Today was our Elder/pastoral staff retreat in the mountains north of Saticoy, east of Camarillo. Gary Rafferty set it up with the owner on the property his grandfather used to own. After great breakfast, we took a two hour vertical loop (five mile hike) - with prayer together in a shady spot at the peak - and then we engaged in the decimation and cathartic slaying of a few boxes of clay pigeons. (No animals were harmed in this testosteronish ritual.) We cooked up some chicken/guacamole burritos, then blew off some more 12-guage shells until our shoulders hurt. Thanks Gary!
- Dale
