Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Sometimes the best beer is Budweiser - or Miller Lite if your a Hamster

The past few days I have been breaking my back under the hot sun shoveling dirt and stacking bricks. I'm working on some landscaping. When I moved into my house a few years ago, the front yard was a blank canvas. I could do anything I wanted...from scratch. This year I'm doing something. I'm building a retaining wall that will remain level despite the slope of the earth. So one end is two blocks high, the other end is 7 blocks high. Follow me. I unloaded a 126 blocks (with help) from a truck to my garage. I had a truck load of dirt dumped in the middle of my street. I shoveled and lugged 9 cu. yards of garden mix dirt from my street to the final destination. I had too much dirt. So I found other places for the dirt (prior to having the dirt delivered I removed the top layer of earth and used the sod to build up the slop in the back of my house). Then I started to build the wall. Today I got 1/4 of the wall built.

After I unloaded the bricks, Baker and I had Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It was great. Hit the spot. Wonderful flavor.
Today after working on the wall, I had a Bud. Even better.

If I'm working in the sun doing some good ol' manual labor, I need a Bud. If I'm looking for something to drink after a long day at the office I need an IPA.

Sorry, this was rushed. The wife was telling me that it was her turn to get on the computer.
It made sense in my head. I had it all planned out until she came along.
I'll do better next time.

Do you agree? Bud in the sun?

4 comments:

  1. some kind of mexican beer in the sun...preferably modelo.

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  2. actually it was a boulevard pale ale, but whatever.

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  3. prescription - make it pacifico and i'll empty the cooler with you.

    baker - why you gotta be a hater?

    church - yes. yes. yes. and more yes. i run into a bunch of folks who think that being a beer lover means that you crunch down only on the craft stuff and you always boo on the domestic lagers. not true. being a beer lover means that you've invested your palate into learning the best possible beer for each and every occasion. such as post-yardwork (bud, miller lite, even those michelob ultras with the fruit flavors, PBR, a good blonde ale) or after a long day at the office (pale ale, IPA, possibly a sturdy and spicy hefeweizen if you're hitting the porch). yes'r, such is the love of the brew.

    and i've noticed, the older and older i become, that nothing beats a stupid cold bottle of bud on a hot day. i don't want to curl up with a bud and book or a bud and spook flick, but i do want to quench my sunbeatened brow with it from time to time. praise God for bud. and praise God for saint louis, missouri.

    this was a great post.

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  4. i'm not gonna be picky...make it a pacifico el hamstero!

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