Chore Day, Nov 23, 2019 - Baking Day

Today I baked 32 v-dog bean & sweet potato patties for my furry brethren, 8 lentil burgers for the humans, 30 delicious chocolate-oatmeal cookies, a dozen muffins, and two quarts of vegetable broth. As always, everything was WFPB. That’s Whole Food, Plant Based.

To wind down from a busy day in my tiny kitchen, I sketched this anonymous person. I was inspired by the cover of Leonard Koren’s Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean?: Ten Definitions. The background music for this mood piece was Take Five, from Dave Brubeck’s Take Five album. Desmond wrote this famous song, not Dave Brubeck. All in all, it was a great day.

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Staring at the sun

Another chore day, with a twist

My usual Saturday chore is to do the laundry, but today I added one more task: cooking up some food for my dogs. I’ve decided to feed them a plant-based diet based on the Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats. Since I’ve adopted a plant-based diet for myself, I wanted to offer my furry children the same healthy food. So, I spent the morning cooking up some black bean and sweet potato “burgers.” The boys loved them. I had one for lunch myself. A good time was had by all.

Lately I’ve been practicing painting using Artrage. I’ll be using Artrage for my next project. It’s going to be called Jimmy and Buddy Go to Mexico.

As for the children’s book topic… I spent a few hours working in inDesign adjusting all of the images so that they bled to the edges of the frame.