beer on the bookshelf

Ever since our trip to the Rogue Brewery in January and the magical epiphany that occurred while drinking the sample of Dirtoir Black Lager, M and I have been enthusiastically drinking dark beer. This is a relatively new experience for me, considering how unenthusiastically I regarded beer before. Anyhow, one of our favorite haunts in Spokane, the Main Market Co-op, happens to stock all kinds of delicious dark beers (and not so dark beers) so every time we go we make it a point to try something new. Some of our favorites so far have been Old Rasputin (left) and the Trois Pistoles and La Fin Du Monde by Unibroue (right).

When we left the Brewery we brought home a growler full of the McRogue Scotch Ale. This one is rather difficult to track down if you're looking to purchase a bottle considering they're only selling it in the 7oz XS bottles, and not a ton of grocery stores cater to novelty brews. However, last weekend M and I went down to Pullman and made a detour to the Moscow Co-op where we spotted (and purchased) the LAST BOTTLE on the shelf. Our team.

lions and tigers and SNOW

Just a few days ago the weather was amazing, or at any rate amazing for February. The sun was out, it was relatively warm, I was getting excited to ride my bike again...but I made the mistake of closing my eyes to enjoy the sunshine for just a second and when I opened them the world looked much different.

It looked like this:

We got hit by about 8 inches of snow in one night, supposedly with more to come. It's a strange snow, too. I tried to make a snowball while M shoveled out his car but the snow wouldn't pack at all and my snowball disintegrated into a snow flurry mid flight. 

We've ventured out on the streets a bit, once you get outside of our neighborhood the streets are all right, but I've observed a much different side of Spokane since the snow fell. Namely (I'm going to generalize) Spokane drivers are CRAZY. They drive crazy fast and just...crazy, regardless of road conditions.