Pottery Chile Sketches Music

 We made it on Saturday for green chile, lunch at Jimmy John's, the Empty Bowl and a long day.

The University of New Mexico Alumni had a New Mexico green chile sale for charity.  Pick up was at a park.  We timed it to get there, pick up the chile and then have a sandwich at Jimmy John's before the Empty Bowl event.  

We got the chile and iced it down.  Jimmy John's has the best bread for our taste.  I can't eat the bread anymore so I have a lettuce wrap.  Pretty good as "sandwiches" go now. 

The Empty Bowl show was super.  You get a bowl with your ticket and they have auction items.  Libby Koch was the first performer.  She is so personable and has the most beautiful voice and writes great songs.  Hardened and Tempered followed with their ballads of hard and good times.  Suzanna Choffel closed the music with her interesting voice and good songs.  We thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.  We got to see some friends including Spring and Ellie.  We know Spring via Joanna and music and Ellie via Joanna and baseball and music, too.

I did some quick horrible sketches but I will post them just 'cause.  Hard to sketch at concerts for me.  You will see these don't look much like the singers when you see their pages.  I also didn't take photos ???  

Scavenger Hunt from Life 80
https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-80-aug-14-22.5870/

#14 free space - the singers
#15 curtain - sub the stained glass window behind the singers, the windows were beautiful and so many colors.  Yellow and purple were dominant.

I picked this flat bowl for soup, it is heavier than the plate!  Made by SAG on the bottom.  We have many bowls so I chose the little pitcher for painting or syrup when we have pancakes or waffles.  I usually make syrup.  The plate was so pretty, it was made by Sunset Canyon Pottery.  I "won" it in the auction.   I think they help with the firing of the bowls made by other artists.  The pitcher didn't have any signature.  All three pieces go well together which I hadn't noticed.  Spring is very instrumental in getting the Empty Bowl together.  She made a plate in a fish shape that said "Just for the halibut".  I say that a lot.  It had lots of bids so I just bid on the round plate.  

The Empty Bowl Summer Concert was held at Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 2200 Justin Lane, Austin, TX 78757.  They donate the space, very gracious and helpful.

Libby Koch  https://www.libbykoch.com/

Hardened and Tempered  https://www.hardenedandtempered.com/

Suzanna Choffel  http://suzannachoffel.com/music

We left the house about 1015 am and got back about 630 so no more activity.

Sunday morning we got up and peeled and cleaned the chile.  The Alumni bought the chile through the Central Market and it was roasted that morning.  They overdid the chile a bit and the skin was pretty carbonized.  We mostly just wiped the burned peel off and took out the seeds.  Then I had to wash it to get more of the black off.  Then I stopped and we had breakfast/brunch with the green chile, eggs, sausage, potatoes and homemade tortillas for Gene and HEB Homestyle corn tortillas for me.  Yummy.

I chopped the chile for brunch in the kitchen machine, so I just went ahead and chopped the rest and bagged it and put it in the freezer.  We bought 10 pounds of hot and 10 pounds of mild.  They did not offer medium.  I mixed the hot and mild as I packed it.  At the end I had 3 packs of hot left .. guess I didn't guess too well in the mixed ones.  It is nice to have frozen green chile compared to eating the green chile in the jars.  Maybe the hard work makes it taste better.  It was several hours peeling, cleaning and bagging.  Whew!!

Gene peeling chile on the porch and the finished product!