Category: Matt’s Mishaps

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  What is Your Choice?  – Dust, Tar or Paint Gravel roads are a great invention!  Gravel roads are cheaper to build and maintain.  In Elkhart County, Indiana, local officials…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  Rooster, Not a Bat If you are up and about in the dark well before sunrise, stop by Phil’s One Stop Marathon Gas Station in Grabill, Indiana.  You…

Matt’s Mishaps

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  Watch Where You Drop Middle America’s historic marsh has left us with relatively flat and productive soil in many places.  It would be a dream combination for many…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt    Strange Substitutes Have you tried a strange substitute for an ingredient in a favorite dish?  I think foodies call it “fusion” when you combine different styles of…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” —Matt  Eating Volcano Dogs Northern Ohio and Indiana is pleasantly void of nearly any geographic features that would inhibit the usability of the land – no mountains nor, especially, volcanos.…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  PUSHING A LITTLE FRENCHIE I have learned, if push-starting a car, pray it be a small one!   I grew up like most people watching movies and TV…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” — Matt  Mind the Mine Field Have you been on a military base before?  When we first moved overseas, security was thankfully not an issue for American bases.  We could…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” —Matt  Reason into conclusions My family had returned back overseas after nearly a year of furlough in small-town America – it was an “urban detox” for us after living in a…

Matt’S Mishaps

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  The famous H. Souder & Sons General Store on Main Street in downtown Grabill, Indiana, will be the primary distributor of the book.  Your purchase of the book will…

Matt’s Mishaps

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  Yoder Loader Van We have a friend who sells vehicles in small-town America and who found us something to drive when back in the States.  Our travels always…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  Who is the bigger baby? Preparing for the arrival of our baby was a big deal for me as a soon-to-be-father.  The process was more perplexing since that delivery…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  When the horse is dead, dismount Do you love your pets?  My grandpa farmed and loved his shire work horses like pets.  He farmed with no cab Ford…

MATT’S MISHAPS

“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt  TRYING NEW FOODS My world was pretty small growing up in small-town middle America, which was often a good thing!  I took my first plane ride when I was…