Did get the new trees watered. Although with the rain storm we are getting tonight, we probably didn't need to. My son had an old rain barrel he loaned us. It had a spicket on it so we loaded into the trailer that we pull behind the lawn mower and hooked a hose to it. It worked really good. The new trees are spread over several acres. It is a lot easier than carrying buckets of water. A while back someone asked me why I have belonged to the Eastern Stars, which is part of the Masonic family, for so long (over 50 years). Though the years I have tried to explain what the Masonic family does. Today on facebook there was an explanation of the that I would like to share:
Masonry teaches that each person has a responsibility to make things better in the world. Most individuals won't be the ones to find a cure for cancer, or eliminate poverty, or help create world peace, but every man and woman and child can do something to help others and to make things a little better. Masonry is deeply involved with helping people-it spends more than $1.4 million dollars every day in the United States, just to make life a little easier. And the great majority of that help goes to people who are not Masons.
Some of these charities are vast projects, like the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Burns Institutes. Also, Scottish Rite Masons maintain a nationwide network of over 100 Childhood Language Disorders Clinics, Centers and Programs. Each helps children afflicted by such conditions as aphasia, dyslexia, stuttering and related learning or speech disorders. The Grand Lodge of Florida supports the The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory an internationally recognized biomedical research institute.
Some of these charities are vast projects, like the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Burns Institutes. Also, Scottish Rite Masons maintain a nationwide network of over 100 Childhood Language Disorders Clinics, Centers and Programs. Each helps children afflicted by such conditions as aphasia, dyslexia, stuttering and related learning or speech disorders. The Grand Lodge of Florida supports the The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory an internationally recognized biomedical research institute.
Some services are less noticeable, like helping a widow pay her electric bill or buying coats and shoes for disadvantaged children. And there's just about anything you can think of in-between. But with projects large or small, the Masons of a lodge try to help make the world a better place. The lodge gives them a way to combine with others to do even more good.
The Eastern Star portion of Masonic Family allows women to assist the the men. Both men and women belong to the Eastern Star. Only men belong to the Masons, Scottich Rites, and other mason divisions.
My son was born with birth defects of the back. The Shriners hospital in Chicago and in South Carolina repaired his back the best they could and he is mobile and holds a full-time job as a teacher in a local school. If it was not for the wonderful care he received though the Shriners Hospital he would be in a wheel chair today. They flew 8 doctors in from various places in the United States to operate on him. We could never have afforded the care he received for free.
Hope you had a good day.
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