 Hey guys, good morning. It's March 8th. March 8th? Yeah, March 8th. One of my pajamas. We're taking it slow and easy today. And going out, we don't have anything to do, which is probably good because Oregon declared a state of emergency this morning because of the COVID-19 virus. So that's a thing. I interfered and don't like leaving the house and have no problem with doing things via ordering online. So this morning, my knee is still sore. I don't know if I just did too much on it too many days in a row or I'm just having a bad time. Full moon I think is tomorrow. I did twist it a little bit. That didn't make it feel any better, but anyway, it's Sunday. Go! We're out getting some fresh air, staying a few feet from people. Not that there's that many out. We're in the tennis court right now with crazy pants. She was just doing zoomies around the tennis court. Of course, as soon as I got the camera on, she stopped doing them, but you know, yeah. Anyway, I'll be back. It's Monday, morning, March 9th. It's just after 10 a.m. sometime. I don't know exactly. Anyway, I've got it at the order. I've got to walk over to the mailbox. I've already done the typing for the week. I rescheduled my physical therapy appointment this morning because I twisted my knee a little bit over the weekend and I did a lot of walking on it, which I think I've mentioned already, but anyway, it's feeling better today, but I thought I'd give it one more day before I go have them poke at it. So I'll go tomorrow. I am not going out any more than I have to right now because of the virus thing, so that's fine. I'm also getting my first ever delivery of groceries later today, which I've never done before, but again, I don't want to go out more than necessary. So yeah, I'll let you know how that goes. I've never done this delivery grocery delivery thing before, so I have no idea what to expect. All right, that's it for the moment. It's Monday. Rebecca and I, for quite a few weeks now, have been hearing this sort of a jackhammering sound outside. Turns out it might be woodpeckers in the forest next door. I don't see them on the house anywhere, so I don't think they're actually on the building. And it doesn't really feel like they're on the building, but they might be on one of the trees next door. So I emailed the school who owns the forest. And while Rebecca went to the gym, I'm giving my knee a break because it is pretty sore. It's actually feeling better today, but it's been pretty sore the last couple days, and I rescheduled my physical therapy for tomorrow because I just wasn't feeling up to going with it, but it's feeling pretty good right now. So I'm trying to keep it that way so I can go to therapy tomorrow. I forgot to take the audio out of one of the movies. One of the videos I'm uploading for Patreon right now, so I got a copyright thing. It's not a bad thing. It's just like, hey, we're going to get the money off your video because you have our music in there. So yeah, so I went and took the music out. I forgot to take the audio out, so that's a problem. Anyway, it happens every now and then that I forget, but it's not too common. Anyway, it's fixing right now and the rest of the videos are loading. There's a bunch of stuff for the patrons over on Patreon and then of course the regular vlog and the chronic pain vlog and all of that stuff. So you here on YouTube are going to get a little bit of the Patreon stuff, but if you want to see the full extended video of me working on a couple projects, you have to be over at Patreon. Sorry. Anyway, I need to go finish watching a news conference and then I'm going to cook dinner. Kind of my job tonight where I guess we're having bratwurst and noodles and prop. I'm going to make something green, so broccoli or something because I can't just have meat and starch. It doesn't work for me. All right, I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Tuesday morning and just after nine o'clock, obviously we're in the car and I'm on my way to physical therapy. Alrighty, so we're out of physical therapy and of course my knee felt okay when I was going in. Now it hurts. I skipped ice again. I'm going to go home and ice it when I get home while I'm eating lunch. We're going to go check the P.O. box and I'll be back. I sat on camera and I don't remember if I did or not. My husband called, texted me from work last night that he was coming home soon and FYI he had a meeting with his boss and Lamb Worldwide has told all companies or all employees who don't need to physically be on site, i.e. work mostly in an office on a computer to work from home going forward for their foreseeable future. They don't have anybody with COVID-19 that they know of in the company worldwide but they're just being proactive about trying to do their part to prevent the spread of the disease. My daughter already works from home. She's living with us. Her fiance is two, is living with us too and he as of yet is not working at home but I would anticipate by week's end that he's probably working at home. It's a good thing I have my own private space and headphones. That's all I gotta say. All right, that's it. I'm going to check the P.O. box. I'll be back. So as you just saw, Bambi was outside and kept setting the ring off so I realized the bowls were probably empty and came down to give them some food. Good morning everybody. It is Wednesday morning, March 11th I think. Oh yeah, they're coming right back. Hold on. Hold the phone. Literally just like 30 seconds ago put the food down when they're back. They didn't go far. They're not really scared of me. Anyway, the birds are chirping and the air is cool but not cold. It's a beautiful day out. Hopefully we'll get to go walking a little bit later. COVID-19 news is, you know, getting worse by the day but it's got to get worse before it gets better, right? Anyway, chatting with friends. We're going to take some projects that are actually downstairs to work on them while we're talking and I have some projects upstairs I want to work on too but I needed to stop and feed Bambi and stop drinking coffee. I'm just drinking way too much coffee lately. So yeah, I think it's going to be a quiet Wednesday at home and it's all good. My knee's feeling okay. It's a little sore still but it's better. It's improving every day. My stress level of course is not right now because hello COVID-19. So anyway, do you hear the bullfrog? I think it's spring. What do you think? Morning guys. I think it's technically still morning because it's not lunch yet but it's late. I think it's after 11 or about 11 somewhere anyway. It's Thursday, March. Yeah, it must be because tomorrow's Friday the 13th. Lots happened in the last 24 hours, hasn't it? We won't go into the whole virus thing but yeah, you all probably watch the news. I just got done having a disagreement with a friend who still thinks it's a bad flu and some of you might do too and that's fine. We can just agree to disagree. There you go. Anyway, I am going to feed some old bread to the squirrels and I'm going to feed Bambi. I've been working on new merch on Teespring and then after lunch I'm going to work on some watercoloring and I guess I should start laundry and do the dishes at some point, maybe. All right, I'll be back. I just did my due diligence, stopping at a red light before I made a right turn. The guy behind me wasn't having that and he honked at me. He's right behind me right now. He's not going to be happy that I'm driving this speed limit but you know, it's Friday the 13th. What do you expect? Anyway, I am headed out to go to physical therapy this morning. Of course taking all precautions. I have noticed with this whole washing our hands all the time thing, not that it didn't happen before because I've always, I've been a germaphobe so I wash my hands a lot but one thing that I know I've mentioned before in a episode of Straight Talk here on YouTube, I'll link it below, dry skin issues, post-menopause but especially when I'm washing my hands a lot or an excessive amount of times which I probably am right now but you can never have it be too cautious, right? Anyway, my hands, they're so dry. I'm using so much lotion all the time on my hands anyway and now especially, I think I'm going to have to break out the aquifer. There's someone in the cabinet in the bathroom. If you guys have a lotion that you really find effective for dry skin, especially on your hands, let me know because yeah, that's a thing. Anyway, three of the four of us are working at home now. Polyas' company and school are not really being mindful of the recommended social distancing and having people work from home at least not yet but I would anticipate that happening soon so we're making plans to set up a fourth office space in the house somewhere where he can quietly and comfortably work when that time comes in privacy with the door closed. So yeah, it's all a thing, right? It's our new reality at least for the foreseeable future. Anyway, I just feel bad for the kids because they're supposed to get married in October. They have all these plans over the summer and of course a honeymoon after the wedding and yeah, I don't know what goes right. All right, I'm going to get myself to physical therapy and back because today we're going to be cleaning out the art room closet which I haven't done really since we moved in. I just unpacked things into the closet and left it. I set up the rest of the room in a way that I love but the closet has been driving me crazy since we moved in 18 months ago and so yeah, we're going to be working on that this weekend so I'll film some before you and talk about my reasoning behind what I'm doing. All right, I'll be back. I'm going to head over to physical therapy and then I'm going to go home and work on my art closet, do some art, keep myself busy. How are you keeping yourself from getting completely stressed out right now in this crazy time with whatever chronic health issues you have on top of the coronavirus and everything else that's going on? So tips and tricks, I'd love to hear them. Leave something in the comments below or over in the art group, art through play through chronic pain, I'd love to know. All right. In the midst of all this coronavirus stress, craziness, Friday the 13th, it's snowing. It's not really sticking, at least not yet, but it's cold enough that I bet you it will. Yay! Woohoo! Finally some good news, right? So that footage you just saw was me taking all the drawers out of my closet. Here's a before picture of both sides of the closet. I didn't really do too much to the other side. I've done a little bit, but here's the before pictures and then here's the after. So what I discovered after moving and being in this art room for over a year is that, oh my, let me switch hands, is that the drawers were great in old space, but they don't really work here and they were too frustrating to get things out of in the closet. Really prefer shelves and bins. It's way easier to get to things and I can see what I have better. Less time to just keep and acquire things I don't really need because the shelves take up more space, allows for less stuff. The drawers were very compact and I could have filled the closet with drawers and kept a lot of stuff. No, just no. So anyway, that's what I did today. I do have three of the drawer units. I'm going to donate one, two, three, four, four units, small ones and I'm keeping the two big ones and then a couple of the small ones that I'll reuse in other parts of the house after the kids move out. So it's all good. All right, I'll be back. All right, so it is late. I don't know what time it is. 9.15. 9.15. There you go. Only 9.15 or 10.15? No, 10 must be 10.15. 10.15. 10.15. Anyway, we are headed home from a late night of grocery shopping and I didn't take any pictures always there but I'm going to get some from my son-in-law and put those here somewhere. He went to a different Fred Meyer than the one we did but the one we just left looked the same way. Literally people are buying, clearing the shelves, buying out everything. They're not cutting off our food supply people and they're not cutting off our toilet paper supply. Toilet paper is made here in North America. Like honestly, it's crazy. We didn't go crazy stocking up but we didn't want to deal with the crowds and craziness over the weekend so we went late tonight and bought a few things that we needed or wanted and there's no canned goods, no soup, no pasta, no ramen, no bread of any kind, plenty of alcohol, a lot of wine. Not that they sell hard liquor at the grocery stores in Oregon but they had a lot of wine and beer and soft drinks but no chicken, no chicken, like not a single piece of chicken and the rest of the meat cases were like half empty. The produce department was almost completely empty. There was broccoli. We have broccoli at home already and they had asparagus which I got which we love and but there was no tomatoes, there was no fruits, no vegetables, no string beans, nothing, no lettuce. Y'all are nuts. Let me see what else was there. No hand sanitizer, no cleansers, no toilet paper. The toilet paper was like completely the whole aisle empty. 20 feet of aisle on both sides. Oh no paper towels either because I think they were on that same aisle. The whole thing was empty. It was crazy. So anyway, the stories you're seeing on the internet are true, the shelves are empty, they are restocking and but as soon as they restock it gets cleared out again because y'all are crazy, they're not going to cut off our supply of food and toilet paper, they're not going to cut off your water, you know, calm down. Yes, you should have backup emergency supplies. Most places in the United States have some kind of natural disaster you should be prepared for. If you don't know what that is, contact City Hall or some other government agency, I'm sure they can help you out and figure it out for you. We're on the West Coast so I always have a month's of toilet paper at the house and things like that, plenty of food because we could have an earthquake anytime and be cut off. We also always have waste cook said food other than using the utilities because again, we're an earthquake country but this is ridiculous people, just calm down. I know I'm saying that and I'm like completely stressed out but don't be me. At least I'm not clearing the shelves at the store. That's insane. That's it for now, we'll be back. It's so pretty. I wanted to film a little bit this morning. Good morning. It is Saturday morning, March 14th. I don't know what time it is. It's before lunch though, 10 o'clock or so. It has snowed last night. It's started to melt and then it started to snow again. Huge giant flakes if you can't tell. Last night Bob and I tried to go to Fred Meyer which is owned by Kroger. We wanted to try to pick up a few things for the week so we don't have to worry about it until at least for a week and to be in reality we can go two weeks or more but when we can we're going to try to go to the store anyway, pick up some favorite things we run out of but to be honest Bob wanted potato chips. So my future son-in-law stopped at a different Fred Meyer than the one we went to on his way home from work. He did get potato chips but they didn't have anything else as well. I understand everyone's panicking. I'm right there with you. I'm worried about the disease and worried about the effects on my family and our society and I understand wanting to have enough supplies to get you through two weeks to a month. There is no reason on the planet you need to buy a palette of toilet paper or a palette of bottled water. They're not going to shut off our water. They're not going to close the grocery stores. You're going to still be able to get food. Calm just calm down just a little bit. I understand being concerned believe me I'm right there with you. I've vlogged about it enough y'all should know that by now. I want to be informed. I want to be prepared but I don't need to hoard so much that my neighbors can't get what they need and that's really what's going on right now and that's not cool. So anyway okay people it is that says 1.46 so it's 2.46 Saturday afternoon we've been to three different stores this morning and two donation places we got rid of a carload of donations no we are not letting the virus stop us from donating items we no longer need to charity we're not letting that stop us so we did our due diligence and we went to three different stores and found some things like pain medication and things that we might need should we get stuck in and somebody does get a fever whether from the virus or from a cold or the flu or whatever um and a couple other things in that regard first aid type things and hygiene type things that we needed we're always on the lookout out every time we go out for three things tissues um clorics wipes and toilet paper tissues right now we don't need we have a lot of tissues at home um I got them last week I got some more and but clorics wipes we don't really need either but that's going to be a thing that we're going to just look for going forward and if we had seen them we would have bought some we didn't we did score one 12 pack of toilet paper so I think it's Charmin or something but that's okay it'll do the job oh caught now well I like caught now I like Costco is better but literally literally you can't get into Costco there parking lot from what we can see because it's right here is full um we heard from another lady in line because of course I'm being my normal friendly chatty self yes I'm an introvert but I can fake it well I like to chat what did you just do yeah I like to chat with people and I like to be nice I don't see the point in being anything else anyway she was saying if you try to get into Costco they're limiting the people that go into 600 people and you can't go in unless somebody comes out like how is that even a thing that they have to limit how many go in like even at Christmas time I've never heard of such a thing and she said and she was in there because she wanted tuna or she says tuna or something yeah tuna and she said no they didn't have any toilet paper 600 people people why is that even a thing why are we having to do that this is going to be hard on everybody can't we come together as a worldwide community and support each other to get through this we can be better than this we can do better than this I know we can let's try maybe maybe maybe all right we're gonna go home now and unpack and relax I think I need a cup of tea to calm down and maybe some art it's snowing it's snowing yeah I do like the snow and it's snowing out yay I've got some pictures I'll sort them here I'll be back guys it's the end of the evening like 6 30 or so on Saturday and I'm just taking out the trash um I'm gonna this this ending is going to be for both vlogs so um at the time of filming this I don't know if I'm going to have two vlogs like I have been doing or just one for this week um I get tired of and I'm sure you do too of harping on my mental health and physical health issues with you regular youtube viewers I'm sure you don't want to hear about it at nauseam and how I'm coping or not coping so well um but in this stressful time that we're having right now I do think it's important to talk about it and to be informed and for me that helps me get through the anxiety along with art and reading and doing the things that I love that I can still do um walking in the evenings in my neighborhood staying out of large crowds and all of that stuff does help me a lot um staying safe but still doing what I can um it does mean not going to shops it does mean you know not going into anywhere where I think there's going to be a big crowd of people if I can help it and when I do have to do that being safe about it um there is a momma pop shop in my old home area of California called Donatos markets and I am going to see if I can screenshot a post that they made on Facebook to their customers and on social media and email to their customers and insert it right about here and I was so impressed by it and what it read and I do encourage you all to stop the camera right here and read the whole thing um if you can I will also try to link my copy of the post over on Facebook in the description below or a screenshot of it or something um I had a reply to it on Facebook which I also will share here for you to read um we all need to be be better we need to be better humans to each other we need to do what is advised to do and stay home I know it's tough but it's the way we're going to get through and um the alternative is not acceptable so let's do what we can to support each other and help each other get through I do have some ideas for some kid friendly art um so now unfortunately all the children are going to be home from school for a couple weeks so I do think I'm going to work on some of that ASAP and it will be airing um as often as I can get it to air and I'll be have asking some of my YouTube friends to do the same hashtag simple kid art and um um not monetized marked kid friendly so no comments allowed um and all of that but hopefully it'll help you parents out there give your kids some friendly creative things to do hopefully we can spur some ideas there of what you may already have at home without having to expose yourself and go out we'll give it a shot anyway um I was very pleased to see this morning that a snowed outside I love the snow that was great and we made some mary and berry cobbler I'll insert two pictures some pictures here that both of those things that was great too so it's been a stressful but fun week and uh going forward we'll see you know what other things we can get it get to that we will enjoy doing and having fun with and yeah don't necessarily need to leave the house and go into a large crowd to have fun that's a lesson here right it's all about the simple things sometimes all right that's it for today don't forget to like share and subscribe support your local artists and creatives if you can um most of them have something in the video descriptions myself included whether it's a PayPal tip jar or an Amazon affiliate link or an Etsy shop or Patreon or something I have a bunch of those so check out the video description support them and their free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook where you can support your local mom and pop businesses you know you might not feel comfortable eating out at a restaurant right now I can sympathize with that get some takeout they're all doing takeout lots of them will um uh markets around here and the restaurants they're delivering it to the curb we have service to the house I can do I don't normally do stuff like that but this is the time to investigate into doing that and to take advantage of some of those things yeah all right that's it right now also this is the time to let your kids watch tv and play video games just FYI all right so that's it don't forget to love share support do what you can let's stop this thing in its tracks and above all go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys