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So, in case I forget or end up running out of time (altogether likely today), we’re heading up into the mountains to our church <\/a>ALPHA <\/a>Retreat. No, Margie isn’t cooking up at Bear Trap Ranch <\/a>(they have a good crew to do that), but she has volunteered to look after the infant population. I’m up there to act as font of wisdom and guru, gathering about me a utterly obedient shadow cult of —<\/p>\n

— oh, um, sorry. I’m up there as a Small Group Facilitator, which I’ve been doing the past several Monday evenings, and will be for a few Monday evenings more. Though not this Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s just drop-dead gorgeous up there, and we expect to have a fun time (albeit sans <\/i>blogging). And, of course, the alarm is turned on, our Rottweiler twins Rend and Sunder are on 4 hour shifts, and the guys in the black helicopters promised they’d keep an eye on things while we were gone. So … no funny stuff, hear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, in case I forget or end up running out of time (altogether likely today), we’re heading up into the mountains to our church ALPHA Retreat. No, Margie isn’t cooking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/us_all_and_the_night_visi.html","url_meta":{"origin":2186,"position":0},"title":"Us-all and the Night Visitor","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-07 10:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned in very passing on Monday that we'd\u00a0 had a raccoon visit that Sunday night.\u00a0\u00a0 No serious damage -- one chocolate bar (amongst others) pulled out and nibbled...","rel":"","context":"In "Pets"","block_context":{"text":"Pets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/pets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/travelin_man.html","url_meta":{"origin":2186,"position":1},"title":"Travelin’ Man","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Apr-05 12:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Big flurry of job-related travel coming up -- 4 evenings the week of the 17th, 6 evenings the week of the 1st, possibly another trip the week in-between. 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