I’ve taken a few runs at making hot sauce. After many failed attempts I finally tried making a fermented pepper hot sauce. Most hot sauces are made from fermented peppers including Tabasco. I have read about how to do it and it seems pretty easy but there is something about the word “fermented” that I find intimidating. I was given about about 2 lbs of Hatch Peppers last year so I thought I’d finally try fermenting some peppers. I prepared them, made a brine, bought some jars and hoped for the best. Several months later I found myself alone for a few hours so I decided to pull those peppers and make up a sauce. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is good, I would say that it was a success overall. The sauces I’ve tried to make in the past were always too tangy or had too strong of a flavor but this was more mellow and even.  ...

  Still in series. Still in a bit of a funk. I do have to say, I have really been productive. Maybe that’s part of my problem? I am going to disconnect a little more from social media. I don’t install facebook or twitter on my phone in an attempt to limit my usage but I just end up using the browser to check it. I often get sucked into a youtube hole just watching video after stupid video until I eventually pass out. So this drawing is a bit more specific. I’ve been taking more reference pictures and going for longer walks. This one is based on a picture I took while on a walk in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. It is a fairly small town that does not live up to its name. I was really excited the first time I visited because I love waterfalls. There is a dam. No waterfalls. We went on a vacation once as a kid where we just went to a bunch of state and national parks...

  My cacti are staring to come along. I’ve started to figure out what I’m going to do with them and I have already started “planting” a few. I’m making public art. Some might call it trash, and that is probably more on the nose, but I’m moving forward anyway. I did create a page to explain the project and I’ve put a QR code linked to the page on the inside of the cacti. Who knows if this will even be noticed, I guess we’ll see. I don’t know if it is because I just finished watching Avatar the Last Airbender with my daughter, but I’ve decided to make these elemental themed. The first one is water and now I am working on fire…     I don’t quite have the colors right yet but that is the point of prototypes. This one is a little too Iron Man-esque for my liking right now but for a rough draft I think it...