After just sitting around for a week I’ve come back and really gotten into it. What has really made this great is the time I’ve been spending with my daughter. My oldest is starting to have sleep problems. She comes by it honest, both her mom and I have trouble sleeping. Really, who doesn’t these days? She is also dealing with the issues of growing up. She has been really frustrated, so in an attempt to circumvent some of that frustration we have been drawing and talking.     She has really started opening up to me and also working through some of her feelings and frustrations. Our drawing sessions are always low-key and we avoid screens. We stream some lo-fi beats and draw. I’ve been pushing her on her drawings and it has been paying off. She just did a drawing last night that she thought she was done with after about 15 minutes. I suggested...

  My wife grew up on pot roasts and casseroles. I grew up on fried chicken and homemade mac ‘n cheese. I still am not a fan of pot roasts. I think they turn out dry and bland, but in an attempt to be a good husband I decided I would try to get excited about beef roasts. I spent the last year working on making a beef roast that I wouldn’t mind eating. I started the process by picking out a cut of meat that was affordable and commonly available. Something that I could experiment with but was consistent enough in its cut that I could make tweaks to my recipe and be able to tell a difference. After a few trips to the store I settled on an Eye of Round. The store I frequent has nearly the same cut every week. Same size and the same shape. So I settled on 2.5 lb hunk of meat.     I then went about searching different methods for prep and settled on tying the roast...

  I can’t lie, I have not been very productive this week. So many things in the air but the last two nights I just haven’t had the will to do any work. I haven’t been at a total standstill but close. Here is some progress on the orchid…     I’m starting to like the direction this is going. The extra time and effort is really starting to pay off. I think I might make some prints on wood of this after it is done. I also messed around with this idea a little more…     This was a little less successful. Some has to do with the way the markers lay on the substrate, some of it was the design not really working. The first drafts were more simple and clean and worked much better. My daughter colored one too but she was really unhappy with how the marker looked too and asked me not to post it. She chose a really nice color scheme...