Pre-Meeting Dinners
Pre-Meeting Dinners
Brethren from James M Hays Lodge gather for Dinner before our monthly meeting. Sometimes we benefit from Masonic education when Lodge Counselor and wealth of knowledge, Alan Iding, shares stories about historical facts in masonry or provides insight on varying ways that we can be better husbands, fathers and members of our community. Recently Brother Iding (a Past Grand Master in his own right) shared a story about how Grand Master Paul Revere, an American Patriot famously used his influence in the craft to alert American Colonists that "the British are coming, the British are coming".
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Nate Hudson working thru the entries

It survived the first round

Guests also sitting on the inside

Brothers Karl and Michael wait their turn.

Brothers and guests in the line

And it's Taco Monday!

Shrimp going into the Etouffee mix

April meal and some promotional ideas

The Brothers make their way through the sandwich line

And cabbage finishes it off

Peeling the crawfish tails for the Etouffee in November

We need more tables and chairs!

Socializing during the meal

Nesco filled with meatballs

The tables are filling up again.

The unique first place trophy

Corned beef makes your mouth water!

Brothers start the line

Everything in the pool

Crawfish tails, shrimp and sausage ready to join the mix
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Nate Hudson (judge) gathers his soup samples

The Etouffee tastes like a winner

5 Corned beef briskets ready to go

Brother Bob Manders PM judging the soup contest

First-place winner, Lady Dawn with the trophy

Once again, all seats filled up at a Hays Lodge meal!

Brothers enjoying good food and good company

Rice is also ready

The Nesco is full of Sloppy Joe's meat for the meal before the October meeting

Sausage has joined the trinity in the Nesco

No one is talking. Food must be good.

Brother Jim starts building his tacos.

The base for the March corned beef meal is ready

Brothers start working thru the line

The Brothers enjoying the soup

Brother Jim and visiting Brother Matt look at the Cinco de Mayo info before building their tacos.

Swedish meatballs, bread and carrot cake

We may have to revisit the Etouffee in the future.

The sandwich assembly begins.

April subs

And now the crawfish tails

Brother Charles and Brother Ron compare notes

Looks like all the seats are taken at a Hays Lodge meal!

The seafood Etouffee is ready

Swedish Meatballs ready for the Jan. 2024 Installation

The judges gathering the soup samples

The 2023 chicken soup contest is on!

First time this Nesco has been full with Etouffee

Brothers enjoying soup and conversation

The line keeps moving along.

Running low on chairs again

The buffet line is just about ready

With home-made cornbread to compliment the soup