Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company

If you're in Carleton County, New Brunswick, you definitely know about the Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company. If you're in the rest of NB, you've probably seen some of their chips at the grocery store. If you're in Nova Scotia, like me, or anywhere else, you (gasp!) may have never enjoyed these chips. Or should I say, heavenly-morsels-of-absolutely-perfect-potato-chippiness. If we buy chips, which doesn't happen too often, we usually buy Kettle Chips, which are delicious, too. But Covered Bridge chips are a teeny bit thinner and lighter, but still significantly thicker than the cheapy ones. Which in my book, makes them perfect.
While we were in Carleton County, visiting some of Adam's family, we happened to be driving by the factory, where they have free tours. I have a thing for factories and finding out how things are made, so I was thrilled when we stopped. Unfortunately, there were no chips being made that day, but we still got to see where the magic happens. Very cool.
The bags! All rolled up on... roller things!
And some of the other equipment. I'm envisioning crispy, hot, greasy chips jostling happily along that chute. Mmmmmm.
They also have a little store with a huge selection of seasonings to choose from, and some locally made goodies completely unrelated to chips.

So. We're home again, and the lawn is mowed, and I have some new flowers planted. The veggies are coming along nicely, and we're looking forward to a nice sunny weekend.

Hope you're having a lovely week!

jones gallery

Yesterday afternoon, Adam and I went to meet Sarah Jones, of Jones Gallery. Adam has been a great admirer of her work, which depicts Saint John cityscapes in beautiful, very textured paintings and mixed media pieces. She also happens to be a lovely person, and her space is fantastic. I thoroughly appreciate her well thought out and designed signage, clean gallery / working space, and those gorgeous doors.

Sorry - you can't buy those three paintings hanging vertically next to Sarah; we bought them. I think we'll be buying more in the future, too. The giant one on the left in the photo below wants to live at our house, but we didn't quite have that much money hanging around yesterday. Maybe when we win the lottery.
Definitely check out the Jones Gallery site, and if you're in Saint John, pop by 122 Germain Street. Sarah's also on Twitter. Thanks for the lovely visit, Sarah, and for humouring my picture-taking.

Incidentally, these photos were taken on Adam's iPhone. Handy thing, that.

the birthday

The birthday boy on his third birthday. Thanks for the picture, Adam! I bought the same sweater and forgot it at home, so Adam and I were out picking up another one at 10pm the night before the big day. Definitely worth it.
And here's the cake that my mother-in-law worked on for a long time; inspired by this one. We picked the Prius to remind P of you, Auntie Marla! Phillip loved it, and had a lovely birthday.P.S. Dear Thomas,
Thank you so much for sleeping through the night for the first time on Wednesday. And thank you for eating so quickly that I thought that you slept through again last night and needed Dadoo to remind me that you woke up.

three

Happy 3rd birthday to my sweet, sweet Phillip. We celebrated (in part) by taking a nap together this afternoon. Phillip also rode on a city bus for the first time this morning (VERY exciting, as we don't have any in Yarmouth - that's he and Adam waiting for the bus to pick them up), and we had a delicious breakfast at Cora's. I'll have more pictures of the cake and such soon!