 Happy Sunday morning everybody. It is Sunday morning December 19th. It's about 11 20 ish a.m. We're gonna head out and go run errands. My sister and her husband are staying with us but they're headed up to my dad's to help him with a couple things at his house and while they're gone We're gonna run some errands do some grocery shopping We have still a lot of food in the fridge, but we're running out of a couple of things So we're gonna go do that check the PO box drop off a bag of donations Because it's that time of year you get gifts in things have to go out, right? You make way for the new by getting rid of some of the old and passing it on to somebody who can use it So we're gonna take a bunch of old kitchen stuff to donation. I also we also have two big bags of puzzles I do like to do puzzles fun fact But I have two big bags of puzzles. I've done already I do think my sister and her husband also do puzzles and they might want what's in the bags or some of it So we're gonna wait and let them check the bags first Before we draw donate them, but anyway, we're gonna go run a bunch of errands. I Think there's some birds nests in a tree. I'm not sure that they know. It's the wrong time of year for that Anyway, we're gonna go do that and I've got to catch up on my daily drawings because I'm a little bit behind and All of that stuff. So we're gonna get it done and I'll be back buddy. It is Monday morning December 20th, I think What time is it? I don't know What he said what he said I do think we're gonna try to go for a walk My sister is still working this morning and we're gonna go run some Christmas errands later. Wow the stove is dirty Okay, I'm gonna clean that anyway, we're gonna go get some steps in and Get some exercise cuz tomorrow's gonna be just all day in the car and eating again And like I need some exercise cuz yeah, let's not gain all the weight back Anyway, all right. I've got my knee brace on got my rub on so we're good to go All right, let's go through it. It is just after 11 a.m. Wednesday December 22nd my sister Elizabeth and Philip are Finishing up their work for the day and packing the car and getting ready to leave. I just put the last little bit or Part of the last little bit of the deer corn outside for Bambi because he's Been coming over looking for food and we still have a little bit of deer corn. We might as well put it out. So Anyway, I'm doing some work on the Facebook groups and having coffee and catching up on chats and all the things Cuz you know, yeah, see Say hi. That's my sister So anyway, so I was doing all that this morning and You know Typical post-holiday fridge is full of food. Our projects are piling up, you know, it is what it is All right, I'm gonna get to it. I'll be back Wednesday is 237 p.m. Sister is on her way back home. She lives in Utah Dad is on his way. He stopped in for lunch and to see Sister off and then he's on his way over to Silver Falls, my brother is there with his new wife from Southern, California Visiting her family dad's going to join them for a couple of days and then head back this way Anyway, that all happened around lunchtime In the meantime after they all left I went ahead and put together two new winter Newton palettes I got for Christmas from the kids. I got the skyscape palette and I got the floral palette Each one of their themed palettes comes with empty spots so I went through my paint collection and This is colors I thought if I was going to use this to paint skyscape inspired paintings that I would want to use under my fingers Just Chinese white. You don't need to see that. It's just white And this is the florals palette There you go, and then I have a regular basic Winter Newton palette and that I've added a couple colors to and I also have a landscape palette And I like the theme palette each one of them have there's commonalities between them but they have different colors and if I'm in a Earthy mood I get out this landscape palette if I'm in a bright cheery Sun-loving mood I get out the floral palette if I get you know, if I'm in a Stormy moody sky mood to get out the skyscape palette. It just depends So anyway, I like having those around they're a lot of fun and they're winter Newton paint So they're not expensive. I like the pocket palette, which is that that size of palette Yeah, yeah, yeah help this size of palette. It's really tiny. It folds up really small wonderful of spare paints This here folds up really small. You can fit 12 half pans in it There is a space normally for a brush Right there and it does come with one of these little tiny pocket brushes I generally travel with and even downstairs use a water the Pentel water brush but So so I don't use that brush, but I do like it. It makes a nice little fine brush for detail work I usually take the brush Section in in my regular winter Newton palettes not all of them and I use hot glue and little pieces of plastic to Divide it into thirds so I can add three more colors So you can get 15 colors into the palette into this Little tiny small box. This is tiny and you just need that a couple of brushes and a sketchbook and you're good to go It's really easy to travel with so anyway, and you know when they're Newton paints They're not They're not Schminke and they're not Daniel Smith, but they're also not bad So anyway Yeah, so now I'm done with that. I'm gonna put this away Which is what I was just holding it under my arm, which is why you were at a funny angle anyway I'm gonna put this away and a couple other things Turn off the computer then I need to get some laundry out of the dryer and make the bed Set up. I think we're getting more guests because of the holidays on Monday or Tuesday or something I don't know so I need to get the guest room back together. I've already cleaned it. So anyway Yeah, and I gotta do it tonight because the cleaning lady's coming tomorrow. So Mm-hmm All right, I think that's it maybe It's been a fun few days, but I mean it's Christmas It's gonna be busy crazy and I'm gonna get some art in where I can but you know It might be spotty at best, but we'll see what we can do. We just dropped off mail at the kids house Now we're gonna go drive and look at Christmas lights. We're looking for one in particular House with Christmas lights that has a let's see. How do we say this in a youtube friendly manner? Can we say the youtube? So we're gonna call it the controversial holiday light display Some people in the area aren't happy. I think that shit's funny Here's a picture of it right here. What do you think? All right, we're gonna go look at a few more houses and then go home for a cup of tea and maybe some dessert And some movies and some movies today's puzzles I've got to do today's drawings all the things I'll be back. It is 9 10 a.m Thursday December 23rd pretty sure Anyway, um, I am headed out because I've got physical therapy this morning It is all of Well, my car says 42 degrees, but I'm pretty sure it's a little colder than that We've already had that discussion. My car is getting old. Um Anyway We're gonna go out and do physical therapy. I've got to check the p.o. Box Meanwhile, bob is at home and our friend and Lady who helps us keep the house clean letty She is fab you lusts by the way Um She's there at the house I try to clean before she comes I know that sounds ridiculous, but you know, I don't want her to necessarily spend a whole bunch of time putting my Shit away. I'd rather her focus on the cleaning cleaning If you get my drift the stuff I can't do because of my asthma. So Uh, anyway, I think the house is ready to go. She'll get some of that done while I'm gone And yeah, otherwise it's going to be a quiet day at home. I think we're going to make cookies later Um, I just saw a skeleton dressed in a Santa hat on the front of a car. That was funny. Um Anyway, and of course probably try to do some art later I meant to do some drawing in my sketchbook last night besides the daily doodle stuff and To be honest, it just got to be really late and really tired and bob had a very strange movie on that was alternately weird But also fascinating I still don't get it It was the new matrix movie Can you all explain it to me because I didn't get it Maybe somebody can put something down below can have a conversation over in a life of art and self expression because I don't I watched it in morbid fascination, but I still don't understand it. I'm still confused Okay, so We've actually lost track of how many days it's been since we went for a walk four days five days I'm not sure Was that monday or sunday? monday, maybe and it's thursday So we're going out for a walk because I'm starting I don't know about bob But I'm starting to feel like a couch potato slug that can't keep its eyes open Yeah, anyway, we're gonna go for a walk see what we can see It's cold. It's only gonna get colder. We've got a snowstorm coming in but we're gonna enjoy it while we can and While that is full of a lot of water to hear that Anyway, we'll be back the whole flock is here They're looking at me like did you bring us food? I'm sorry unless you like cough drops. I don't have anything for you Maybe next time morning everybody I know it's dark. It's not because it's night. It's 9 39 or something a.m Friday December 24th christmas eve It's just dark and stormy outside Let's put my coffee down and turn some lights on um Mr. Bob is showering and getting dressed and then We need to go grocery shopping for the kids. They are not coming home until sunday By sunday. We're gonna be getting hit with a snowstorm or at least we're supposed to be And lots of things might be shut down because that's what happens here When you get like just a few inches of snow I know those of you who live in canada And other parts of the country and the world they get a lot more snow than that are laughing Believe me. I get it I think all of portland owns like Only one or two snow plows and They don't have enough drivers for what they do have. It's just yeah. Anyway, hold on while bob is showering I'm going to check on social media And then we're going to go out to the grocery store For the kids and pick them up some things in case when they do get home everything is shut down Uh, anyway Then we also have to drain our pond in the back. We have a small tiny little pond We're going to drain it because It's supposed to get to be freezing And yeah, that wouldn't be good for the pond. So we got to drain that today Those are our two things to do today at christmas eve This is funny. So I can't get us both in one shot without like creativeness because He's a lot taller than I am. Yep. We just want to tell you all merry christmas. Merry christmas We are going out for a christmas day walk and Because we can it's not too drizzly yet. It's not icy yet and it's not snow yet But that's all supposed to start coming at like three o'clock this afternoon So we're going to be home Being couch potatoes then hopefully I'm going to be catching up on and or finishing out the 2021 sketchbooks And while we watch movies Uh All the kids have dispersed to other members of the family Which is kind of okay with us because we are very peopled out at the moment Tired. We're tired. Yeah, just tired and we've got more holiday stuff starting on monday, so We're going to just take a couple of days to rest because why not. The day's coming monday, right? Yeah, and then my dad's coming on wednesday. No, they're coming tuesday, right? No monday the 27th is monday Oh, jeez And he and his new wife are staying the night and then they leave and then dad comes again Anyway Very blessed to have so much family that wants to see us, but yeah, I need a break too Anyway, we hope you all have a merry christmas or a happy holiday whatever one you celebrate We hope it's a good one that you're having fun With your friends and family and loved ones that you're taking care of yourself and being mindful Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative and for god's sake go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'm gonna go on my walk and I'll see you next week. Bye guys