"Feed 'em pizza and beer and let them get the work done."

Ah, Sins, the problem is that my wife and I can't just let folks eat frozen pizza and swill Budweiser. Nope. Not in a place where I can get things like semi-ready pizza (Poppa Murphy's) or something like Annies (local -- how about dried tomato, fresh basil, roasted garlic, roasted sweet peppers and chicken sound?). As for beer -- I was past the beer coolers today: Fat Tire. Alaska Amber. Wasatch. Provo Girl. Polygamy Porter. Black Butte. Fire House 7. Sierra. Wienhardt. Others too numerous to mention.

You see, what I haven't mentioned and am in fact just starting to realize is that here we can get the BEST of Seattle, Portland, Denver, California, Mexico, Canada. For instance, you want coffee? -- just name your poison! Kenya AA, Blue Mountain, pure Kona, Folgers....

Hell, at the store today (Fred Meyer's, and Krogers hasn't completely ruined it yet) I bought some linguisa. This doesn't mean much if you're from Fall River, Mass. or the Cape Verde Islands or Portugal. But -- and understand this! -- I'm in Pocatello, Idaho, a town of about 50,000 people, and I was able to purchase packages of a sausage most folks have never heard of! The beers listed above are just a bare scratching of the surface. Yeah, I haven't yet found Creative Grains' Toasted Pecan Grains, but there's fresh hummus in the stores.

But heck, if anyone wants to come by AFTER we have moved into the house -- well, bring your instrument(s). I'll buy Budweiser just for you, but you'll have to give me notice so I can buy it (and clean up the place a little).