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Its a degree team from Scottish Rite but its regular old blue lodge work done in an 1836 style.

I don't know if it meets your criteria, but Districts 35A&B do an outdoor degree each year, Lem Maddox, held sometime in May I believe. The Scottish Rite Republic of Texas degree team puts on a pretty memorable degree as it would have been done in 1836.

Oy. We've apparently been running into this one. "Uncle Jimmy who is a member of some other lodge but lived the past few years in this area would have wanted your lodge to have X, Y & Z". So we had a stash of ton of Uncle Jimmys' X, Y & Z that we had to find some way to respectfully dispose of...

I agree. If you have to be a Master Mason in good standing to join an appendant body, you have to continue to be a Master Mason in good standing to stay a member. No longer good standing, no longer member of appendant body. Seems reasonable to me.

And one day, I'm going to wear a sombrero!

You probably don't have enough to mail out to make bulk mail work. http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/getstarted/bulkmail.htm

At this point, I've decided to do neither. I'm just too busy as Senior Steward in my blue lodge, plus my scouting hobbies, that I just don't have the time to invest in anything else. Take this week for example. Tuesday we had Golden Trowel and we served a dinner with that, Wednesday practice for...

FWIW, I went with a light blueish plaid fedora. I'm looking into a outback style light tan for spring/summer.

So, working as the Master in my first EA degree this week. I need a hat recommendation (and where to find it!) I don't do cowboy hats, they just look off on my head. I've seen bowlers and fedoras used. I was thinking about maybe a Panama?

We're here every Tuesday, come sit, drink some coffee and tell us about you. We've gotten much better in our lodge about that. We'll readily hand out a petition, but we want to know about you, why you're there and make sure you're going to make some effort to come visit before we sign. We...

Heh, yeah. You won't get my autograph unless I've seen you a few times and talked to you for a bit.

I have a friend in Austin and he said their lodge I think has a permanent junior steward. Its an older, retired guy that just likes to cook. I think the SS is in their line and that's where new guys go, but the JS is always this guy helping you out.

I know our previous stewards, one of which is a PM, the other is now SD, had some issues with getting money out of brothers to pay for the food. But when you are served a pimento cheese or olive loaf sandwhich, it kind of takes away from the wanting to give, no matter how bad that looks. I've...

I thought to myself, and probably to my wife, when I started as Junior Steward "self, you could do this for a number of years if need be". Now that I'm Senior Steward, I'm pretty sure this will be the last year my wife will allow me to be a steward and I'm pretty sure its the last year I'll let...

Very cool. I like the history that you got on both. The ring I wear belonged to my wife's grandmother's. Its not near as old as yours, we believe it to be somewhere around 80 years old. Some day I'll get off my arse and see about getting some dates for him. (My wife's family is masonic, I...

I think finances/lodge condition with a lot of the smaller lodges are going to force this issue.

Its a "retirement center" and not a "nursing home". Hermann Sons does the same thing with their retirement home in Comfort "be in good health in the professional opinion of the Grand Physician" I think with the cancer and tuberculosis, the stats of the people coming to them with cancer... the...

You aren't kidding. In our lodge, we seem to have about a 50% EA dropout rate. About half of them, they'll do the degree and then you never again see hide nor hair of them. Its not like they don't know where we are, they've been coming and having coffee and meals with us for a few months to get...

I'm not done with it yet, but a number of us are reading The Hiram Key. The reading gets a bit slow at times, much faster at others. The authors bring up several interesting theories concerning the history of Freemasonry.

Re: Georgia Black Mainstream Mason Is Black Balled Again For The Second Time In His M Sad. Very Sad. Really Georgia?