Nearest I came was when we were clearing out Emporia prior to sale and J@que H rounded us worker bees all up one evening and took us to the camp fire area. It just seemed like a nice relaxing time. She seemed to enjoy it too.
Nobody else around, no Ed H or LCM or anybody. Of course it would be a relaxing time.
When I was in FellowLaborers, we had a work detail to build a fire circle. We stayed up all night, cutting sod, with a special machine, and relaying it around a fire circle. I don't remember much of what was said around that fire pit but the drudgery of building it is etched in my memory.
I seem to recall not too long after the FLO campfire area construction, some or all of us were required to spend the night there in sleeping bags, which in my little mind sucks like an open chest wound. This was in an area on the far side of a creek, kinda woodsy, with the garden on one side and the creek on the other. Very early, right about dark-thirty, some of us were awakened by an ungodly scream, which a country girl from FLO 3 informed us was a raccoon, after the corn in the garden.
Was it an in-depth spiritual experience for me? No, but I still hate sleeping outside and I don't much like raccoons, either.
WG, there's a commercial about eyeglasses in which a woman thinks she is calling her cat to come inside and instead it's a raccoon. Absolutely hilarious
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skyrider
Ditto
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WordWolf
Oh, one from Column A, one from Column B.
vpw was OPPORTUNISTIC.
He saw an ad for a class, went and bullied his way into the class, then plagiarized it
and charged money for it, calling it "his" class.
He met a man who understood The Spirit, read his book, then had it retyped
and charged money for it, calling it "his" book.
He read an article about preaching being an up-and-coming field, and he went into preaching.
He read an article about young Christians in a sexually-permissive environment, went and
impressed them using material from the class and book, and co-opted their ministries
into his own, calling them "his kids."
He once claimed that the "night owls" began BY ACCIDENT, and I think that was true.
He went to relax after an evening teaching, and people, excited, came over to talk
to them. This provided a great INFORMAL opportunity to indoctrinate and pass on his
opinions on many subjects. Eventually, he formalized them, dividing them into
night owls and hoot owls (AFTER MIDNIGHT), and made them a more FORMAL opportunity
to indoctrinate.
But at first, it developed organically, then vpw came along and formalized it, strangling
the life out of it. Pretty much the same scenario as he did with everything else.
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OldSkool
Guess the old geezer was right when he said "Nothing profitable happens after midnight."
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excathedra
oh man, come on. it was at one of those soft sweet sharings that he talked about what he had done to his daughter
what a pig
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Missed out on all of those.
Nearest I came was when we were clearing out Emporia prior to sale and J@que H rounded us worker bees all up one evening and took us to the camp fire area. It just seemed like a nice relaxing time. She seemed to enjoy it too.
Nobody else around, no Ed H or LCM or anybody. Of course it would be a relaxing time.
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Thomas Loy Bumgarner
tenting tonight around the old campfire - I think that was an old civil war song
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waysider
When I was in FellowLaborers, we had a work detail to build a fire circle. We stayed up all night, cutting sod, with a special machine, and relaying it around a fire circle. I don't remember much of what was said around that fire pit but the drudgery of building it is etched in my memory.
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Thomas Loy Bumgarner
should have said the old campground
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johniam
quote: Were they genuine...
Was it at night? Was there a campfire? Were any owls present? Sounds like it was 2/3 genuine.
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Ham
Some of the FINEST campfires and night owls, were immediately outside of my residence, a few years ago.
the landlord allowed us to construct a nice fire pit in front, we were several miles outside of town..
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waysider
Did you have "mannies"?
hahahahaha!
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excathedra
they were settings in the dark where an old man could sip on his booze and share all his grossness
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I seem to recall not too long after the FLO campfire area construction, some or all of us were required to spend the night there in sleeping bags, which in my little mind sucks like an open chest wound. This was in an area on the far side of a creek, kinda woodsy, with the garden on one side and the creek on the other. Very early, right about dark-thirty, some of us were awakened by an ungodly scream, which a country girl from FLO 3 informed us was a raccoon, after the corn in the garden.
Was it an in-depth spiritual experience for me? No, but I still hate sleeping outside and I don't much like raccoons, either.
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Thomas Loy Bumgarner
WG, there's a commercial about eyeglasses in which a woman thinks she is calling her cat to come inside and instead it's a raccoon. Absolutely hilarious
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Watered Garden
I love that commercial! But it's not me, honest! I wear contacts most of the time anyway.
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