Inaccessible road

Inaccessible road, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

When we last came out here on May 3, the water was much lower, only a small stream flowing, now it's pretty substantial, I have no clue if it will retreat anytime soon.

Compared to May 3: www.flickr.com/photos/codyrl/5687716405

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Enjoying a Burly Wine!

Enjoying a Burly Wine!, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Burly Wine is one of the most sought after products by my favourite brewery, Half Pints. It's pretty hard to find in the first place, and they dont plan on making anymore for atleast a few years. But lucky for me, the local liquor store in my town has several bottles, so I scoop some up whenever possible.

The nickname of this beer is the "Winnipeg winter warmer", as it has 10.5% ABV and even on coldest of -40 Winter nights, warms your body. I decided to pick up a bottle for a birthday present. However, it hadn't been warm for weeks so I postponed drinking this beer until today. It's absolutely beautiful out, the flood waters are starting to go back and it's a great day so why not?

Has a nice cream coloured foamy head, very dark coppery brown hazy appearance, a sweet, somewhat hoppy aroma, very sweet.. caramel taste to it, and itself is a bit creamy in texture to the tongue. Tasty tasty beverage. I know a few friends who aren't a fan of this beer, but I absolutely love it.

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C'est vraiment «la fin du monde!»

C'est vraiment «la fin du monde!», originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Today is April 30 - but living in Western Manitoba you would *NOT* think that. Just going outside, there are two feet of brand new snow in some parts. It feels more like it would be December 30. It's damn bitter cold out. A temperature of -8C with a windchill of -15C. Generally it's +15C right now. Hell, it was that warm yesterday! Frankly, we don't need THIS snow, the fields are over saturated and our neighbours have warned us that we should prepare for a flood, there's some flooding occuring a few kilometres away and it's heading our way. With all this new fresh snow, it's scary shit.

On the upside, it quickly chills my beer!

Lays Kettle Cooked Ketchup Chips

Lays Kettle Cooked Ketchup Chips, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

A few months ago I had the idea that one sort of snack food that would effing rock would be Kettle Cooked ketchup chips, cuz ketchup chips are awesome, and so are kettle cooked chips. I didn't know that Lays would be introducing a new line of Kettle Cooked chips, which included a ketchup variety. I was excited to try them.

I'm not a fan of Lays' chips, their chips are brittle, thin, quantity/not quality and generally boring - especially ketchup chip wise.

I wanted to see what ketchup chips done kettle style would be like.

They're a bit pricy, $3.50 for a 180 gram bag, compared to $2.50 for around 220 gram bag of regular chips.

The chips are thicker than the regular Lays chips, and has a crunch that is nice, like anything kettle cooked. Compared to their regular chips, thankfully they're not brittle and break on you when you bite into it.

The downside - the "ketchup flavour" - Lays has been trying to "improve" the ketchup flavour of their chips for the past 15 years or so, and it's only gone downhill. Their ketchup chips are far from ketchupy. I call the chips "Salt and Vinegar and Sugar and Garlic Chips" as I don't taste ONE hint of ketchup at all.

Dear Lays, completely change your ketchup recipe, it's not ketchupy at all. The flavour is minimal in the kettle chips. But strangely enough, the more I'm eating, the more I'm enjoying it.

Next - I hope to see Old Dutch bring out a ketchup variety of their chips. that thick intoxicating ketchup aroma would be perfect with their kettle cooked line of chips. Old Dutch makes damn good ketchup chips!

dérouler //29 mots sous la pluie

dérouler, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

dérouler - the project finally comes to an end after 29 days. You know those contests like Tim Hortons' Roll up the Rim to Win where you think you're going to win something after drinking 35 coffees, but still haven't won a single cookie? This is one of those times. Or those times where you win 3 coffees in a row. It's one of those sort of days. It's been a long 29 days. When I first started the project, I forgot that there was only 28 days in February this year. I still wanted to do 29 days just for kicks.

Did you enjoy the project? Even though it was mostly about pessimism and thinking too much about the past?

29/29 mots sous la pluie

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