Naznet Retreat, Pond, Windsor, NH

[Doug Kitchen]

Early on Saturday morning, Hans suggested I take some pictures down by the pond. There was still some slight fog coming off the water and there was almost no wind.

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If you squint your eyes you might see John Reilly's pontoon boat. Or perhaps Dennis Scott's parasail. :) (it's a long story)

Doug

[Doug Kitchen]

The second batch... The first one is the previous sunset. The sky seemed much more brilliant when I headed down. Unfortunately, brilliant sunsets only exist for a moment in time.

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[David Troxler]

If you squint your eyes you might see John Reilly's pontoon boat. Or perhaps Dennis Scott's parasail. :) (it's a long story)

Doug

No one in their right mind wants you to go tell that story, most of all Dennis.

[Jim Chabot]

If you squint your eyes you might see John Reilly's pontoon boat. Or perhaps Dennis Scott's parasail. :) (it's a long story)

Doug

Sure glad that you framed the shots showing little sky. Dennis is high above the treeline and cannot be seen in these pics.

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[John Reilly]

Doug and I talked about working on the story of the "NAZNET Retreat and its Pontoon Boat Excursion on White Pond with Barbecued Short Ribs on an open charcoal fire!" But we did not get the script revised. The script would include everyone with equal and shared humility. Jesus said twice in Luke, "He who humbles himself in a sinking pontoon boat will be lifted up and exalted by a parasail. And Peter writes in 1 Peter 5:5 , He who has wet clothes or no clothes at all will 'Clothed yourselves with humility." Jim Chabot will be in charge of the cooking the short ribs on the open charcoal fire. Thanks Jim.

[Hans Deventer]

Doug and I talked about working on the story of the "NAZNET Retreat and its Pontoon Boat Excursion on White Pond with Barbecued Short Ribs on an open charcoal fire!"

I think Edwin and I were the only ones to have actually taken a canoe ride on the lake :smilies0262:

[John Reilly]

I am having withdrawal. I might need to skip work one beautiful sunny day and go up to the lake and take a canoe out to find the lost pontoon boat. I think I left my cell phone on the pontoon boat.

[John Kennedy]

This barbecue-on-a-boat thing reminds me of a very funny story written by Garison Keilor about a convention of Lutheran ministers in Lake Woebegone. In fact, Keilor used a variant of the tale in his monologue at Pt. Loma that tied Lake Woebegone to the Theosophists who built the original buildings on the Pt. Loma campus.

[Gina Stevenson]

Sure glad that you framed the shots showing little sky. Dennis is high above the treeline and cannot be seen in these pics.

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Oh, did Dennis have a Mary Poppins moment? :smilies0262:

[Dennis M. Scott]

Lies, lies, all lies.

At district assembly, John Reilly reported for the New Hampshire mission area. John may have embellished an imaginary tale that did, indeed, sound like Garison Keiler. Shortening a long and totally unfounded story that had me parasailing scantily clad over the pond at district camp, it culminated in my crawling off the platform across the choir loft, dying of embarassment. The district superintendent still checks to see if I'm ok, every time she sees me. For some reason, since then we've been asked to not let John present the mission area report.

District assembly is not near as exciting now.

[Melissa DeBono]

I will attest that Dennis was attired in an appropriate manner at all public gatherings and did not engage in any extreme sports.

[John Kennedy]

Lies, lies, all lies.

At district assembly, John Reilly reported for the New Hampshire mission area. John may have embellished an imaginary tale that did, indeed, sound like Garison Keiler. Shortening a long and totally unfounded story that had me parasailing scantily clad over the pond at district camp, it culminated in my crawling off the platform across the choir loft, dying of embarassment. The district superintendent still checks to see if I'm ok, every time she sees me. For some reason, since then we've been asked to not let John present the mission area report.

District assembly is not near as exciting now.

Too bad about the decline in DA excitement. The last reallhy exciting moment I experienced in a DA was years ago on the old San Antonio District when an elderly pastor went and wrapped himself in the American flag when the GS (who was generally thought of as the 'voice of God') asked him to shorten his report to allow for an earlier lunch adjournment. The theatre has seen few such moments in our lifetime.

[Dennis M. Scott]

I remember years ago when John Hancock and Morton Estep at the West Virginia District Assembly got sparing about which one of them loved their wife the more. Finally, John Hancock interrupted the GS and asked permission for him and his wife, Venita, to leave the assembly so he could go show her how much he loved her. The assembly broke into raucus laughter, but the GS did not find it near as humorous.

[John Kennedy]

I remember years ago when John Hancock and Morton Estep at the West Virginia District Assembly got sparing about which one of them loved their wife the more. Finally, John Hancock interrupted the GS and asked permission for him and his wife, Venita, to leave the assembly so he could go show her how much he loved her. The assembly broke into raucus laughter, but the GS did not find it near as humorous.

Wonder if it was the same GS.

[Dennis M. Scott]

Wonder if it was the same GS.

As I recall, this GS didn't have a low voice, white shirt with black tie, but looked a little like Winston Churchill.

[John Kennedy]

Well, this one went to incredible lengths in a subsequent assembly at which he was presiding, to avoid any sort of conflict with the pastor in question.
Reminded me of the line in Jim Croce's "Bad, bad Leroy Brown": "You don't tug on Superman's cape; you don't spit into the wind; you don't pull the mask on the ol' Lone Ranger; and you don't mess around with Jim...."
I think the old pastor represented a sort of primal force of nature that this particular GS had never before confronted. Talk about adult education.