You would think it to be a rather simple thing, an email here, a phone call there, and perhaps a visit. Unfortunately, we find it difficult to maintain the lines of communication that keep us all in touch. Thankfully, there is a slew of technological options to assist in this. For example, we have Twitter for micro-blogging (or mini-updates) throughout a given day, then we have the H57 Blog for more structured updates. The H57 Photo Album attempts to capture and archive those significant (and perhaps not so significant) events that occur in our lives. We can all be found on Facebook in some form...
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The Roman Road is a collection of verses in Paul's Epistle to the Romans that offers a clear and structured path to Jesus Christ. Although many people believe they will go to heaven because they have lived a good life, done charity work, been baptized as a child, attended church, or treated others fairly, the Bible declares that none of us can live up to God's standards of righteousness. Therefore, we need a road to God that doesn't rely on anything we do, but rather, relies on the gift of His grace alone.
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Yet another family favorite! I can typically make this in the afternoon, just get started on them at lunch and have fresh rolls for dinner! They are also very easy.
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Jacob “Cobbs” Bishop was over on Saturday to do some Christmas baking with us. We decided to make Gingerbread, and I determined that I would begin to put my favorite recipes on the website. This serves two purposes, one – I can get back to my recipes easily from anywhere and two – other folks can peak at the recipes that our family most enjoys. You will want to note that this isn’t a recipe for Gingerbread Cookies – we really are making bread. The final result will look like something between a cake and brownie – if you did it right!
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One year ago, today (Dec 17th), our family of four exploded into a family of seven. In one fell swoop, we added three additional young ones to the fold. I became a father of five Tracey became a mother of five Samantha suddenly had two younger sisters and brothers Bethany suddenly had two younger sisters and brothers The F150 turned into an E350 All the bedrooms were populated The brief moment of more toilets than necessary returned to dreamland
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This tool is awesome! Well, for me anyway!
As anyone who is familiar with the Hines57 sites will realize, we recently made a massive change to not only the look and feel, but also the underlying engine(s) and hosting. Part of this change was moving to Wordpress for this blog.
I enjoy writing, and blogging comes somewhat natural to me, but the niceties of MS Office have ruined me. That is, I like cut and paste, I want images in my content and I want them in a certain place, the whitespace needs to make me happy.
Typically, this is somewhat difficult to do given a web interface, a text box,...
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Tommy found this on the internet and forwarded it to me … I thought it was cute and I’m sharing it with you! See how I keep giving? Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: 1. The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.2. The fifth would pay $1.3. The sixth would pay $3.4. The seventh would pay $7.5. The eighth would pay $12.6. The ninth would pay $18.7. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every...
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We have been struggling against complacency for some time now in an attempt to move from Dreamhost to Mosso (thanks to Joseph Szobody) and are finally making some progress. You will notice that we have now added this site (blog.hines57.com) to Mosso as well as our Photo Album (photos.hines57.com) which means we have two out of three up (we still need to get the wiki set up) and running.
We are happy with the green look and feel, so we will be sticking with that for some time to come. Bear with us while we continue to get our act together!
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