My name is Josh. My family and I live in Wewak, Papua New Guinea where I help maintain three elderly floatplanes. These posts are written from my perspective, the grumpy dad.
Photos
Snader Snaps | Volume 2
Photography is the only method by which this introvert is able to meet new people and be happy about it.
Papua New Guinea
Are They Pirates Or Idiots?
We move into the nicest house within 30,000 square miles, Janice names a baby, and we go on a fishing trip and hook a French sailboat.
Photos
Snader Snaps | Volume 1
My resolution to take more photos of Papua New Guinea starts now.
Papua New Guinea
Living In A Constant State Of Poorly Suppressed Panic
We started our journey at Cleveland airport where we unloaded twelve bags from our trailer onto a trolley. It took two people to push it into the Alaska Air ticketing area where the agents tried their best to politely avoid us.
MMS Aviation
Visiting The Green Hangars On A Tuesday Afternoon
This is a post about how the work in three ordinary looking hangars on an unassuming county airport is helping to change the world.
Florida
A Logical Trip To Florida
It didn't take much imagination to see myself standing beside a smoking van on some interstate, shaking my fist at airplanes flying overhead and thinking, "Why didn't I listen to my wife?"
Being Sick
Puckered Lips & A Quivering Chest
I find myself lying on a bed in the hospital, marveling at all the amenities.
Lectures From My High Horse
Visionary Missionary
Janice accuses me of thinking like a bachelor. I reminisce about a trip I went on while I was one.
Lectures From My High Horse
Thanksgiving & Village Cows
I was a bit worried since we were already trying to be missionaries. We couldn't afford to be farmers too.
Furlough
Stuck In the In-Between
We're finding we got rid of too many things and forgot where we put everything else.
Formative Experiences
Fishing Lessons
I take my kids fishing and wax eloquent about the two main types of misery.
Raising Children
Saying Hello To Postpartum, Diapers, & Sleepless Nights
We welcome a beautiful baby girl into our family! Adi is very happy because, in her words, “Now my children will have an aunt.”