Sunday, March 15, 2009
Busy is an understatement. Work is crazy as always, yet good progress is being made so I can't complain. At home I have too much freelance and I've been lacking the ability to power through a day of work and sit down for another stretch at the home computer... That will need to change if I want to have free time, or pick the squeege back up and get my screen print on!
Friday was a photo opening at "The Artery". It was skate photos and there were some classics from Brittain and Knights, weird the rush of memories some of those shots brought back. I was suprised by how packed the place was, all the usual notable skaters. The show made me happy we have so many skateparks - if the show was a skatepark I would have kept driving to another park that was less crowded.
A few weeks back I got a text from my brother-in-law who has been living in Brasil for the past few years. He found a recipe for pacoca. During one of our visits I discovered a peanut candy called pacoca. It isn't complicated - ground up peanuts, sugar, salt all held together with the natural peanut oils. It is sweet, peanut-ty and crumbly. Armed with a recipe on my phone I gave it a shot. I'm 90% there, I need to better figure out the salt/sugar ratio and get some bigger chunks of peanut mixed in somehow. Currently it is closer to the texture of halva... but with peanuts. Close, so close. A couple more pounds of peanuts and I'll have it perfected - perfect pacoca! MMMMM!
In between rain showers we welded cross braces into our raised beds and added an angle iron lip to all the beds so they don't seem so sharp. We still need to hit the corners with a grinder to soften them a touch. We were laughing because it is so obvious we don't have kids - we built giant sharp steel objects that we put all over the back yard... "don't push your brother near the garden..."Lastly, 7:30pm and it is still light out!
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