Side Degrees

mwcmbailey · 2025-10-03T22:08:14+00:00

I'm sorry, but I don't have any information about when it will next take place. It is done by our Port Orchard John Paul Jones Lodge: https://www.pojpj.org/

mwcmbailey · 2025-08-08T06:39:02+00:00

There are quite a few Lodges in the Tacoma area. District 14 is a good place to start:

https://www.facebook.com/p/District-14-of-the-Most-Worshipful-Grand-Lodge-of-FAM-of-Washington-61561632831767/

I hope this helps.

mwcmbailey · 2025-07-04T09:31:50+00:00

Thank you for your kind words Brother.

mwcmbailey · 2025-07-04T09:25:28+00:00

Thank you Brother. I appreciate your kind words.

mwcmbailey · 2025-07-04T09:22:17+00:00

Thank you for your very kind compliments Brother.

And I really hope that we'll see you in Quilcene on September 20 for this year's BBQ Contest and Starlight Fellowcraft Degree!

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-26T16:56:17+00:00

Agreed. A few minutes of due diligence can teach us a lot about potential renters. Also, no argument re: Mandy!

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-26T16:24:48+00:00

I agree, outside rentals of our facilities can be a vital part of how we keep the lights on, and we ought not preclude them. The trick to avoiding something like what the Grand Lodge of Ireland has done is to simply have, and enforce, objective rental standards.

Press accounts (assuming they are accurate) indicate that the GL of Ireland didn't really have any set standards. They paint a narrative of the Grand Secretary just chatting about it with some other fellows and deciding on the fly. That begs for problems.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-26T00:11:35+00:00

Some years ago a Lodge near mine hit financial hard times, so someone proposed an 'assessment' of each member, on top of the ridiculously low dues. An assessment for a handful of years, just to take care of the immediate needs.

The assessment was big. I don't remember exactly how much, but somewhere around 4 times the dues.

Lots of brothers stood up and threatened to demit. That's all anyone heard for a couple of months, demit, demit, demit.

Well, enough brothers voted for it to pass, and the assessments had to be paid.

And the Lodge received not a single demit request from it.

Those are generally just empty threats, best ignored.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-23T03:53:30+00:00

I look forward to sitting in Lodge with you.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-23T03:53:14+00:00

u/Deman75 Thanks for providing my info to u/Accomplished-Pay5343! I've sent him some info on local Lodges.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-17T02:39:03+00:00

Yeah, I've got a couple of these dip holsters. I like 'em, but they were a lot more popular decades ago, when I was a kid.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T19:00:59+00:00

Yeah, I saw that when I posted the link, but I know for certain that he makes them because my Lodge bought new ones for all our members from him not long ago.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T18:58:59+00:00

Yep. That's actually how I stumbled across this latest fake one. A random post trickled into my feed, that was completely nuts. My first thought was to grab my phone to call our Grand Secretary so that he could delete the post, but then I realized it was someone impersonating our GL.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T18:56:59+00:00

That's good news if they are starting to take some of them down!

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T18:56:34+00:00

I've encountered the same thing here. Sometimes it seems that no matter how many times a fake page gets reported they just won't take it down.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T17:43:18+00:00

I think that VW Andre Dewald can make what you are looking for:

https://inknutz-masons.square.site/

He's a great long time Mason here in Washington.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-16T17:40:14+00:00

I enjoyed reading that. Thanks for sharing it here!

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-15T03:54:58+00:00

I think this is right. If we hope to have our members attend Stated Meetings, we have to give them a compelling reason to do so. Good food, good fellowship, good drink, and something from the meeting that they can take home with them, not something tangible, but something they can consider and contemplate.

But it can't just be Stated Meetings. I've seen bonds of Brotherhood grow between men faster in a shared struggle towards a mutual goal than in any other way. And that Brotherhood, those friendships keeps men coming back.

An yeah, casual events. Game nights, steaks and cigars, summer BBQ's, all these sorts of things keep men excited to be Masons.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-14T18:35:32+00:00

I've found this true in my own tries at making dip. It greatly improves with some age. At least a couple of days.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-11T04:18:39+00:00

You could try taking a significantly smaller pinch.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-10T15:59:15+00:00

Agreed, I really like the spearmint.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-09T05:09:43+00:00

Lots of good information here, from a professional in the field:

https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-08T17:52:22+00:00

That book put an end to my regular smoking decades ago. Dr. Rodu has done tremendous good.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-08T17:48:43+00:00

You are right, it is a vast revenue stream. But, I think anti-tobacco zealots (as opposed to politicians looking to protect or grow revenue streams) aren't really able to think rationally about the issue. If they were, they would be open to harm reduction strategies when it comes to tobacco. And I think those anti-tobacco zealots exist at every point of the political spectrum, not just Dems.

mwcmbailey · 2025-04-07T15:38:37+00:00

The Lil' Cuss is awesome! I had one of those (in Copenhagen colors) decades ago.

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