Adventures
Saturday Night at The Heeremas
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008(Matt and Nancy sitting across from each other at the dinner table, each messing with their computers…)
Matt: humming annoying song
Nancy: “If you’re trying to impress me, that song isn’t helping.”
Matt: “What if I tried a different one.”
Nancy: Rolls eyes
Matt: sings “You never close your eyes, anymore whe…”
Nancy: interrupting “Okay, THAT makes me want to close […]
Tips for Cleaning and Sealing a Deck
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Do it in the Spring Buy the expensive tools for the job, not the cheap ones. They’ll break and/or not function properly, causing you to renounce your faith. Hand brushing is faster than using a cheap-o pump sprayer, but get a push broom to do it with rather than a 4″ hand brush Use a pressure washer […]
Couscous and dirt
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007So tonight I decided to make couscous (a first for me) as a side dish with our grilled Iowa chops for supper. (Mmmm-mmmmm!) (Matt did a splendiferous job of grilling, thank you my dear.) I’ve been on somewhat of a mission to have Elena try as many new foods as possible that […]
Deep Thoughts From Vacation #1: Cabela’s
Sunday, July 1st, 2007The first major stop on our way up north is always Cabela’s in Owatonna, MN. Probably the greatest outdoor outfitter shopping experience in existence. It’s the Apple store of sporting goods. The main problem? I could spend $25k there and still not feel “outfitted”.
(note: this includes the brand new $16k fishing […]
Any Day Now…
Friday, July 21st, 2006Well, Nancy’s due date was yesterday, it came and went without much fanfare, which is probably okay, but it certainly got us thinking about preparing, and thinking of all the people we’re going to want to contact when things DO happen!
The hospital has wifi, so I plan on Web-casting and live blogging the […]
Happy Halloween From the Lone Strangers
Monday, October 31st, 2005Thanks to everyone who came out to the show last night. Have a safe night tonight.
Shreveport from Megan’s eyes.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Megan has a great writeup of her experiences working for Hirsch Shelter in Shreveport on her blog. Check it out if you haven’t already.
The Hirsch - entry one.
Monday, September 12th, 2005At first I was disappointed that we were not going to Baton Rouge or another city that was actually damaged by the hurricane to help clean up. I was especially jealous when I found out that the other crew was headed down to Mandeville (and farther south and east still). I wanted to […]
Shreveport Day 3
Saturday, September 10th, 2005“I’m not the church going type, but if it weren’t for the Christian Churches, we’d all be flat on our butts.”
Red Cross Volunteer we are working with, to a reporter.
I do not post this quote as a boast, but I am overwhelmed at how all of the residents, most of them headed up by churches, […]
Shreveport Day 1 (update 2)
Thursday, September 8th, 2005Even though I am sitting at a computer in a back room, I managed to get interviewed by Shreveport local news channel 12. We’ll see if I make the cut.
Shreveport: Day 1
Thursday, September 8th, 2005Well, after 15 hours of driving, a few wrong turns, a stop in Texarkana to some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, we’re here in Shreveport.
We are working in the Hirsch Colliseum Red Cross shelter. There are over 1000 refugees here.
Ironically, my job (along with Wendy Rehm) is information services (because that’s what […]
Katrina Broke My Heart
Monday, September 5th, 2005It’s been an intersting weekend. I have been grieving over New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast that has been decimated by the hurricane.
I have also been very challenged by a post by chad called “I’m not willing to go”.
Can you imagine moving to New Orleans right now? Of you course you can’t […]
Our adventures this last week
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005Well, I finally got photos of our vacation posted in our gallery.
Nancy and I got back on Saturday night (Sunday morning actually) from a highly relaxing and refreshing week in the wilderness.
There were sevearl highlight stories of the week:
First would definitely have to be the “Free Mullet Removal” Sign we saw in small town MN […]
I cried too, Kirsten…
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005Mid collapse
Originally uploaded by mushin.
Today, a large piece of my life was imploded…
Knapp Storms. I spent a lot of time in those dorms…
Most people cheered and applauded at the implosion, but I have to admit, I got a little choked up. I […]
Burdock
Friday, July 15th, 2005Instead of spending a relaxing thursday evening installing Movable Type 3.2 on the notourhome.com server, thereby upgrading the software behind everyone’s blogs, I did some good hard yardwork.
Nancy informed me that the 4+ foot tall weeds in the back yard were starting to scare her, (something about yelling “FEEED ME!!!” to her every time she […]
The Windy City
Thursday, July 14th, 2005I just got back from Chicago. It was rather Windy. It was fun to see everyone and ride with Brad Barret there and back.
Here is a sweet photo I took while walking past the Sears Tower:
I am extremely bummed that somehow my phone’s camera setting switched to low res. I’m […]
Catching up
Monday, July 4th, 2005Sorry for the silence this last week. Nancy and I were at the Great Commission Pastors’ and Leaders’ conference. It was an amazing time.
Not only was it a great vacation and a time to meet up with some friends (some old, some new, some I’ve never met in person, and some I haven’t […]
1975 Gibson L-6S Custom, Ebony finish
Sunday, June 5th, 20051975 Gibson L-6S Custom, Ebony finish
Originally uploaded by mushin.
My First E-bay Auction!!! (Where I’m the actual seller)
Check it out.
Vintage 1975 Gibson L-6S, Ebony finish
Chris Tomlin remembered me. (part 2)
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005(If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, please do that first…)
After picking my jaw back up from the floor. I handed him a Rock invite card and told him that our weekly campus ministry gathering was going on and if he could stop by after his set, that would be amazing.
He laughed a little, […]
Chris Tomlin remembered me. (part 1)
Monday, March 7th, 2005Okay, so not exactly. But here’s part of the story:
Nancy and I were able to attend the pre-show “meet and greet” with the “opening acts” (Casting Crowns and Chris Tomlin). Which basically meant that there were about 30 of us lining the walls of a small room in the basement of Hilton Coliseum. […]
