Tag: NoToll

An SOJ Pax of 9 braved black ice and arrived for a NoToll beat down that went something like this:

THANG

Mosey off of blacktop ASAP

COP on bball court: SSHs, DQs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, 3 Arm Circles

Mosey down side path, gingerly cross parking lot to soccer field

Partner up for Love Loops: just like Love Hill, partner 1 runs in one direction around perimeter of soccer field, partner 2 performs slow moving exercise(s) until caught; swap, partner 2 runs in same direction as partner 1 until slow moving exercise completes a lap

Loop 1 – Bear Crawl + Forward Lunge

Loop 2 – Imperial Squat Walkers

Circle up for some quick Mary: Hello Dollies, Dead Cock Roaches, LBCs

Loop 3 – Crab Walk or Backwards Lunge + Bob & Weave

Mosey back to bball court for final COP: 10 Burpees OYO, American Hammers

COT – Gumbo took us out

Naked Moleskin

Awesome winter morning to be out and at ’em, gentlemen. Thanks for showing up.

YHC planned to introduce Love Loops on NoToll’s parking lot circuit, but Mother Nature had other plans. No bother, use a bigger loop on the soccer field instead.

Partners didn’t really work out for the Love Loops, it was more like 2 teams…which worked out better really.

The Imperial Squat Walkers took ages…it felt like the Golden Horseshoe all over again.

Shakedown seemed shocked to be this morning’s War Daddy…you played the roll well, brother.

More DK Q fun at SOT tomorrow and 45MOMM on Thursday.

YHC expects to see Honeymoon, Marmaduke and Wilson to show up for SOT tomorrow after traveling home late from Cville to watch another glorious UVA bball victory tonight.

Announcements:
F3 RVA CSAUP overnight April 13-14 (FYI, conflicts with the Y Princess Spring Campout for the Chickahominy Nation)

Five of F3RVA’s armchair quarterbacks plus 5 more paid penance to the Fantasy Gods in remembrance of F3RVA’s inaugural season.

THANG

COP (In honor of the Playoff Teams)

• Spit – Slaughter Starter – Burpees x 14 wins in route to championship
• Goose – Flutter Kicks x 12
• BT – Copperhead Squats x 11
• Vedder – Helicopters x 6
• Viral – Merkins x 8
• EFH – Crabcakes x 8
• Flatline – Nevermind

Beatdown of the Year: DK by 79 week 1 over Honeymoon – 79 LBCs OYO

The Good:  Spit, Goose, and BT won 11 or more games

• 11s – Donkey Kicks & WWI Situps

The Bad: Southern Gentlemen (Wilson, Marmaduke, Vedder, Ocho, Sparky, Honeymoon, DK) 30-61 combined record

• Modified Lindsay – 30/60 Merkins & Monkey Humpers (30/60, 40/50, 50/40, 60/30)

The Ugly: Marmaduke’s 1-12 record

• Beast – Boxcutters, Burpees, Merkins – end after 3 rounds like Marmaduke’s season after week 3

Mary

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

The PAX felt no pain as the temps dipped slightly below 70, but the SOJ guys faces were plenty red as YHC regaled tales of the first season of F3RVA Fantasy Football and dished out the appropriate punishments.  At the draft, the New Market crew enjoyed samplings of Marmaduke’s fruity pebble moonshine while the Yankee Aggressors from NOJ focused on the task at hand.  As the season played out it was apparent that the Southern Gentleman had basically fartsacked on the season.  Only Vedder could manage enough wins to secure a playoff spot, one that Flatline would argue was his.  In the end, two teams stood above the rest with Goose kicking and scratching and turning over his entire roster 3 and a half times, taking on Spit who was the favorite from day one.  Spit rode his studs LeVeon and DeAndre to a Monday night comeback while breaking Goose’s heart in the 5^th closest game of the entire season, 86.04-85.30.  Congrats Spit, a champion among champions.  The Fantasy Gods will remember those who paid the price this AM and those who fartsacked come next August, ahem Wilson.  Thanks to all who took part, looking forward to next year.  Apologies to the innocent bystanders caught up in today’s Q.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CSAUP – coming soon

YHC arrived, slightly early, to prepare with a vehicle already there, lights on, license plates from NC-sketchy late night visitor or PAX members from out of town. The later is correct. Crabbie Englishman and Xbox arrived to No Toll after resting at the Jefferson overnight with family-annual rest stop during Christmas. Jenny Craig came in hot and off we went..

COP-Don Quixote, Russian Soldier, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squat, LBC’s, Merkins, and finally, Helicopter’s-all 15 reps. Mumble chatter was minimal at this point! Mosey to first soccer field and Da Thang:

Del Brown= 25 yd crab walk and 10 Merkins, 25 yd crab walk and 10 Merkins, repeat to end of the soccer.  Partner up for wheelbarrows back across soccer field, AMRAP. PAX way to move!! My arms were smoked by the end!! Mosey over to field in front of the bleachers.

Next. Super 21= 1 pushup, 1 situp; 2 pushups, 2 situps, and accordion up to 21. By 4th rep, mumble chatter was still minimal so YHC asked Xbox about Star Wars Battlefront (video game) to start conversation. Conversation lead to Battlefront 2 and having to purchase guns, etc on the game. Gamers pissed off at Battlefront 2, evidently. Mr. Roper thought were talking about real guns and accessories. YHC told him, no, that involves Comic Con in San Deigo. Shakedown told us that is where he began to follow The Grateful Dead and hanging out with naked hippie chicks. Soon, PAX members from RVA were apologizing to Xbox and Crabbie Englishman because it appeared we liked video games, Grateful Dead, and naked chicks. Wait…..we may like these………At this point, PAX and YHC had lost count of Super 21 so audible called for PAX to be at 17. YHC always calls an audible on Super 21. Hard to get this exercise finished! Time to mosey to corner soccer field–fence poles for yard markers.

Charles Bronson= 50 SSH, than sprint 50 yds and low crawl last 25 yds to edge of soccer field, sprint back to start line; 50 LBC’s, sprint 50 yds, low crawl 25 yds and sprint back to start; 50 Jump Squats, sprint 50 yds, low crawl 25 yds, sprint back to start; 50 Mountain Climbers, sprint 50 yds, low crawl 25 yds and sprint back to start.

Mosey back to basketball courts with 5 mins left- YHC set up two soccer goals at free throw lines. Yes, soccer  F3 style=Mr. Roper, YHC, Crabbie Englishman  crab crawl and Xbox, Jenny Craig, Shakedown bear crawl. Soccer with a twist. Score, 0 to 0.

Mosey back to parking lot. Number-a-ma, Name-r-ama.

Announcements-Shakedown virgin Q on Thursday at 45MOM. Morehead City is blessed to have summer workouts on the beach and Mary in the water! Can I say ROAD TRIP!!!  YHC took us out!

NMS-light mumble chatter except for Super 21. Here is the recap…Xbox and Star Wars Battlefront->Real Guns and Star Wars acces.-> Comic Con->Grateful Dead->Naked Hippie Chicks…..sweet!

It was a pleasure this morning to lead you gents! I thought, either a lot of PAX members, or sparce showing. No worries. Perfect way to start the day and crush a work out!! Thank you for the privilege to lead! Crabbie Englishman and Xbox, safe travels and hope to see you again!

Loud and Proud,

Flatline

On a cool and crisp morning, 19 fine gentlemen arose from the Fartsack to attack the day and better themselves.

COP-

SSH x 20

DQ x 15

Copperhead Squats x 15

Helicopters x 10

LBC x 10

Merkins x 10

5 Burpees OYO

Mosey to field

The Beast:

Round 1 – Burpees

Round 2 – Merkins

Round 3 – WWII

Round 4 – Jump Squats

Round 5 – 2 Count Freddy Mercury

Round 6 – Monkey Humpers

Mosey to Parking Lot

Triple Check-

Run – Curb Crawl Carousel, Pole Smokers 6 Inches

Mosey to Basketball Court

Suicides-

Round 1 – Regular Suicide

Round 2 – Suicide Merkin Ladder – Each Stop increase merkins by 2

Round 3 – Reverso Round 2

Round 4 – Regular Suicide

Circle Up-

Merkin Ring of Fire – Extra credit for Flare

30 secs of SSH to finish.

COP- Numberama, Namearama, Thanks to Flatline for taking us out!

Announcements – 2018 Q sheet is up, as well as Breaking Bread Q sheet

HDHH tomorrow @ the Answer Brewpub

NMS-

It was a great morning at No Toll with awesome number of PAX showing up.  Great to see  Big Blue  as we rolled in this morning, as Swirly made the trek down.  Lots of mumblechatter, many of which I probably missed so feel free to add.  Appreciate the ribbing from DK on the Panthers, yes Carolina is a hot mess right now, but we are one win away from the playoffs, so ill take it! It was a bit slippery on the field but everyone battled through.  We also learned Gumbo cant stop at 6 Monkey Humpers…we will leave that one alone.   Great to have Cheetah out this morning (Johnsonville 2.0)  he crushed it!  YHC was honored to lead this group of men today!  Have a great day boys and enjoy the rest of the Holiday season.

Marmaduke

14 Christmas revelers posted at NoToll for what has now become a tradition at NoToll, the annual Rosie led 12 days of Christmas.  What better day than 12/12 to go through the routine, not only at NoToll but across RVA.

THANG

Warmup with 12 SSH, 12 IW, 12 DQ

Mosey to the Pavilion for the 12 days – you know how it goes

• 1 Dozen LBCs
• 2 Sprints across the field (go the left field to avoid the snow)
• 3 Diamond Merkins
• 4 Imperial Squat Walkers
• 5 “Golden” Burpees
• 6 Dips
• 7 Lunges (each leg)
• 8 Decline Merkins
• 9 American Hammers IC
• 10 Flutter Kicks IC
• 11 Reverse Crunches IC – Audible to new YHC fave Crunchy Frogs
• 12 Broad Jump Burpees

Mosey to the flag for a 10 merkin ring of fire (plenty of flair), Superman,  37 Freddie Mercuries varied speed

NMM

Little did the PAX know that Honeydo had the idea to coordinate with YHC to organize a RVA region-wide 12 days of Christmas with Honeydo, Lab Rat and Splinter all helping at the various Tuesday AOs.  Thanks for pushing the Christmas agenda fellas.  A  Tuckahoe Takeover twitter blast alerted a few of the PAX that were familiar with this workout that something was afoot.  Shakedown arrived in full Tacky/Zombie Christmas gear ready to take on the morning.  Posh was sporting the Christmas t-shirt too.  The PAX crushed it today and left us with a little more time than the last 2 years.  YHC decided to keep the PAX dry and use the Pavilion for the base camp and the fields soak up the water fairly well.  No special meaning to the 37 Freddie Mercuries despite the PAX trying to discern meaning, only going until time is up.

Thanks to the PAX for providing the vocals along the way with Flatline and Hardywood leading the way.  EF Hutton was back on the southside to participate.  Along with DK, they are the only 2 that have received all 3 years of 12 days beatdowns at NoToll.  Extra credit goes to Honeydo for Qing this year and Wedding Singer for posting the first 2 years and enduring Splinter’s Interval Spider Run version.

• Viral hosting a tour of the Tool Bank Thursday at 0830.  See him for details.  EF Hutton is a HC so go if you want to check out the tool bank or see EF without a do-rag.
• Shakedown VQ 12/28 at 45MOM – others looking to VQ? the signups for 2018 is up if you scroll down on the Q sheet

YHC had a great time this morning and aside from all the fun got a great workout in.  I appreciate the opportunity to lead.

16 strong Pax emerged from the fart sack for a mild Decemeber morning beatdown that went something like this:

THANG

Slaughter Start – 10 burpees OYO

COP – SSH, DQs, Arm Circles (Flashdance on Q), Merkins, Bob & Weave

Mosey to Soccer fields

Roxanne (run in place, burpee @ Roxanne)

Run a lap as a group

Find a partner for Proper Dora – 100 x 1 merkin, 2 WWII, 3 Squats

Circle up for Taking & Thinking – Ride by twentyonepilots (lunge in place, squat jump @ Taking or Thinking)

Mosey to Basketball courts

Line up on baseline for Bearimeter – Bear crawl entire perimeter, halt halfway for 20 SSH OYO + 20 LBCs IC

Circle up for Mary: Hello Dollies, Capital Letters, Freddy Mercuries

10 Burpees OYO

COT – Wilson took us out

Naked Moleskin:

So much mumblechatter today…but YHC wouldn’t have it any other way.

Good to see Honeymoon make room for F3 in his busy BrokeBack schedule of weight lifting at the gym with Sparky. Why don’t you two go to the gym and pump each other?

Sorry for leaving Marmaduke still doing the Proper Dora while YHC organized the next exercise.

Jenny Craig is a bear crawl machine and passed the majority of the Pax during the Bearimeter.

Announcements:

Qs needed on the Q sheet. Might be time for another VQ week!

17 grizzled vets (some more manly (or insane) than others) posted at NoToll for a mostly you vs you workout with a little us vs them thrown in also.  It went like this:

VERY short mosey to the first light pole for COP, all IC, including:

• SSHs x20 (during which YHC noticed the nearly even split between Shorts Only Posters and those in tights or other varieties of unnecessary clothing covering their legs – and an audible was called silently in YHC’s mind)
• DQs x10
• Helicopters x15
• Imperial Walkers x15
• Merkins x10
• LBCs x25 (missed my exit ramp and had to go around the block)

Manly Men vs. Others Team Relays — Another short Mosey to the basketball courts and break into two teams – SOPers and Others and form up on the end line for team relays:

• Round 1 – Suicide relay; rest of team perform 4x4s (look ’em up and add them to your repertoire – they kind of suck especially in long durations).  Team plank when all members have completed a suicide.
• Round 2 – Suicide relay; rest of team Hello Dolly (audible half-way through to LBCs) – Al Gore as a team when finished.
• Close races but I think the SOPers went 2-0 — the “Others” can correct me in comments if necessary.

Teams were actually even number of runners, since Swiper is still recovering (great to have him out today to partake in the ground and pound sections that he could!)

Chicken Peckers Round 1 – Line up along the fence line for Chicken Peckers (a new RVA favorite) x15 IC

Large ROF Rosie Style – Circle-up on the court for a large mid-beatdown ROF — staring in Al Gore go around the circle dropping for 10 merkins and holding plank, then when it comes back around do 10 more merkins and Al Gore for the rest of the PAX.

Lazy Triple Check – short mosey to the bathroom area for a triple-check including People’s Chair on the wall, dips on the bench (or squats if you lost out on musical chairs) and the timer was doing 25 Werkins.  3 rounds…of course.

Chicken Peckers Round 2 – 10 IC this time

PLTs – partner up and perform 3 rounds of 20 PLTs each

ROF – SOPers vs. Others – form two smaller circles and perform the traditional ROF – starting in plank and performing 10 merkins when it comes to your turn (YHC did 20 to account for the SOPers having 1 less member).  Team Al Gore when finished.  I am pretty sure this was a dead heat.

5 MOM, including:

• APDs x20
• Freddie Mercuries x20
• Flutter Kicks x20
• Hello Dolly x20
• American Hammers x10

Stumble back to the flag for COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out, including two prayer requests:

• For a St. Michael’s family whose 3rd grade son lost his battle with leukemia just the other day.  Heartbreaking – another reason to get home, hug your wife and kids and be thankful for every day and every blessing we have.
• For my friend’s family – his father (88) is having emergency open heart surgery today as a last resort.
• Send them all up to the SKY Q men – they all help…

Announcements:

• HDHH tomorrow at Almost Marv’s House courtesy of Lally Construction.  Ms and 2.0s welcome — see TYA’s pre-blast for details:  https://backblasts.f3rva.org/2017/11/20/hdhh-weds-after-tgiving/

NMS –

YHC had a different plan for today, including more running and rounds of 4-corners, but seeing Swiper and noticing the near-even split is SOPers vs. Others – a necessary audible was called and YHC flew a little by the seat of pants…err shorts after that.  Nonetheless, I hope the PAX got their money’s worth out of the semi-ground & pound.  You should have gotten around 200 merkins depending on how many 4x4s you did during the first suicide relay — individual counts will vary!  Finish the challenge strong – 2 days left.

Lots of good mumblechatter today and some especially terrible counting by the PAX…I won’t name any names…Mr. Red Shorts!  All good though and a pleasure to lead, as always.

NoToll is officially relinquished from YHC’s control – something other than Gumbo will be on the menu next week.  You’re welcome!

No more Gumbo for you…until tomorrow!

And this stuff was ripe.  Or was that Wilson? In any event, 11 SOJers were subjected to another serving of Gumbo at NoToll for the 3rd straight week (one more to go next week – with turkey leftovers…) and this is how it went (after Rosie awoke Gumbo from his pre-mosey stupor and last few minutes of warmth in the vehicle):

Mosey to the back parking lot, leaving Mr. Roper to lace up the kicks and catch up, for COP, all IC including:

• SSHs x20
• Merkins x10
• DQs x10
• Imperial Walkers x15
• Copperhead Squats x10
• LBCs x20
• Flutter Kicks x20

THE THANG:

Four Corners – Australian Style for Malcolm Young…Backwards and with repeats:

Round 1 –

• Corner 4 – 40 SSHs, run to Corner 3
• Corner 3 – 40 SSHs and 30 merkins, run to Corner 2
• Corner 2 – 40 SSHs, 30 merkins and 20 jump squats, run to corner 1
• Corner 1 – 40 SSHs, 30 merkins, 20 jump squats and 10 two-count mountain climbers, run to corner 4 and plank for the six

Round 2 – same as Round 1, except exercises were 40 LBCs, 30 jump squats, 20 merkins and 10 two-count crab cakes

The Beast – mosey over to field 1 and line up for the Beast, including:

• Merkins
• WWII
• Jump Squats
• Werkins
• 2-count American Hammers
• Burpees

Sprint Back to the Flag for COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• 60 MOM for Thanksgiving at Mary Munford – starts at 0600 and coffeeteria in the parking lot at 0700.  Come start your turkey day correctly.  TYA promises all historical references will be substantiated and accurate.
• For those late risers on Turkey Day (or those double-dippers who aren’t heading from 60MOM to a waddle or trot of some sort) – Circus Maximus will start at 0700.
• Breaking Bread is this Sunday, 11/26.  Hardywood has the Q and I believe Fudd has signed on as well.  If anyone else can help out, contact Hardywood.

NMS:

The month of Gumbo taking over NoToll and SOT is rolling into its fourth week and I think the Natives may be restless.  Nonetheless, they followed Gumbo’s aimless lead this morning and for that YHC is grateful.  As YHC confessed to Rosie, Gumbo had no real plan for this morning – other than the reverse 4 Corners for AC/DC tribute, but when is the Beast not a great idea to close the last 18 minutes of the beatdown?  Also, we managed to disguise 222 merkins in our workout today for those of you keeping count at home for the monthly challenge.  Stick with it – 9 days to go.

YHC thanks Malcolm Young and the rest of AC/DC for The Razor’s Edge album.  A CLASSIC! and especially for Thunderstruck and Back in Black – that were on YHC’s football and baseball pre-game playlists all through high school and VMI.  Never failed to raise the hairs on my neck and get the juices flowing.

Mublechatter was strong today and the PAX almost hid from Flashdance’s LIFO appearance successfully in the darkest corner of the field, but some grunting and heavy breathing clued him in to our location.  Better late than never, brother – way to jump in and get right to work.

Rosie and Hardywood lead the way as usual today, but I saw some strong efforts out there by all – especially Ollivander kicking into high gear on the Burpee leg of the Beast.  Great also to have Posh back out.

Hope to see many of you at SOT tomorrow or 60MOM on Thursday, but for those I don’t see – have a Happy Thanksgiving.  Lots to be thankful for in this group!

No more Gumbo for you…until tomorrow!

9 brave souls broke the hold and posted at NoToll for another Gumbo Q – 2 more then another can reign over NoToll…this morning YHC wanted to check in on the STACHE – week 3 and make headway on the merkin challenge.  It went like this:

Mosey toward the entrance to the park and Robious Road (almost thought the PAX wasn’t going to follow the different direction) – pick-up and escort McRib into the parking lot and circle up for COP, including the following all IC:

• Merkins x10
• SSHs x25
• Merkins x9 (Mr. Roper caught on to the idea quickly)
• Imperial Walkers x15
• Merkins x8 (others caught on)
• Arm Circles X10 forward and backward
• Merkins x7 (Hardywood joined the knowledge party on the pattern)
• DQs x10
• Merkins x6
• Helicopters x10
• Merkins x5
• LBCx x24 (YHC has a counting snafu — otherwise known as a shout out to Flatline)
• Merkins x 4
• Flutter kicks x15
• Merkins x 3
• Freddy Mercuries x15
• Merkins x2
• SOMETHING??
• Merkins x1

Short mosey to the basketball court for the STACHE:

Suicides

• Regular
• Backward
• Side Shuffle

Tammy Wynette (Half Now; Half Later)

Partner up and complete 5 rounds of 10 Merkins and 10 squats each

APDs x 25 IC

Captain Therkins

Basically Captain Thors — combinations of WWIIs and American Hammers keeping a 1:4 ratio but with a set of 5 merkins in between each set, as follows:

• 1 WWII, 4 American Hammers
• 5 Merkins
• 2 WWII, 8 AHs
• 5 Merkins
• 3 WWII, 12 AHs
• 5 Merkins
• AND SO ON…. Minds were blown on the math here – Shocker!

PAX completed as many rounds as they could in 5 minutes.  I got to 7:28 and it hurt, I imagine 10:40 really really sucks…might have to test that theory soon?

Howling Monkeys – 2 rounds of ring of fire style passing around 10 monkey humpers and holding the position while the other PAX members do it.

Elevens – Merkins and Boxcutters 1 and 10 then run the length of the court and do 2 and 9…you know the rest

2nd half of the Tammy Wynettes

Mary – Hello Dollies, Rosalitas and Superman

Back to the flag for COT, number-rama, name-a-rama and McRib took us out!

NMS:

The mumblechatter was wild this morning.  Hardywood was in short sleeves and shorts and Tobit was in short sleeves and long pants — a different take on SOP but we will see if HoneyDo approves if the elbows are showing but not the knees…

A rowdy bunch and the howling got out of control, but work was put in for sure.  Good job this morning fellas.  I put the merkins somewhere between 280 and 310 depending on how many rounds of Captain Therkins you did.

See you at SOT!

No more Gumbo for you!

15 strong posted in the refreshingly brisk morning at NoToll only to find out that Gumbo had a last-minute write-in candidate to add to the ballot and her name is Nicole, and this Nicole was all about some Merkins, so let’s get down to business… Mosey to the back lot for COP, including:

• SSHs x20 IC
• Merkins x10 IC
• Helicopters x15 IC
• Hand-release Merkins x10 OYO
• Arm Circles 15 forward (10 small, 5 big) and 15 backward (10 small, 5 big)
• Werkins x10 IC
• LBCx x25

Mosey to the pavilion and upon cries for no box-jumps YHC called out a modified, ALL-MERKIN Nicole.  The timer was set for 20 minutes and it went like this.  Begin at pavilion with 25 regular merkins, run a lap around the field, then perform 25 Derkins on the benches, run a lap, then 25 incline merkins, run a lap.  Continue in that sequence for 20 minutes and complete as many laps as possible.

Plank-o-rama for the six and to catch a breather

Mosey back past the flag to the bathrooms for a classic triple check, including BTTW (Goodbye Dollies optional), Squats and a sprint to touch the entrance of the park and back — and sprint Oyster did…

Mosey to the basketball courts for a Merkin ROF and 10 Merkins IC all together to top it off.

COT, number-rama and name-a-rama, then YHC took us out with a quick prayer and off many of us went to stink up your local polling station.

Same announcements – HR 1-year convergence on Saturday – is anyone going to get the Ghost Flag?  C-ville 4-miler on Sunday.  Good luck to all F3RVAers who are running the Richmond Marathon or Half-Marathon this weekend.  Crush it men!

NMS:

YHC has been wanting to bring Nicole back into the fold for a while and an ALL MERKIN Nicole seemed like a great way to make some headway on the monthly challenge.  It was.  YHC completed 9 laps and 10 rounds of merkins for 330 total on the day. I believe Rosie, Hardywood and Honeymoon completed 10 and 11, respectively for 355 on the day.  Way to push the lead men!  Everyone I think completed at least 8 rounds of merkins, which would have been 200 merkins during Nicole + 50 in COP + 30 in ROF for a total of 280 for the day.  Not too shabby.  Regardless, good progress was made and we covered nearly 3 miles running in total today.  Strong work men!

More Gumbo is on the menu at SOT tomorrow, but until then, No More Gumbo For YOU!