Monthly Archive June 2018

A Beatdown from the 80s

We had ten strong men that were ready to go then High Tide rolls up on two wheels, unloaded his family of bells, said his hello’s, then we were off ready to jam with some pandora 1980’s Rock.

the Thang:

Warm-Up

SSH x 15

IW x 15

Low slow Squat x 10

Merkins x 10

Mountain Climber x 15

Circuit time (5 rounds)

Clean n Press x 8 each side

Snatch x 8 each side

Shoulder Press x 8 each side

Swings x 20

*modified to 5 each side after round 2

Partner Up for Pt1 Farmer’s carry 50yds (timer) while Pt 2 does Goblet squats; then Pt 1 KB lunges 25yds while Pt 2 does Good mornings

Back to circuit style

  1. Single-leg Dead lift x 5 each side
  2. Double or Single or nothing Windmills x 5 each side
  3. Rinse and Repeat
  4. Snatch to Overhead Doubles Squat x 5
  5. Dragon Flags- doubles press or hold while doing 5 slow leg lifts
  6. Rinse and Repeat

A Smokey Favorite to end:  Merkins to Thunderstuck

COT

Ye Ole Moley:

Not too much to say other than (as usual when YHC is Q), YHC smoked himself

Welcome Site FNG- Minor League- great to have you out to try a gear workout; come on back out!  And Baracus was advertising Skunk to him as well.

Geraldo was there without a Lucy or a Ruck, odd for him but he was doing just fine with the ole KB

Purell and Whip really like the Dragon Flags- might see that one from them when they Q- of course with the press

High Tide has allot of bells- perhaps he’ll send one off to college with Low Tide in the fall- and big congrats to Low for graduation this week.

Voodoo (always with great form) was one of the very few to do the double windmill (strong!!)

Enjoyed Qing Meathead as it’s been awhile.

 

 

 

Bagpipe

A strong showing of 20 men posted this morning.  Here’s what we did:

No FNGs but disclaimer given in Wells Fargo lot.

Warmup: 15 merkins, 15 squats, 15 plank jacks all IC.  (Frehley’s was very indignant that we went with old school squats and not the modern, low, slow variety.  Suck it up buttercup.)

Mosey down to Lochness and grab some wall.  Staying together for exercises: 10 derkins IC, 10 jump ups, 10 dips (IC).  Hard lap. Plank to wait for the six and 10 hip slappers IC.  Then 10 burpee jump ups, 10 incline merkins IC, 10 dips IC. Hard lap.  Six inches to wait for the six.

Mosey out of there and out to the parking lot behind Bagpipe Hill.  Get in groups of 3.  P1 and P2 stand ~25 yards apart.  P1 does jump squats, P2 merkins.  P3 bear crawls in between to start the relay.  Each guy goes down and back twice.

Circle for Mary.  Go around the circle for PAX choice.  7 sets total.

Mosey back to Lochness to finish the workout with a 12 minute AMRAP.  Run the loop and do: 15 diamond merkins on one patio, 15 wide arm merkins next patio, 10 pull-ups on exercise trail, repeat.

Announcements: Q101 school this Saturday.  6 a.m. at Panera – one hour workout + hour of discussion.  Timekeeper finishes book this week and moves to a conversational format for the summer. F3 Dads Saturdays at 9 a.m.  Look for the white tent at Brixham Green.  Check out Slack for upcoming announcements on Fix it For Christ and The Sandbox.

No, I’ll have it right here.

11 men gathered in a middle school parking lot on a cool-ish (but still 99.9% humidity) morning. After the obligatory lap around the parking lot to pick up Floor Slapper, we headed down to the track for a roving warmup. Clockwise around the track, stopping occasionally for various warmings up. (“You’re making this up as you go, aren’t you?” “No way. The weinke clearly says “Warmup”.”) Then gather at one end of the track to unleash a Dirty McDeuce. Haze brought this back at Hydra a few weeks ago – from the official F3 Nation website: “4 sets of 3 exercises done to 12 4-count reps. Each set has one chest exercise, one leg exercise and one core exercise. After each set of three exercises, you run a lap of a track or whatever else is handy (parking lot, etc.)”. BTW – take a look through the “Exercises” section of that site before your next Q and pull something out that you wouldn’t normally do. Spice things up. I can’t remember exactly what exercises we did. I may have called LBCs twice. Oh well.

After cleaning up the mess from the McDeuce, we ventured over to the sidewalk with the dugouts for a little People’s Chair/BTW recovery. Then gathered at the bleachers for the classic “Partner 1 runs the stairs loop while partner 2 stands around and pretends to do the called exercise”. Finished up with a little Mary, then back to the cars. Boom.

Topics of conversation during the workout:
– Puddin’ Pop and Flutie had a long talk about old drummers from Rush and the Rolling Stones. Apparently the Rush drummer is the best ever.
– The Canadian legends, Bob and Doug McKenzie, whose song “Take Off” included a solo from Geddy Lee of Rush. Not mentioned during the workout, but something from that album (Great White North) that I still use today – to convert from celsius to fahrenheit, double it and add 30. It will get you surprisingly close. You’re welcome.
– Does New Hampshire have its own syrup or is that just a Vermont thing?
– Puddin’ Pop tried to take credit for inventing the Rosalita and insists that 90 degrees is the proper form. I go with 45 degrees.
– Hammy was out there for his second post. Fast dude.

Announcements:
– Get on the Slack channel for #thesandbox. It’s a great organization that helps families of kids with life-altering illnesses. Transporter hooked F3 up with them and there are opportunities to help out. It can be a low stress, no long-term commitment way to help out – I spent two hours cutting a family’s grass; others spent a few hours this past weekend helping a family move out of an apartment. Get on the Slack channel to watch for ways you can step in and help out.

Thanks to Header for taking us out and to Puddin’ Pop for handling the mumblechatter while I was busy leading a workout.

Like a fart…

12 men showed up for my not as often attendance and QIC at Skunkworks.  As we waited for the pre-runners to come in we stretched, grunted, and got ready to GET SOME.

The veteran group understood that I am not a professional.

 

The Thang:

20 swings, 20 squats and find a partner, like sized bell.

Farmers carry to the Lacrosse field with 10 merkin chasers.

Once on the field get on the end line with your partner.

Each team would do 200 reps of each exercise.  P1 Lift, P2 run past midfield and return.  Flapjack until you hit 200.

Merkins x 200

Lawnmowers x 200

Teabag squats x 200

Curls x 200

Tricep extensions x 200

Flutter Press x 200

2 hand shoulder press x 200

Recover

Rack your bell high and mosey back to the parking lot.  Once everyone was in we hit 6:15.

Moleskine:

That was a traditional beatdown the way the boys of Skunkworks like ’em.  Lift and run the whole time with a couple opportunities to catch a breather if you finished early.  The name of the workout, “like a fart” was due to Bulldog saying that the workout was “simple but deadly”.  It was good to see so many guys that I don’t see quite as much anymore now that I’ve been posting over at Hawks Nest or fartsacking.  Everyone seemed to be getting after it but I was in the pain tunnel for most of the workout so I’m sure I missed plenty.  My partner Orange Whip crushed it as usual.  Tackling Dummy said the workout was right in his wheelhouse until he declared it wasn’t. That was closer to 6AM when the #downpainment was setting in nicely.  Perfect weather and field conditions.  Thanks for letting me lead, and thanks to Bulldog for taking us out in prayer.  Good work gents.

Men at Work

Dude, Charlotte Latin was already hard enough to navigate, now they throw in a massive face lift to the campus and all hayul breaks loose.  Must be a nice little assessment to the families going there on top of the thousands that comes off very well-financed hips annually.

So, the title of this BB is an ode to the hard working construction workers that wreaked havoc on my weinke this morning.  Oh, and I’m talking about the 1990 cinema #garbage with brothers Sheen and Estevez, not the Colin Hay led biggest band from Australia (pre INXS).

Mad confusion ensued at 5:20 am, as the PAX were parked all over campus due to the construction madness.  I just drove into the main entrance until I saw Snowflake, Shoe, Chelms, and Dasher having a nice chat.  Hightower and Billy G came in right after me, so we thought we were in the right place.  Saw our fearless site Q Hops pull in, and that was the clincher.

However, Marge appeared from the lower lot, and Hops thought we might have a few stragglers up at the original launch spot.

Gave a lame disclaimer, and Hops led us up and over to the original spot.  Alas, we did see McGee and Schmedium in a state of confusion, but then had the look of Doc Brown when we found them #lybians.  Dollywood came running down from soccer field #10, probably warmed up doing some bicycles, Bale style. #stillbitter

Collected the PAX that we could (word was that Runstopper was somewhere, not sure if he was trying to find us or FastTwitch; or perhaps a trunk sale specializing in spandex clam diggers), and moseyed back through campus, down around the gym, next to football field, then up on a wide open lot for COP.

IW x 15

LSS x 15

HR Merkins x 15?

Mtn Climber x 15

Mosey to next stop sign, get in groups of 3 for (semi half pipe) Grinders

P1 does called exercises at stop sign (LBC, Flutter)

P2 does called exercises down hill at side steps up to MAC center (Dolly, Freddy Mercs)

P3 runs in between

Did this close to  3 times through?

Collect the PAX, run up and over bridge to the covered shelter (has this been named yet?) by the practice fields, find a bench

Dips x 30

Jump/step ups x 20

Decline/Incline merkins x 15

repeato x 3

Mosey down to gravel road around Lake Latin to Buttermaker field, all the while paying praise to Timmy Lupus and his unrelenting resolve.  I’m telling you, if your kids are looking for a true role model, Timmy Lupus is the one for you.  Not only does he take the ketchup in the hat thing pretty well, he also makes the best Martini in the San Fernando valley.  Don’t worry about not being able to hit the cut-off man, the writers respected him so much, they gave HIM the last line of the movie.  Don’t believe me?  Watch it again.

Home plate – 3 burpees or 10 merkins

Run out to right field pole – 10 reg merkins

back to Home

Run to center field – 10 wide arms

back to Home

Run to left field – 10 diamonds

back to Home

Continue moseying around Lake Latin up to Lacrosse/Field Hockey/Soccer field for more Grinders

P1 on near end line doing Dive Bomb merkins

P2 on far end line doing Monkey Humpers

P3 runner

Cut that short to make sure we had time to get back to launch, which we did for some LBC and Rosalitas.

Done

 

Memories

Hops tapped me for the Q sometime after PH’s beatdown last Tuesday.  I’ve been to this site enough times to remember where things are, where things aren’t, and where not to get injured.  Or so I thought.  A wise man would’ve done some recon prior to, but I’ve never claimed to be wise, and am one of the world’s worst procrastinators.  Besides, that’s what can make a workout so provocative and intense, is to truly have no idea where you’re going.

Had planned to do some 7’s on the hill right beside the main parking lot, that was quickly scrapped due to construction.  Mid-workout, going around Lake Latin, Chelms thought I ripped off the weinke from PH last week.  Nah mate, we did cover a lot of the same ground, but I definitely did not have two black bags 0 sand being carried by the same four PAX, thank you very much.

Great to see a lot of the guys I normally don’t see during my weekly routines.  Dasher is fast, so is Dolly, which is nothing new.

Had a nice chat with McGee, as he was recounting his time at Camp Whippoorwill on this expansive campus.  Found out he is a fellow Mustang alum…class of ’04?  Also found out he has ups akin to Luke Kuechly.  Dude was doing jump ups on the actual table with ease.  #steeeerong

Heard from Lewinsky about yesterday’s DMZ beatdown; confirmed it with Mermaid who had half-Q with FW.  I am so glad that work calls me away from F3 on Monday mornings sometimes.

We were pulling back into launch, and Shoe informed me that we covered somewhere around 3.3 today.  See, you CAN get in pretty good distance if you’re lost.

Snowflake is steady as a rock, and so glad to see Utah back out amongst his F3 brothers.

Thanks to Hops and Doc for giving me the keys to the excavator and tower crane this morning.

Thanks to Shoe for a solid prayer this morning…continuing to pray for #AllinforJennings  and Utah’s family.

 

Announcements

Eh hem, please be advised that Hawks Nest will/should have a new meeting spot next week.  After you make the turn into Charlotte Latin main entrance, veer left into a very well-lit, paved lot.  Can’t miss it. #yeahright

Q school is somewhere and sometime this weekend.  Hops was clearly unclear, please ask him for more information of which he probably won’t have.

 

A Farewell to Arms

In the early summer of that year the deer were still hungry from a hard winter that offered too much cold and not enough food, and they were not timid but instead watched us plaintively as we passed in the near-moonless sky, or they darted in front of us without warning, on roads named Blue Ridge, or Old Bell or Mountainview.

We were a patched-together crew of Horsey veterans and first-timers, from the regions affectionately called Metro, South and beyond, with faces fresh for the challenge the course promised. We moseyed in together, ‘moseyed’ being a subjective term that for one man means a certain pace and for another man, something else altogether. But the leader waited for us all at the top of the hill they call Blue Ridge, and he gave his instructions, and all followed.

It was a simple plan, but the simplest and best plans often mask the amount of work that went into their creation. Down the dark descent of Mountainview, only to face quickly its steep and unforgiving grade before a hard right onto Old Bell, somehow, again. The incline up Old Bell looking no more threatening at its start than a white midsummer wisp of cloud, but delivering a punishment on the men’s legs like that of a tornado spun loose of its skyward roots.

To the end of Old Bell the men ran, then back out and right onto Wilby for more deer. Down again, up again, and to the corner at Mountainview, where the one they call Chester lives, or simply stands, or simply is. Down the northerly end of Mountainview and then up, up again, for in this country it seems the roads always move up, and the downs don’t quite make up for it, not quite. But they were men of honor and of valor, and they did not complain. Not one.

The leader waited on them all to finish this first pass, then asked for five hand-release burpees. This being somewhat counter to the normal approach for a summer Monday at the McHorseArse, the men could have complained. But they were men of dignity and strength, and they did their burpees, and they moved on.

Reverse course, on your own. 5 more burpees at the flag. Reverse again and do it all over. The same downs and ups, but there being the distinct feeling each time of more ups than downs. The leader among them struggled mightily to keep the one they call Lee (TM) in his sights, and almost resorted to walking toward the mythical Yucca at one point, but the voice in his head said no, no Lee is not walking, and the one they call Hollins is not walking and the one they call Horeshead is not walking (though maybe Horsehead was walking a little bit, but that is between him and his Maker, and is not for other men to know or judge, for Horsehead is a #HIM and this is his namesake), so the leader did not walk.

The one they call Hollins was running with his shirtless friend, the one they call Nabisco, whom some call Cowboy, but we do not, unless it is in jest. And toward the end, as we all were in our individual pain boxes of varying degrees, Hollins announced that he was suffering from some internal malady, a physical sign that all men have known in their gut and must address immediately, and alone. And so Hollins went away. But we knew he was a capable man and a man who knew where and how to remedy his situation, so we did not follow him.

With only minutes until the time to meet the rest of the crew, the leader approached the corner where so many before him have reported of mysterious sightings of the one they call Chester, and where he was certain he earlier saw Chester leaning against an idling pickup truck, but the truck was no longer there, so he assumed Chester had left. But now the leader saw the man again, standing alone without shirt, pants or socks, but with cigarette and bowl in hand. And the leader looked away, and tried mightily to focus on the road, and the pain and the sweat at the blinking light from the one they call Lee (TM) ahead of him. But he could not burn the image from his head, just as one cannot unsee the horrors of war when one has witnessed them first-hand.

The men, being men of their word, assembled at the neon flagpole at the allotted time, paid their respects, and proceeded back down the hill, to the flat section of Old Bell, and to the gravel lot still dusty for lack of rain. There they looked again for the one they call Hollins, but he was nowhere to be found, for his situation must have required indoor attention. They drank from weathered water bottles or plastic cups, and some dried off with frayed towels, but some did not. The one they call Grave Dancer provided a quality prayer, for it was honest, and brave, and true.

The Big House

6 men decided to shake off the weekend with a workout at the Big House.  As always, felt better when it was over!

The Thang: informal disclaimer and mosey down to the parking lot.

Warmup – 15 IW, 15 seal merkins, 15 squats, 15 aquamans, 15 MCs (all IC).

Mosey to the back of the AO and grab some mini-wall.  After each set, run ~50 yards and back.  Sets 1 & 2 = 5 burpee jump ups.  Set 3 = derkins.  Do sets of 10 with a ten count in between until time is called.  6-7 sets done.

Run halfway around the track and stop for a ladder set of seal merkins/aquamans: 10,9,8,7… 1.  Finish out the lap and stop at the picnic tables for split squats.  5 each leg, 5 count, repeat for ~4 minutes.

Grab a rock and line up.  Each exercise = 5, 10, 15, 20 with n increasingly longer sprint after each set.  Exercises were overhead presses, curls, and tricep extensions.  Mary in between each.  Finish out with lunges across the lot, break at each planter for Mary.

Mosey back to launch and do 20 merkins and hold six inches to close out.

Announcements: Journeyman.

Moleskin: Pretty straightforward workout to start the week.  Great group and I really enjoyed leading.  Thanks men.

Schools Out For The Summer

7 Pax posted at #Basecamp and started the summer vacation off on the right foot with DownPAINment and here’s how it went down.

COP

Mosey down to the track, take a lap then circle up on the football field for…Wait a minute, YHC notices a sign stating that the field is in the process of being seeded/fixed. Quick audible and we head toward to baseball fields and notice a sprinkler is running on one of them. We chose door #3 and settle in for COP.

  • SSH x 20
  • Merkins x 10
  • IW x 20
  • Low Slow Squats x 20
  • Windmills x 20

The Thang:

Moving over to home plate we engaged in an odd #Starfish due to the relocation from the football field, but the concept is still the same. Start at home plate with 5 merkins. Run to the LF 10 CCDs, return to home plate for 5 merkins. Run to the Left Center light pole, 10 4 count fluttter kicks, return to home plate for 5 merkins. Run to the Right Center light pole, 10 4 count mountain climbers, return to home plate for 5 merkins. Run to the RF foul pole , 10 LBCs. Repeat for 3 total rounds.

Mosey over to Semi Gloss’s office for the People’s Chair with 2 rounds of air presses x 50.

We then moved over to the little patch of grass/dirt by the school for the Abs version of our friend Jack Webb (Ab Webb). 1 Merkin, 4 Heels to Heaven up to 5.

Mary;

  • LBCs x 20
  • Dollys x 15
  • Rosalita x 10

Moleskin:

  • Great effort by the PAX today, looks like summer vacation is in full effect but 7 die hard posted this morning.
  • ABBA was out front all morning #LarryBird. Goonie suggested we put a weight vest or ruck on him to slow him down.
  • Good to seen Damn Gina again, heard he’s posting at Mountain Goat, Slim Fast will have him on a BRR team before long.
  • This morning’s audible to the football was eerily familiar to when YHC had the Death Valley Q only to find the track had been ripped up.
  • Goonie DM’d YHC last night asking if I was good to Q.  Glad he did as YHC had not looked at the schedule.
  • Marvel and Thumper seemed to be enjoying some quality 2nd F.
  • Jello seemed to enjoy the ab work this AM.
  • Goonie was only behind ABBA and got some extra credit with a pre-run as he works his way back from a knee injury.
  • Thanks to Jello for the take out, keep Utah and his family in your prayers.
  • Thanks to Goonie/Benny/Thunder for the opportunity to lead and please sound odd with any mumble chatter.

Announcements:

  • Firecracker 4 Miler July 4th, Speed For Need will be there, signup.
  • F3 Dads Saturday’s:   Area 51 Col Beatty Park 9:15 and SOB Brixham Tent 9:15.

 

 

Celebration of Life Convergence

It snowed last year too:
I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down
and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
-Dylan Thomas

If you have a brother, you know your relationship can be complex. We are family, friends and rivals – all in one! It’s a sacred relationship unlike any other. Two weeks ago, Joe Maxim’s (Dumpster Fire) brother Tom passed away. Grieving is difficult and we can’t “fix” this with a single workout, but I do know it’s hard to sweat and cry at the same time.

I invite you to join us at The Big House to celebrate Tom’s life and our F3 bond.

Monday, June 18
The Big House
427 Main St
Pineville, NC 28134
5:00 Pineville Pre-Run (fellowship pace)
5:30 Bootcamp
6:15 Ball of Man / Prayers

Please consider giving to the Memorial Fund.
https://gacfmi.org/donation-form/ (search for “Maxim, Tom Memorial Fund” in the list of options)

DMZ 5-Year Workout

Only a few in the parking lot upon arrival.  Aquafresh firmly planted the shovel flag.  Great to see Old Glory flying as all of our 37 made their way to the DMZ AO for a celebration of 5 years in operation.  YHC asked the M a month or so ago if it was OK to take her Monday and explained why the request was made.  She typically is great about relinquishing a FIA workout if YHC has to lead.  This one slipped her mind and negotiations ensued.  Wednesday was conceded.  Disclaimer was given, though most didn’t hear it due to significant chatter.  Off we go.

Thang

Mermaid Q

Mosey around Church at Charlotte building.  Circle up in lot adjacent to launch lot.

COP

SSH x 10 IC

Imperial Walker x 10 IC

Mountain Climber x 10 IC

Merkin x 10 IC

Peter Parker x 10 IC

Low Plank Jack x 10IC

Low Slow Squat x 10 IC

Very short mosey in the parking lot.  Launch point designated at the crate myrtle at the top of the lot near Carmel Road entrance.

Target point is the Exit sign at the bottom of the parking lot.

5 Pack

Run down parking lot.  Stop at 1st tree.  5 Hand-Release Burpees.  Run to Target.  15 Heels to Heaven.  Run back to 1st tree.  5 Hand-Release Burpees.  Run to Launch.  15 Merkin.  Repeato OYO x 4 for 5 total reps.  50 Hand-Release Burpees, 75 Merkins, 75 Heels to Heaven.

Mary to regroup.  Dredd led a few exercises then handed Q back to YHC.  Keep feet at 6 inches between exercises.  Flutter x 25 IC, LBC x 15 IC, Rosalita x 15 IC.  25 minutes in and time to hand over the Q.

Fishwrap Q

Mosey down the parking lot and over to Carmel Road Park football field.  Partner up.

AYG 100 yards.  Wheelbarrow back.  All the way back, if you can.  Most could not.

Swap

AYG 100 yards.  Bear Crawl back.  Q called exercise at his discretion during the Bear Crawl.

10 Squats

AYG 100 yards.

10 Squats

AYG 100 yards.

Merkin x 10 IC

AYG 100 yards

Continue through the park back to the launch lot.

COT

Moleskin

As noted up top, Mondays are reserved for the M’s FIA workout.  Hadn’t posted DMZ in a long time.  Appreciate the invite to co-Q this workout from Aquafresh current site-Q.  Glad to split with Fishwrap, former Metro Nantan.  Speaking of Fish, he asked me to take the backblast.  Probably  because DMZ is officially an A51 workout.  Gotta say, slightly disappointed I don’t get to read one of his masterpieces.

Bushwood was the lone pre-runner and a former site-Q at DMZ.  Ducked into his house at about 4.5 for hot minute.  Convenient to have that option.

Skywalker, another former site Q, posted.  Always good to see him out with the PAX.

Hops, yet another former site Q, took us out in prayer.  T-claps Hops.  We keep praying for Bout Time’s son, Jennings, in his battle with cancer, and for Utah’s family, in the wake of his father’s passing last week.

One Eye, current DMZ site Q, posted and put in the work, same as usual.

Appreciate the leadership of the aforementioned at DMZ over 5 years, and Fishwrap, site FNG at DMZ, for his leadership today.  It takes some work to keep a site strong for 5 years.  That work does not go unnoticed.  T-claps men.

Some famous F3 PAX with the group today.  Crotch Rocket is blowing up the Nation, planting cities.  He rattled off several in announcements.  The man is working hard to give this away.  There are opportunities to help.  Hit him up.

Checkpoint crushed the workout.  That’s what he does.  There were several others in the lead group.  With that many PAX it was hard to take notes.

One of the front-runners was Dredd.  He pushes hard, at everything.  Glad to see him today.  YHC will share a little of our post-workout conversation.

Somehow, we got to talking about bees.  A few years back, YHC had a honeybee infestation at the casa.  Estimates had 10,000 bees living in my soffit at the apex of my roof, AKA, the highest point.  The bees “bearded” in the late afternoon.  What’s bearding some may ask?  Bees are remarkable insects.  They must keep the place they live in a certain temperature range.  To do that, a large contingent would spill out of the soffit and just hang there, allowing viewers a peak at a massive ball of bees.  YHC called three different exterminators.  Two wouldn’t touch it.  At that time, honeybees were protected.  One merry group of 3 exterminators showed up and took a vacuum and sucked out several hundred.  The ringleader was certain he got the queen, which was necessary for the rest to leave.  Alas, he did not, and did not answer subsequent phone calls.  Through the Twitter machine, YHC got connected with Strummer and Mighty Wind, both of whom showed up to investigate.  Mighty Wind said he could get scaffolding and the two were willing to “help” YHC with removal.  Slaughter kindly donated the use of enough scaffolding to get to the apex of the roof.  I had never met any of these men.  Mighty Wind recruited a non-F3 novice beekeeper friend and the two of them showed up on a Sunday to get to work.  Strummer was busy that day.  They worked for several hours to take apart the soffit and remove the vast majority of the bees.  They got the queen and Mightly Wind tried to recolonize the bees.  They did not make it.  My connection to F3 allowed all of this to happen and got me out of a serious bind.  Just an example of the men we run alongside each morning and what they do for others.

Thankful for F3 and all the men working hard to sustain it and grow it.

Dredd also told YHC that honeybees are not protected any longer as the numbers are back up.  Also, roughly 70% of our food requires pollination on some level.  FYI.

Back to it.  Enjoyed this morning and this group.  Well done men.

Announcements 

 

Hit up Crotch Rocket if you are interested in helping with the massive LEAP efforts underway right now.

 

 

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