Monastic Coffee Drinkers

"Well, there's more than one way to start a monastic community." - Len Hjalmarson commenting on our tent city

Last night we had the pleasure to sit around on our deck with noted blogging luminaries Len Hjalmarson and Brother Maynard, along with their wives and all of Maynard's family, who showed up a few days ago and pitched a tent in our back yard.

We already have a family of five from the Netherlands and two radical 20-somethings from Alaska living with our own family of five. I say that only to quell any questions of why we would make the Family Maynard camp in our yard instead of inviting them in -- there's literally no room, although mealtimes resemble the mess tent from M*A*S*H, except that the quality and taste of the food would be much higher.

Hence Len's quip about our "monastic community"...

Anyway, we're back from outreach, and just about finished our week of re-entry meetings with YWAM Okanagan, and after tonight:

1. We'll be officially finished the DTS/Outreach, and
2. We'll be celebrating with Guinness

Regular blogging will commence again, and our ecclesiastical anarchist friends from the Netherlands will be joining the Blog Collective once they get back home in a couple of weeks. Resistance is futile.

P.S. This will probably come as no surprise to anyone who knows us, but the amount of St. Arbucks coffee beans that have been ground and consumed in the past couple of days is either impressive or disturbing, depending on your point of view. We should probably call our little monastic community "Fellowship of the Bean".