If you need a good espresso-based drink recipe, here are few that might keep you up at night.
Starbucks Breakfast Blend
5 September 2006 By 4 Comments
Thanks to our friends, Mark & Ayuna, we start our mornings with Starbucks Breakfast Blend. This is an unusual treat, especially since the coffee pickings (forgive the pun) are slim here in Siberia.
I usually do not go for mild coffee blends, but this one is exceptionally good, and I highly recommend it. I noticed at the Starbucks site that it is the coffee of the week (i.e. the Now Brewing blend). Figures, Mark has recently become a Starbucks insider 
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Blogger’s Fuel
13 April 2006 By 1 Comment
I saw this first on a post at Coffee Swirls and decided to pass it on. All who blog and who are followers of the bean (i.e., coffee lovers) should click here. The first 500 people who register will get to review some free coffee, they only have to agree to post about it. Check it out!
NGOs, Jeremiah and Starbucks Christmas Blend
19 January 2006 By 1 Comment
Maya just left for the women’s home group, and I am supposed to be hanging out with the kids. David and Hannah are playing (together, unbelievably) so I seized the moment to blog a few lines and post a picture. Pirate’s Night begins when this post concludes.
I found out yesterday that the executive branch signed into law the bill restricting NGO’s here. There is a lot of uncertainty with how this will affect us, though we know that it will, and likely in a very negative way. On the heels of learning this little tidbit of potentially depressing news, I read this assuring passage in the World’s all-time best-selling Book.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit. ( Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV)
The trip to the post office today also encouraged us, but in a different way. Our friends in Florida sent us a large bag of Starbucks Christmas Blend coffee (and other thoughtful gifts). If you have tasted this coffee, then you know what a caffeinated encouragement it is!
Finally, for your viewing pleasure, here is a picture of Hannah that I took a week ago, but thought that I lost.
Coffee Weather
8 November 2005 By 1 Comment
The thermometer just outside the kitchen window reads -2C; just warm enough to keep the mud puddles soft. It is 3pm, but an eerie dusk-like light keeps us checking our watches. Large, wet snowflakes fall one moment, rain the next. Blotches of melting snow and pooling slush surround our apartment building, keeping everything inside wet and messy.
All of that means one thing for me: coffee. This is the best weather on earth, so long as one can be inside enjoying a hot cup of well-brewed coffee. It is coffee weather. I love it. It happens here more than any other place where I have lived (usually five days a week). Winter keeps hinting and warning; toying with us, I think. One day, it will arive. We need patience. Now, I’m blogging with Starbucks (actually, some tasty Finnish brand that they sell locally).
The meeting this morning went excellent. Thank you for pr for us in that. We are very thankful for their attitude towards our plans for work here. From start to finish, the atmosphere was pleasant and we were able to clearly share, and they met our ideas with enthusiasm. Many doors, perhaps, opened this morning.
We had such a busy week, and then a busy weekend, that we were looking forward to our day off: Monday, family day. Unfortunately, the long meeting occupied me the whole morning. After David & Hannah wake from their naps, we plan to have some quality family time, albeit indoors. With the added culture meetings, we face another busy week, so we are thankful for the time together with no phones, emails, guests, lessons, etc.
Okay, that is all. I have a post brewing about Augustine of Hippo, so if you like that sort of thing, check back later.
