MaustsOnToast » WV http://maustsontoast.com Drew and Emily Maust Sat, 19 May 2012 20:02:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Weekend in Beckley http://maustsontoast.com/2011/weekend-in-beckley http://maustsontoast.com/2011/weekend-in-beckley#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:14:59 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/?p=6481 Last Sunday I had the honor to preach on the book of Zephaniah (download MP3 of sermon) and present our ministry of Bible translation to family and friends at Jordan Christian Fellowship near Beckley, West Virginia. What a blast we had at the service and hanging out afterward at the Chinese restaurant next door. It was so good to get together with everyone and we thank Jordan for such a warm welcome and for everyone who traveled some distance to be with us that Sunday. Thank you!

Here are pictures from the weekend, including our stay with Chris and Rhea, visiting with Isaac and Kelly and then hanging out with Joey, Karly and Cosby.

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]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2011/weekend-in-beckley/feed 1 Tri-State Travel Weekend http://maustsontoast.com/2011/tri-state-travel-weekend http://maustsontoast.com/2011/tri-state-travel-weekend#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:17:32 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/2011/tri-state-travel-weekend

View more pictures from our trip.

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2011/tri-state-travel-weekend/feed 1 Thanksgiving around the Corner http://maustsontoast.com/2008/thanksgiving-around-the-corner http://maustsontoast.com/2008/thanksgiving-around-the-corner#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:29:08 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/?p=800 Gobble gobble. Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I’m not sure what turkey costs a pound normally, but I’ve seen one grocery bragging it had turkeys for $.68/lb and another touting $.67/lb. Unless you’re planning on buying an automobile sized turkey, a penny a pound shouldn’t really make all that difference.

Anyways, I thought I’d do a quick post filling you in on our upcoming Thanksgiving plans. Although I’ve (Drew) not got class all this coming week, Emily’s still got to go Monday and Tuesday for lectures. Our work is closed Thursday and Friday so we’ll be driving up to Beckley Tuesday night to have Thanksgiving with my parents one last time in West Virginia. We’ll then be back in Wake Forest Friday night-ish. This will be the last Thanksgiving in West Virginia for the Maust family as you probably read previously of their planned move to Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. My mom writes in an email:

I just wanted to update everyone on our moving plans. It seems like the process has been going on forever (since August) but now it’s only 2 weeks away!! The movers will be here Monday Dec 1, it takes 2-3 days for them to pack and load so we will be out on the 3rd. The plan is to close on the house in PA on the 3rd also.

Sounds like it’ll all be happening pretty quick. We’ll be sure to snap some pictures of the Thanksgiving feast while in Beckley.

On a side technical note: I’ve upgraded the MOT server to unlimited disk space and bandwidth for free in exchange for allowing the hosting company to use our site as a tester for an upcoming move and upgrade on they’re planning. So if things may get crazy; but hopefully not too crazy. Just, if you try to access MOT (which I know most of you do daily!) and the server’s down, it’s only a slight malfunction. MOT will still be here and may just be down for the moment. Look on the positive side though: now with unlimited disk space and bandwidth we can blog more, share more videos and pictures, and you can browse more. (Haha. Yeh right! We don’t even come close to using all the disk space and bandwidth we had before unlimited! Oh well.)

Another side note: I’ve set MOT to automatically import posts I do on my personal blog at KataDrew.com to the main page of MOT here. Don’t be confused; read my other blog, too!

That’s all for now. Later!

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/thanksgiving-around-the-corner/feed 0 West Virginia Is Losing Teeth at an Alarming Rate http://maustsontoast.com/2008/west-virginia-is-losing-teeth-at-an-alarming-rate http://maustsontoast.com/2008/west-virginia-is-losing-teeth-at-an-alarming-rate#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:55:48 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/?p=519 Charleston’s WSAZ news has this stereotypical story about West Virginian dental hygiene:

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Researchers found advanced gum disease in 80 percent of adults studied for a major oral health study in Appalachia.

The project by West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh tracked 445 families in both states.

Richard Crout, associate dean for research at WVU’s School of Dentistry, said the study shows rampant periodontal disease in adults, with signs of bone loss in 85 percent of subjects.

Left untreated, periodontitis can lead to bone destruction, tooth loss and even heart disease or stroke.

West Virginia has the highest rate of tooth loss in the country, with a third of residents 35 or younger having lost at least six permanent teeth.

Crout wants more resources for early dental treatment to instill good oral health habits.

Quite comical are the follow-up comments left by disheartened West Virginia natives below the news article at the web site. Don’t miss ‘em!

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/west-virginia-is-losing-teeth-at-an-alarming-rate/feed 0 Goodbye MacTaggart Drive http://maustsontoast.com/2008/goodbye-mactaggart-drive http://maustsontoast.com/2008/goodbye-mactaggart-drive#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:11:21 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/?p=513 20433Last weekend we headed up to Beckley to help my parents rid their soon-to-be-for-sale home of any left over junk of mine and to help them get ready for their move to Pennsylvania any way we could. My dad and I chopped down our old wooden play jungle gym dealy (video of the chainsaw action on the videos page). Justin mowed the grass (video of him acting simple on the videos page). My mom cooked up whatever she could find in the freezer. And Emily, well, she lounged on the back deck sipping ice tea! Though she did eventually pick up a broom and get her sweep on.

The Mausts to Pennsylvania

It’s an odd thing to have both our parents moving at the same time and both farther from us. My parents are migrating north to Pennsylvania where my dad has taken a new and exciting job as a land agent for a gas company. I think they’re really looking forward to the move; well, maybe not the actual move, but the being in a new locale will be a refreshing change. They’re hoping to move over Thanksgiving or Christmas.

The Hayes’s to Namibia

Emily’s parents are also moving as of today, September 5th. They’re migrating south to Namibia where Georgina will serve with Voluntary Service Overseas as a volunteer and will be working with visually and hearing impaired children in Rundu in the north of Namibia. See Georgina’s Got No Hair for more info. Once they’re on the ground, we can expect to find regular updates on Nigel and Georgina’s blog at Hayestack.co.uk.

Pictures and Videos

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As I mentioned above, I have added two new videos to the videos page. Further, I have added a bunch of new pictures, some from our weekend with my parents in Beckley and some from our lovely friend Fontaine’s fiesta mexicana which she kindly hosted at her house. Here’s a foretaste, but as always, the money’s in the photo gallery.

I guess now that our family’s have abandoned us in both northerly and southerly directions, we’ll need people to come visit us in Wake Forest. You might have to entertain yourselves because school’s in full force right now, but, hey, come on down and we’ll work something out. Maybe you can cook and clean for us, eh?

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/goodbye-mactaggart-drive/feed 0 Country Roads Cabins http://maustsontoast.com/2008/country-roads-cabins http://maustsontoast.com/2008/country-roads-cabins#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:58:29 +0000 Drew http://maustsontoast.com/?p=262 19631Two weekends ago my parents gave my siblings and me something we really needed: a vacation. Why go to the beach or on a cruise or out west when you live in West Virginia? Thus, we went to Ansted, WV to the Country Roads Cabins. I hope this post doesn’t end up with a bunch of hits of people looking for the Country Roads Cabins in Ansted, because you’re not going to find the information you’re looking for here (but you might at their website). Anyways, from that weekend I’ve just added 80ish pictures to our photo gallery which presently gives us over 6000! Raise your hand if you’ve looked at all 6000 of ours pictures? (No one raises hand). I reckon I have. I mean I’ve added them all.

We had a great time spending the weekend with Matt & Christina, Justin, Lexie (my mom and dad’s poonum dog) and my parents. Shame you couldn’t have come along with us.

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/country-roads-cabins/feed 2 Congratulations Jason & Suzie Webb! http://maustsontoast.com/2008/congratulations-jason-suzie-webb http://maustsontoast.com/2008/congratulations-jason-suzie-webb#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:52:16 +0000 Drew [G2:18879]

I posted previously about our trip to Huntington, WV, over the weekend of May 23 to celebrate the wedding of our friends Jason and Suzie. Yesterday I finally found the time to resize, rename, and upload our pictures and two videos. There's a video of Emily on the Videos page praying at the opening of the service (you might need to turn up the volume quite a bite to hear her as I was seated in the back). Also, you can find around 140ish new pictures in our photo gallery of the rehearsal, shower, wedding, reception as well as a video of the bride's entrance.

 

Congratulation, Mr. & Mrs. Webb!

]]> I posted previously about our trip to Huntington, WV, over the weekend of May 23 to celebrate the wedding of our friends Jason and Suzie. Yesterday I finally found the time to re-size, rename, and upload our pictures and two videos. There’s a video of Emily on the Videos page praying at the opening of the service (you might need to turn up the volume quite a bit to hear her as I was seated in the back). Also, you can find around 140ish new pictures in our photo gallery of the rehearsal, shower, wedding, reception as well as a video of the bride’s entrance.

Congratulation, Mr. & Mrs. Webb!

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/congratulations-jason-suzie-webb/feed 0 In Huntington with Dress Drama http://maustsontoast.com/2008/in-huntington-with-dress-drama http://maustsontoast.com/2008/in-huntington-with-dress-drama#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Drew We're in Huntington, WV, now for our good friend Suzie's wedding later today. If you'll recall, this is where we first met. In fact, last night we drove past the house where we really first met at a luau party there the first week of school at Marshall back in August of 2003! The set of steps on the front porch where I first sat down to talk to Emily is till there, though I don't remember the neighorhood at the time being so sketchy. I guess I had far greater fish to fry than to be thinking urban gentrification. Anyways, the wedding's this afternoon at 4:00pm. We're planning on taking bunches of pictures and, of course, they'll be posted here with the myriad others.

 

On a more comical note, we left Beckley yestersday where we stayed at my parents' house. With Emily putting on the bridal, lingerie shower this morning for the bride, we've got the car packed down with goodies. Our foremost biggest fear was that we would forget something in Wake Forest. The second biggest fear was that we would forget something in Beckley on the second leg of the trip. Well, while what we feared most didn't come upon us, the secondary fear did. We (I say Emily, Emily says I) forgot in Beckley the dress she was planning to wear to the shower this morning. Oops.

 

My mom calls when we're just pulling into Huntington: "Houston, we've got a problem." Problem indeed. She said, "Don't worry I can probably find someone that's headed that way and can have it up to you by morning." Watch out UPS, Mom's on the prowl. Sure enough, she texted me about 30 minutes later saying she found someone from church that was headed up to Huntington in the morning for work and could take the dress with! Brilliant. It's almost 7:30am now so I've got to run out to a machine shop just outside of Huntington and pick up a frilly dress.

]]> We’re in Huntington, WV, now for our good friend Suzie’s wedding later today. If you’ll recall, this is where we first met. In fact, last night we drove past the house where we really first met at a luau party there the first week of school at Marshall back in August of 2003! The set of steps on the front porch where I first sat down to talk to Emily is till there, though I don’t remember the neighorhood at the time being so sketchy. I guess I had far greater fish to fry than to be thinking urban gentrification. Anyways, the wedding’s this afternoon at 4:00pm. We’re planning on taking bunches of pictures and, of course, they’ll be posted here with the myriad others.

On a more comical note, we left Beckley yestersday where we stayed at my parents’ house. With Emily putting on the bridal, lingerie shower this morning for the bride, we’ve got the car packed down with goodies. Our foremost biggest fear was that we would forget something in Wake Forest. The second biggest fear was that we would forget something in Beckley on the second leg of the trip. Well, while what we feared most didn’t come upon us, the secondary fear did. We (I say Emily, Emily says I) forgot in Beckley the dress she was planning to wear to the shower this morning. Oops.

My mom calls when we’re just pulling into Huntington: “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Problem indeed. She said, “Don’t worry I can probably find someone that’s headed that way and can have it up to you by morning.” Watch out UPS, Mom’s on the prowl. Sure enough, she texted me about 30 minutes later saying she found someone from church that was headed up to Huntington in the morning for work and could take the dress with! Brilliant. It’s almost 7:30am now so I’ve got to run out to a machine shop just outside of Huntington and pick up a frilly dress.

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/in-huntington-with-dress-drama/feed 1 Can Cold Water Clean Dishes? http://maustsontoast.com/2008/can-cold-water-clean-dishes http://maustsontoast.com/2008/can-cold-water-clean-dishes#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Drew This is thanks to Simon who swears that this is not a good representation of West Virginians:

 

John went to visit his 90-year-old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of West Virginia.
After spending a great evening chatting the night away, John's grandfather prepared breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast.

However, John noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking, "Are these plates clean?"

His grandfather replied, "They're as clean as cold water can get em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!"
]]> This is thanks to Simon who swears that this is not a good representation of West Virginians:

John went to visit his 90-year-old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of West Virginia. After spending a great evening chatting the night away, John’s grandfather prepared breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast.

However, John noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking, “Are these plates clean?”

His grandfather replied, “They’re as clean as cold water can get em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!”

For lunch the old man made hamburgers. Again, John was concerned about the plates as his appeared to have tiny specks around the edge that looked like dried egg and asked, “Are you sure these plates are clean?”

Without looking up the old man said, “I told you before, Sonny, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them. Now don’t you fret, I don’t want to hear another word about it!”

Later that afternoon, John was on his way to a nearby town and as he was leaving, his grandfather’s dog started to growl, and wouldn’t let him pass.

John yelled and said, “Grandfather, your dog won’t let me get to my car”.

Without diverting his attention from the football game he was watching on TV, the old man shouted, “COLDWATER, GO LAY DOWN NOW, YAH HERE ME!!!”

]]> http://maustsontoast.com/2008/can-cold-water-clean-dishes/feed 0 Hog Wild at the West Virginia State Fair http://maustsontoast.com/2007/hog-wild-at-the-west-virginia-state-fair http://maustsontoast.com/2007/hog-wild-at-the-west-virginia-state-fair#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:17:46 +0000 Drew [G2:14449 class=left] Emily and I were able to make it up to the West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg to catch great, grimey food, stomach-churning rides and Southern California's own, the Beach Boys.

 

No chicken barn this year, however, for fear of avian flu. (I guess they were too chicken.) Hogs and goats were out in full force (the ones of large girth, as you can see from the picture, were given special permission to ride solo--no one complained). We even bumped into two familiar faces by the bathrooms, Chris & Rhea. Click on the picture to view the rest of the album. 

]]> Emily and I were able to make it up to the West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg to catch great, grimey food, stomach-churning rides and Southern California’s own, the Beach Boys.

No chicken barn this year, however, for fear of avian flu. (I guess they were too chicken.) Hogs and goats were out in full force (the ones of large girth, as you can see from the picture, were given special permission to ride solo–no one complained). We even bumped into two familiar faces by the bathrooms, Chris & Rhea.

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