September 27, 2008
Bumps
We spent the evening with our friends Max and Courtney who are also expecting, within two weeks of us!
Here is a photo of the girls, sorry it was dark out, and I took this photo with my phone, so no flash.
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March 16, 2008
March Madness
No, we are not becoming NCAA basket ball fans, we have enough madness in March without trying to keep track of collegiate sports.
We started the month engaging in Snow Sports with Mom and Dad Heeres.
3 feet or more of base on nice groomed trails, good and cold so things didn't get too sloppy (read as high of 9 degrees F, and lows around -19).
Seven days later almost all of the snow was gone (at least in Grand Rapids) and a nice frost was about all that remained of the bitter cold of a week earlier.
And it was time to get back to the long neglected Brick Oven.
One day closer to baking our bread in a traditional wood fired oven...
Next weekend we get to celebrate with my Sister and her family the finalization of the adoption of their third daughter.
Maybe we can get a little more work on the oven snuck in there before it gets to April.
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February 26, 2008
Meanwhile...
I have been keeping busy while Carrie is away, slaving away cleaning the house, shoveling the mounds of snow... ok so that's not entirely true. Ok so it's not true at all. But I have been keeping busy.
First I finished the broom closet... ok so it still needs a little touch-up painting, but other than that it is done.
Last tuesday night I left for Da UP for a while. First was 3 days of seminars, not nearly so bad as it sounds, most of them were interesting, at least to me.
After the conference, and all the joys of staying at the casino (one of the most depressing places I can think of, but that is a different rant for a different post) I headed over to South Range to see our friends Matt and Vicky.
Matt and I went down to the Mine site to get some things, they had a little bit of snow about 3 feet on the roof of the mobile home.
This fall I heard that the ski resort at the porcupine mountains had added back-country style skiing, accessed by Snow Cat. I have wanted to ride in a Snow Cat for a long time, and while I did get a short ride in one on our honeymoon, it wasn't really a good thing (seeing as it was being used for and ambulance, because Carrie was hurt. As a side note, any of you out there getting married a small piece of advice, don't try new sports on your honeymoon). In any case, they have Snow Cat skiing, I want to go Snow Cat skiing, it was a perfect match.
Fortunately it was my friend Matt that I can blame for my taste in skiing, un-groomed runs through glades, and he also has wanted to ride in a Snow Cat, so it didn't take much convincing to get him to go with me.
The snow conditions were perfect, the mountain was uncrowded, the sky was crystal clear, and the views were amazing. The pictures do not do it justice.
On Sunday we went tromping around the woods behind the house in snowshoes, clearing branches to make a path so that vicky could go XC Skiing back there.
In all it was a great weekend, but I did really miss sharing it.
The drive home was not too bad, I managed to get an e-audio book from the library downloaded to my phone to listen to on the drive home. A 10 hour drive alone is much better when your mind is being occupied, in fact I was a little disappointed that my drive was done before my book.
This week I am afraid it is just work, and cleaning the house so that It will be clean when Carrie gets home... but I may find time to sneak out and kill a wabbit...
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February 06, 2008
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday today. From ashes did I come, to ashes will I return.
It's not about me. It's not about my life. Though I know - in my head if not always in my heart - that God loves me and that he has a plan, I also know that his plan for my life might not be all roses. Heck, it might not even be dandelions that have a bright spot but are otherwise thistly or pesky.
I know that even though the circumstances of my life may suck He knows what he's doing and he's working it to his glory. Even - or maybe especially - when it doesn't feel like it.
Just like the story in the first book of Kings when the prophet Elijah called down fire from heaven to consume a (drenched) offering, when the prophets of Baal were trying all day to do the same of their god. When Yahweh sent fire in response to Elijah's simple prayer and it licked up every scrap of the offering And all the water it had been drenched with, Elijah was on a high. He realized, he knew in his soul, that God was with him, that God was protecting him. And then he slaughtered all the 450 prophets of Baal.
But then Elijah heard that Jezebel - the queen who worshipped Baal and employed all those 450 prophets of Baal - was out to get him. The queen was out to get him and he turned tail and ran. He was afraid. Depressed and afraid, he asked God to just let him die rather than face the queen. God didn't let him die, and he didn't get rid of the queen either. But he strengthened Elijah and he ran for his life.
How is it that in one afternoon, in the matter of a few hours, Elijah could go from such a high to such a low? From feeling so close to God to feeling the lowest, most worthless being on earth, wanting just to curl up and die?
That is a question I do not have the answer to my friends, but it gives me comfort. Why? Because sometimes I feel the same way.
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January 12, 2008
Grandpa Hank
One Dapper Young Man.
That's my granddad. Henry H Heeres, born 12 May 1919. We visited with him just before Christmas, with his "new" wife Kathryn. They've been married now just over 6 years, ages-old friends who lost their spouses to time and decided to grow old together. He'll be 89 in May.
I found this picture up on the shelf in the dining room next to all the photos of kids and grandkids and Great grand kids...
He's now in the hospital. He went in to the doc on Wednesday with a sore heart. The doc admitted him and said it's a mild case of congestive heart failure and pneumonia. "Mild failure"? I don't get it. They've got him under observation and have been running lots of tests to try to figure out how to get his heart running on all cylinders again.
I'm proud of my granddad.
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November 08, 2007
by the way...
We're not still on vacation, but we Have been too busy finishing details in the bathroom and on the patio and Starting a house painting (just the trim) project to get pictures up.
Vaca was fab. Of course. How can one not be rejeuvenated by God's Wild Creation and tumbling cascades of water? Especially when that one has dry feet?
The patio has all the sand swept in all the cracks and maybe we'll have a chance to compact it before Christmas - but I'm not holding my breath! The bathroom now has a functioning toilet again, a functioning sink again, and the shower tile (corners) are caulked - we were able to shower there last night and brush our teeth in the sink this morning - Hooray!!! Now "all" that's left is changing the lights, installing the new outlets in their cubbies, the medicine cab, and the trim. But it's functional.
Because Saturday was moderately warm (there was frost on the roof at 8am, but by 2pm it was about 50. Warm enough to work outside with longsleeves on), and our windows are in bad need of painting, Buddy Dave came over and helped us prep for that project. We'll probably hire the actual painting done, but wanted to fill the cracks, replace the missing trim pieces, and get a layer of primer on there before much more weather happens and damages the wood further.
Stay tuned for pictures. I promise.
oh, and my test monday: all clear. no pictures of that.
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May 31, 2007
They found a match.
Many of you don't know that we've experienced one attack after another in the last month. May has been hard.
The first week after our return from Egypt was spent recouperating from jet lag. The next ten days I was very sick, probably with a bug I caught on the plane: cold turned sinus- and bronchial-infection. Then came two days of all-day team meetings for my office (which make me tired anyway). The very next day someone broke into our house.
Yup. That's right, someone broke in to our home.
And took 2 computers.
2 cameras.
1 pda.
1 digital mouse.
the bags that go with the computers and the cameras.
emptied a change jar.
and took another change jar, this one was foreign coins.
oh yeah. and in the cameras were our pictures of egypt.
so the next two weeks were packed with phone calls to the detective unit of the grpd, the insurance company, and searching through our old records-that-were-still-in-boxes-from-living-overseas to prove ownership of the stolen items.
and then, just when i was getting all those things in order, my dad called last tuesday morning at 7am with news that mom was in the hospital.
and wednesday he called again at 5:30 in the morning to say that mom was being rolled into surgery.
and the next 6 days were spent at her bedside.
saturday night it rained. beautiful sweet rain. sunday morning we noticed (after the rain had stopped) that there is a new addition to the door-ding arrangement on my little jetta's doors.
in the parking lot of charlevoix area hospital, someone had left in a hurry in the rain and COLLAPSED a rear door with their bumper.
and they didn't leave a note. and we didn't notice it because of the dark and rain and preoccupied state of our minds.
but there's a bright side to all of this, well, a few actually:
jet lag is over. my cold is over. my meetings are over. and
they found him. they found the kid that broke in and took our things. they didn't find our stuff, but they have found him and he has confessed to both the b&e and the theft. he's in juvenile detention right now. yup. a minor.
and mom went home yesterday (hi mom!) after 10 days in the hospital.
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March 03, 2007
In like a lion, out like a lamb...
So the saying goes anyway. Actually, the first day of March was rainy and more like slush falling from the sky than snow. But by midday Friday (after a day and a half) the slush turned to snow and by nightfall we a good few inches.
The slush froze underneath and made for really yucky driving conditions but the top sure was purty.
We purchased a new snowblower yesterday. The junker, ahem I mean refurbished, one my dad gave us in the fall weighs about 200 pounds and dan has trouble weilding it. Not to mention that little things kept going wrong with it to the point that dan was spending more time tinkering with it than actually using it. In all of the snows that we had this year, only once did it work properly.
So we had decided to get a new one and man am I glad we got it when we did! There was at least 6 inches of snow on all the walks and drive this morning, AND it had drifted really severely across the steps...
I got to run the blower while dan shoveled... And I was done first! AND I did ours and two neighbors' walks! Oh, and guess what color it is. As if color should have anything to do with picking out which snowblower to buy.
Orange.
:)
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September 17, 2006
Elim
We were privileged to serve at a retreat for global workers and pastors this last week in Huron City, Michigan, a short four hour drive from our home in GR. There were workers from around the world and we got to hear their stories and love on them for 5 beautiful, glorious, rainy days. The Lord is good.
This great couple, Henry and Diane, had a vision a number of years ago to share their family's summer property, which has been passed down in Diane's family since the 1860's, with folks on home assignment. See, they have always gone there in the summers to get rested and rejeuvenated by the waters of Lake Huron. They chose to name the place Elim, after the "Wells of Moses" in Exodus 15:27, where the Israelites rested after coming through the Red Sea, escaping Pharoah's army. Of course, there aren't any palm trees like there were in Exodus, but it is surely a place of refreshment for all those who come.
Henry and Diane have worked it out with their extended family to rent the different homes and buildings on the property during the months of May, June, and September, and offer it to these global workers a week at a time, free of charge to them. There is often a deficit, but they see the hand of God at work very often as He provides the funding on His timeline. In the case of this year a check came on deadline day in the amount of $3000, to entirely cover the anticipated deficit, and they didn't have to cancel a week's retreat.
The retreats are very unstructured, with the only "requirements" being dinner as a group each evening Sunday through Thursday, a prayer appointment with staff on Monday, and a scripture lesson on Wednesday. The rest of the time was in their hands to seek the Lord through prayer, personal study, or interactions with others. Last week, there were 17 guests and 10 staff (that'd be us) who had the great privilege to be shut indoors next to warm cozy fireplaces because of rain outside. The sun tried to poke through on Thursday, and finally succeeded on Friday, departure day. Dan and I stuck around a bit on Friday to take advantage of the calmer waters and go for a spin in the kayaks.
We took a walk in the woods on Thursday, and because of all the rain, there were mushrooms everywhere. Earlier in the week, someone picked a puff-ball the size of a soccer ball and grilled it for dinner. I'm not so sure these would have been edible.
Some pics of us, the queens of the kitchen, our gracious hosts, and the whole gang of us
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September 05, 2006
labor day weekend with holly and massi
we have no pictures of the mal-fated canoe trip, but here's a couple of the good times we had with holly and massi. we went to the Michigan State Recreation Area north of Ludington to camp - with no power and no showers for the weekend.
We saw wildlife - porcupines in trees and fuzzy caterpillars
We took turns in a borrowed hammock
Saw beautiful sunsets over Lake Michigan
We stopped in Ludington on our way back to Grand Rapids (of course stopping at the House of Flavors), and caught a glimpse of a freighter heading out of the harbor. Dan and Massi decided to go for a paddle on the calmer waters between the piers, and holly and I went for a stroll.
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August 26, 2006
our nieces
Tim and Heidi are now the proud parents of two girls :) The comment was made that if they're back in the hospital next August, they'll have to have a suite instead of a standard room... of course, if they're in the hospital again next August, I think it won't be the maternity ward, but the mental ward!
Sarah joined the world on August 1st, and Elizabeth had her first birthday on the 25th.
Uncle Dan, Aunt Carrie, and Daddy Tim walking big sister Elizabeth
"cousin" Cierra with baby Sarah and Grandpa Ivan - uncle Jeff and aunt Jacquelyn
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August 14, 2006
a day at the lake...
where else but Torch? with friends Cedric and Leslie and Mom and Dad Heeres, we spent hours at the south end sand bar on Saturday the 12th, and then had a late lunch (can 5 o'clock still be considered lunch?) at the dockside... ah, sweet memories of days gone by.
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July 06, 2006
Up, up, and away. And back again.
We took advantage of the long holiday weekend and joined all the other crazies on the road to make our annual trek to the north country, the land of black flies and no cell coverage.
Carrie & Henry, climbing. Dan at the section corner. Henry-aka Fluffy-20 weeks.
By the way, Henry is the puppy we transported from Saginaw to the Bridge a couple months back for Matt and Vic. He's more than tripled in size since we saw him last, and is afraid of nothing.
Some random flowers along the wagon road.
And... a 54' WalMart truck whose driver wanted a speedy solo miner's tour. He had no problem whatsoever getting his rig turned around in the parking lot, but some vacationers have trouble with their 28' travel trailers...
A quick stop at Canyon Falls south of Baraga on the way back home,
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June 04, 2006
His Faithfulness reaches to the sky
A little update for everyone on the job front:
I got a job in a greenhouse for two weeks at the beginning of May. The same day that I started there, I got a call from some friends of ours who run a small company doing home remodelling. They needed help with bookkeeping, deliveries, and... flooring installations. So, since the middle of May I've been working for them.
Then, last week Tuesday, the 23rd, I got a call from the CRC, who I interviewed with back in March. Last go-round, I was interviewing for a position in the Social Justice and Hunger Action department, and was their 2nd choice. He recommended me for a position over in the World Relief Committee that was posted just after I interviewed for SJ/HA, and said I should hear something within a week. Well, two months later I got the call. I met with Karl Westerhof the following morning at 7am, before I had to report for work at the Home Design Studio. He was on vacation then Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, for the Memorial Day weekend, but told me he wanted to have everything wrapped up before the 4th (that's today) when his son comes home from overseas. He called me again on Wednesday, asking for a second interview. So Thursday morning I went in, and then Friday afternoon at four I got a call with the offer! It has been a long wait, but I'm very proud (if I can use that word) that I will be working for an organization that is involved in bringing relief to hurting people around the world. I start on the 19th.
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May 03, 2006
We're Back!
We've been experiencing some technical difficulties, but now we're back, up and running. Thanks Shmuel :)
And.... (drum roll please - thanks Kellen) - CARRIE HAS A JOB!!
Two actually. Last Thursday morning, I pulled out the the phone book and called all the green houses within a 10 mile radius (you'd be surprised how many there are). Most were "all set", but a couple said to come in and submit an application... that consisted of chatting with the owner and leaving my phone number. Well, long story short, I started Monday at Huizenga Brothers Greenhouse, on Eastern south of 28th St. It's about 2 1/2 miles from here, and I'm there until Mother's Day, helping to fill orders to be shipped out to stores around the state.
And then, Monday night I got a call from a friend of ours who owns Home Design Studios. They are in desparate need of a part-time bookeeper, a part-time delivery person, and another installer. He asked if would be interested in working for them and which would I like to do? I'll be doing a combination of all three, and will start next week working a couple hours a day after I'm finished at the greenhouse. Then after Mother's Day, I'm there as much as they need me.
Praise God with me, I'm giving him another round of applause!
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March 16, 2006
And the search continues...
Realizing that perhaps God has other things in mind than a job for me, I am nonetheless soliciting your advice and assistance in a job search. The market is bad at the moment, and I've had just two interviews in 6 months of searching and applying.
Here's the resume again, if you've got any great leads for me. And yes, I've applied at the mall! Download the file
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Peace and Quiet
Looking for a summer getaway? Boy, have I got a deal for you!
Maybe you remember how my parents bought a fishing camp last summer? Well they've got it all fixed up real nice and they're renting the cabins out by the week. Check out the website for Yettaw Cottages and let me know what you think of the site... you guessed it, I'm the webmaster. Scary thought, isn't it?
If the place looks good, let them know you heard about it from me, and maybe they'll give you a deal... or at least invite you over for a bonfire or something. After all, they live just 3 properties down the lake from the camp!
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February 05, 2006
Got Skype?
Ever heard of VOIP? If you have a computer with speakers and a microphone jack, and a good internet connection, then you can use that computer as your telephone. Ok, so it may not completely replace the phone, but it may very well reduce your phone bill.
We recently had broadband internet installed here at our house and now we can talk to Egypt, or anywhere else in the world for that matter, for absolutely nothing... provided that the people on the other end also have Skype.
If you've got it, add us to your list (carrieanddan), and then give us a buzz.
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February 01, 2006
a book report.
Just before I left for Egypt, a woman that I study with recommended a book to our study group. Nancy was just in the middle of it and was enthralled by how this writer is able to put into words and make sense out of the Bible's teachings on sexual purity. That's right, sexual purity. I really did just put that word on my blog. The title of the book is "Real Sex: the naked truth about chastity", author is Lauren Winner.
Now, if you're like me, you think of chastity as "no sex, ever." Having now read this book, my eyes have been opened that as a married couple we have a responsibility to God and the greater community to also be actively practicing chastity. Chastity is not "no sex, ever, period," but rather it's "doing sex God's way". Let's get rid of the idea that sexuality is just private (in that it's "none of your business") but very public (have you ever noticed the very sexual way that people are dressing these days?), and replace it with what scripture teaches about healthy, open relationships where we are close enough to talk about sex and sexual responsibility. So I can get up in your business when I think you're spending too much time alone with what's-his-name, and you also can help me by not letting me get too wrapped in couples-world.
Lauren points out the importance of cross-demographic community groups (small group, house church, cell, Bible study, etc). While it is essential that we maintain relationships with people of our same demographic (singles, seniors, young families, etc), it is also essential that we not limit ourselves to those relationships.
I meet every week with this group of women at Mars Hill, and we study the Word of God and we talk about life. The common denominator is that we are all women, but we are all from different backgrounds and are in all different stages of life. I'm a newlywed with no kids, there's two others who are newlyweds, one of them is pregnant, there's a single woman, a widow, some women with kids out of college, and one woman with kids still in high school. So though we are all women, we have much to learn from one another because we are in different stages of life.
I love studying with other women, but I love it too that we are not all newlyweds with no children. I think this is what Lauren is getting at. I think this is something that is lacking these days. We don't invest enough time cross-generationally or cross-demographically. And because we don't spend enough time investing in these relationships, we have lost the ability to learn from one another and have those healthy, accountabiity-holding relationships offered by singles communing with mothers communing with widows communing with marrieds.
Thanks Nancy for tipping me off to this book. And thanks ladies for being real and making our community real. And thanks Lauren, for using the gift God has given you to bring truth to life.
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January 27, 2006
Safe and Sound, and wired...
Back in the arms of my beloved and well rested after the long journey, I write to you from Grand Rapids, once again.
The week before I left for Egypt, we called the phone company to get a phone line hooked up so that we could have dsl brought in. The day after I left, the technician came and got us all squared away. So now, from the comfort of our own home, we can keep you a bit better updated.
I have brought home with me many Egyptian specialities, particularly of our friend Ayman - "the box man" - and many many scarves. If you care to have a look at them and perhaps do a little haggling to get your very own Egyptian souvenir, the bazaar is now open: come on over! In true Egyptian fashion, I make you good price because you are my friend.
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November 25, 2005
it's Thanksgiving, and we're thankful for...
What a blessing it is to have been with family to celebrate Thanksgiving. My aunt Martha hitched a ride with a co-worker from North Carolina to Holland and we picked her up at 7:30 Wednesday night at the exit, and immediately made tracks north. Poor girl, she'd just ridden in a car for something like 11 hours already that day, and we added another 4 to it! But having heard the forecast we decided not to wait until morning as originally planned. We arrived at my parents' close to midnight, only experiencing the really blowy stuff once we got as far as Fife Lake, with only an hour to go.
It snowed last week Wednesday and Thursday, as we were flying out to Houston for Binti's wedding... that's Christin, our old roommate from Cairo. But warmer weather over the weekend melted it all away, until this week Wednesday when it started snowing again! And it's been snowing pretty steady since Wednesday morning. Thursday morning, we woke up on the lake with nearly two foot waves, which is quite a feat for such a small lake that my parents live on. But Thursday night just before bed we noticed that there was no longer any wave action on the lake and it had indeed frozen over! This morning when we woke up, instead of the two foot breakers, there was a very serene layer of snow on the lake, with softly falling snow drifting down just like a snow globe. Beautiful.
We are so thankful to have our family around us. We are so thankful for such a beautiful change in the weather patterns. We are so thankful for such a beautiful and God-honoring wedding ceremony that we experienced last weekend. And we are so thankful for a healthy, beautiful baby Eloise that was born this Tuesday to our friends Neil and Melinda in Cairo.
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July 26, 2005
Great is Thy Faithfulness
So we were house sitting last month for our friends in East, and they returned last Tuesday the 19th and we had to vacate. By the 15th when we still didn't know where we'd be headed, we let some people know. Funny how he works sometimes, God waited until we swallowed our pride and asked for help before he revealed that next step to us. The next morning, my (Carrie's) childhood pastor got ahold of my parents trying to track us down because their house was about to be vacant and they wanted somebody living in it! Jim and Sharon, before living in Ellsworth and shepherding the Belltower flock, used to live in Mexico. They were in Ellsworth my whole life, until about the same time that I graduated from HS, when they went back to Mexico. That was 10 years ago (oh my gosh, are we getting old or what... I've been out of high school TEN years??). As of two years ago, 3 of their four children had moved to Zeeland, MI, and as interest rates were SO SO low, they decided to buy a house in that area for when they would one day retire. Since they bought their home they've never really unpacked there, only staying there while home on short visits, and the house has only been lived in by people who needed it for the short-term. I think one woman was there for a month, and a single youth pastor for 6 months. Anyway, as of the 16th (the day AFTER we asked for help), they were getting frantic to find someone to occupy their house beginning the 19th, when they were to fly to Mexico. This was the very same day that we needed to vacate our previous place! Just in case it wasn't obvious enough, God made it the same date. So we are sub-urbanites now, and looking for work in the area of Zeeland. My "kids" leave tomorrow. I'll drive them to Chicago and say goodbye as they are whisked away back to Spain. It has been a whirlwind of a month and, though I will be happy to have some rest, I will miss them dearly. I've had a really great group of kids!
See our resumes: Dan's and Carrie's, and spread the word if you know anybody that could use our talents.
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July 02, 2005
Long Term Goals
I was asked this past week what my "long-term goals" were. This got me thinking, and here is what I have come up with: My long-term goal is to stay in one place for 3 weeks. I know this does not sound long-term at all, in fact, it probably sounds extremely short-term. However, to us at this point, three weeks is long term. For the past two months, the longest we have stayed in one place is two weeks, and that was only Carrie who was there for the full two weeks, as I was in da' UP with Matt and Vicky for part of that time. We have given ourselves the title of "Urban Nomads" because we have been moving around so much. I will tell you what, we are getting awefully good at packing up and living out of a suitcase. Presently we are house/dog sitting at the home of the VanderKolk's while they are away. They have wiFi... yippie!!!
As Carrie has already relayed, she is working with a group of High School students from Spain for the month of July, taking them to various activities and sights in the area. I am still in search of a job, preferably in Surveying. Potential Employers, check out my resume.
So far I have had only one offer, and it was in the far reaches of da' U.P., and was not enough to ensure that we would not starve (or freeze) to death. We still have little-to-no idea of what is going on in our lives, and living this way is not getting any easier. We have started a club/support group, which we are calling "inFlux", for people who are in transition and don't know what's next. We were thinking to have T-shirts printed up, but then we realised that T-shirts cost money, and we don't have any... so I think we will just borrow a magic marker and write it on. Our friend Chad, or maybe his wife Kris, offered a motto of "I don't hear voices, but I'm listening" which we adopted even before we had a name for our group. All this being said, we are very busy moving and shaking, or at least moving. We greatly appreciate your thoughts and prayers during our time inFlux. If you wish to join inFlux, please send us an email (or post a reply here) stating your intentions, and find a magic marker and an old T-shirt!
Waiting and Wondering,
DAN
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May 20, 2005
Yettaw's Camp
Carrie's Dad has joked for years that he was going to find a third job for her Mom, who is a home health nurse and the Township Clerk. Well, last month that joke turned into reality, although he got himself into a lot more work, too. They are the proud new owners of Yettaw's Camp, a small "resort" on the same lake which they live on. The camp consists of two 3-bedroom cabins, some old fishing boats, a house, and a pole barn. Many a memory has been made there over the years, and the previous owners Thale and Wilma Yettaw did a good job of keeping everything low-key. Dave and Donna decided to keep the name, the sign, and the tradition, and they've invited all the old guests back but are also opening it up to new ones too.
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