinehurst and are over helping the Takoa camp. 

Thinking intently, the clerk pauses then says, “Is that the old Camp Loy White?”

Hammerhead nods.“I know that place, we used to go there as kids. Nice of y’all to help. Just didn’t know if y’all were Yankee’s. I mean, we could use the help here, but just wondering.”

Hammer, chuckling, “nope, we’re from North Carolina.”

The clerk nods with approval and scurries off to the back to find the brackets and returns with brackets that are pretty dang similar to what we had shown him, but worse.  It wouldn’t fit at all.

Clerk, “well most folks just grind it off to fit.”

We look over the wrong part Hammerhead tells the clerk we also need three wax rings and a number of 1⁄2” PVC traps to complete installing all the sinks.  Off the clerk goes to the back.

 

Squirrel is getting antsy at this point and calls the sink manufacturer. After finding the model number the manufacturer confirms what bracket is to be used.

The clerk had delivered the wax rings and PVC and was pecking through his computer to find the bracket.  Squirrel presents the clerk a piece of paper with the manufacturer’s bracket number and asks if they can order it.

Clerk, “Yep, that’s the same number what I found too.”

Door rings (you know the bell hanging over the door) and in enters a “lady” in her mid-late 60’s. We’ll call her Flo.

Clerk, “I’ve got a line going, you’ll have to wait.”

Flo, “oh Hon, I’m getting paid by the hour, take your time.”

The clerk turns back to his Commodore, mumbles something then says, “well y’all know about Knobby?”

Hammerhead shakes his head.  Squirrel, “oh yeah.” Trying to play it off to get the hell out of there while looking around to ensure nothing is between Hammer, Squirrel and the door!

Dun, (chuckling) “Ah now, Knobby that there is a – a – whatcha-call-it?”

Clerk, “A….Bigfoot”

Dun, “yea, a Sas-a-quatch. He’s around here ya know. Heck, Joe’s down the street got some Git-Git sticks you can buy.”

Flo, “yep”

Now neither Hammer nor I had to say anything for we were dumbfounded. I’m sure our looks said it all.

Clerk, “it’s a stick that you shake at Knobby.”  It’s at this time the clerk puts his hand up and shakes his fist in the air about shoulder height. 

Clerk, “then as you shake it ya say Git-Git so it chases him off.”

Again, Hammerhead and I just sit there…likely with blank looks not exactly knowing what to say.

At this point Flo picks up the “lull” in the conversation and begins to join in, but on a different track.  

 

Flo, “Dun, you seen all the new vee-hicles at [one of the local churches]?   YHC doesn’t recall the name of the church and it doesn’t really matter.

Dun, “Yep saw them the other day.”

Flo, “Mmm-mmm won’t catch me in there!”

Dun, “My wife went to a weddin’ there. Got inside and they LOCKED the door!  Sure did!!  Just like, chunk-click.”

 

Flo, turning to Hammer and me, “that there church, they got more money than any of the churches around.”

Clerk, “Sure do! Heck they got all kinds of fancy, high dollar cars there and columns on the building! I mean big ones.”

 

Flo, “Well they pass the bucket around.”

 

Squirrel is thinking, “the bucket” is what they call the plate to put money in.  Hammerhead has his best poker face on.

 

Flo, “if you hear folks around here that are hoarse it’s likely they go there. They yell until they throw up in the pail. It gets the demons out.”

Dun and the clerk are nodding in agreement on this point.

The clerk is busy writing out the receipt on a carbon sales book, making sure to get everyone’s name and phone numbers to call them when the proper sink hangars come in.

 

Flo continues to talk, switching to how meth is running the county and, in her mind, is influencing the politicians. Many head nods as the clerk tears off the receipt.

 

Squirrel picks up the sink and moves…quickly…to the truck.

 

The trip back to the Takoa camp was filled with wonder. Something like, WTF was that?

 

Now you may wonder what the message is behind this. Get in line. I’m not sure either, but surely there’s a message in there somewhere other than, make sure to get some Git-Git sticks!

 

Aye!