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Costumes are allowed i.e. sailor hat, I for one will go western but would wear a top hat at the drop of a hat, pardon my pun. lol I know many that just look plain silly in a cowboy hat TC Shelton wearing a cowboy hat still makes me giggle.

Fort Worth 148's membership at its peak topped 2000 and we are down to about 200+ almost half do not pay dues for one reason or another we hiked dues and are now about to lose 60 more. I think our decline in numbers is unfortunate but I also believe everything happens for a reason. Is it not a...

Not sure if this was posted but it is in the code book I have under "test oath" on pg 207 right after the trial lecture of a MM. It is simple as a pimple one corection from the book though, it is "nor" not "or", suspended nor explelled

I watch b/c I know what I think and want to know what you think, just in case I need to change my point of view.

I have been apart of a few degrees of Brothers under 21 some 18 and they seemed more stoked than most others I have been to.

I heard a report from an officer in the Shrine and the hospital endowment fund has taken a massive hit from the declining market combined with the insurance not covering all the improvments from hurricane Ike they where forced to close. They are not sure if more will follow. The Brother said the...

Lokks like a massive house cleaning is going on, like someone pressed the reset button and we will be starting from almost scratch. Sounds like fun to me. lol Brother TexMass is a member in MA and has lots of wonderful input on there doings. I still cannot get over the fact they wear jewels...

Brother Stew, with all do respect the trick is find something you love and pass that love to your Brothers, teach them to open their minds. Teachem' sumtem' new! I promise you do get a few squirms but I think that is more their hemoriods (LOL) than their disintrest. I think we all forget when...

Perfect layout for 2 pager, you can save cost by going black and white print on a little better paper. Also do not think it has to be monthly right off the bat start quaterly or bi-monthly and see what the Brehtren think if it was like my lodge the sky was the limit for our newsletter, the...

I had to go watch the longer version on youtube, I about fell out of my chair when Paul had his maniacal laugh. That was Dave at his best, I was thourly entertained.

In 1717 while founding the Premier Grand Lodge there where meeting held at the Apple Tree Tavern. I think Brother Benjamin Franklin Said it best: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Brother Ben's wild sucsess and unconventional wisdom may have never blessed this...

You never know it might work, I for one will defintley say a prayer or 2 for them. When his kid is 18 he will 31 that will give them tons of time together!lol

I lodge in the Fort Worth Temple and on many ocasions I have seen Masons having parties down stairs in the ballroom with boos. I think that if a Mason cannot use temperance and prudence when consuming alcohol he needs to leave it alone on his own personal accord. I am always weary of laws that...

The Vegas trip for Wells Fargo is not a reward for the executives it is a reward the lower income employees earn throughout the year and it is no easy task as I worked for Wells Fargo for years and no one would be more glad not to go to Vegas that the exec of Wells Fargo b/c they work the whole...

Well the law reads The WM has to be certified to be installed so either the law would have to be bent or that Lodge would demise. From the conversation I have had with DIs though they have never ever had a problem with certifing the WM when they had to in the past. I was told that someone would...

YEs they have there own version of those also.

148 has opened in EA seeminlg since the law passed. I have been told by EAs they enjoy sitting in the meetings and get alot out of them. We always have a education paper at stated meeting that would be ashame for EAs to miss. I think this was one of the best boldest move for the Craft going back...

We assign mentors even if they cannot teach the work, but they are responsible to stay in constant contact and just be there friend and keep them coming up to Lodge. We recently intiated 4 EAs and after this new program we still have 4 active EAs. So a mentor does not have to teach the work and...

You invite your DI over and get him to teach what needs to be learned it is a very small portion of the memory work and could be done in a few hours of work.

The machine of Masonry has many facets to making it work properly and getting the words right is just a portion of our duties as Mason along with charity and others. The duty of a speculative Mason is laid out in the FC lecture (the long version anyway) and the only thing we perfom externally is...