 always great when you start off Sunday morning by having to close the vlog because you forgot last night. Yeah, that's a thing. Anyway, I am up and I am showered and dressed. I ate a little bit too much dessert last night because I got on the scale this morning and went oops. So yeah, I might be drinking a lot of bone broth today and doing some intermittent fasting. So anyway, I need to go to the library today because I am sorry, I'm checking email while I'm talking to you. I need to go to the library today because there's a book that I asked for that's ready to be picked up. So I need to go that do that today. I don't know what else we're doing today. I don't think a lot. I do have a new style of knee brace on my leg and on my knee, obviously. And you know, we'll see at the end of the day what it feels like. But so far, it's the most comfortable feeling one I have. I have a lot of them. I've tried a lot of them. It feels very supportive, which is surprising because it's very thin. But it also has lots of non-slip stuff on the inside so that as you're wearing it, it doesn't roll down. Which is one of the things about the other knee braces that drives me up the wall. And if you have to wear a deep brace, you understand what I mean. It's like a compression sock for your knee and they roll. They just roll. Anyway, despite the knee, I like to stay active. So I need something that's going to stay in place. Anyway, we'll see how it goes at the end of the day. But so far, so good. Uh, something was missing out of my Amazon package yesterday. But I got on the chat with them last night and they're going to send me a replacement. The package came open. So yeah, anyway, I'm going to check my social media and get that done. Bob is actually working today. So um, his company does, um, he's in tech. He makes, he works for a company that makes capital semiconductor equipment. And yeah, they make the machines that make the wafers that make the chips that go in everything on the planet. And anyway, they have a software update website update thing today. I don't know. That's all I know about it. And he's got to be on the line with people and monitor what's going on to make sure everything goes smoothly. So we'll see. Anyway, so while he's doing that, I've got other, I have to finish laundry too. I got halfway through laundry last night and then forgot about it. So while he's doing his thing and working, I'm going to get on, get some chores done, run to the library, I'll maybe put some puffy eye gel on because holy cow. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I also have to do smart. So we'll do that too. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Monday, the 22nd, I think of August. It's only half past 10. I am in the midst of video editing vlog first and then I have a bunch of video that I shot with my phone vlog style, but that's for the patrons and mostly me working on different art projects and art foamy projects and they'll at least get first look. You all might see it at some point, but they're going to get first look. So anyway, and that squeaking is my feet on the stairs. Anyway, I'm going to make some bone broth. I already got the plants watered out back and all of that jazz. Today's just to stay at home Monday. So I'm okay with that. Lots of different appointments and things going on this week. So, you know, I'm going to take the relaxing moments where I can. So anyway, let's make some bone broth and then get on with our video editing because unfortunately I don't have an editor. I am my editor, so it's not going to get itself done. I'll be back. Morning, everybody. It is Tuesday morning, 10 30 ish, something like that. Hold on. Tuesday, August 23rd. Anyway, we're going to go for a little walk this morning because in the last month or so, I haven't gotten many steps in. It's been way too hot, but I also finally think I found a the perfect knee brace. So for those that don't know, I have a torn meniscus and I haven't had surgery on it or anything. I've had physical therapy. I've had a couple of cortisone shots. Most of the time it's okay, but sometimes due to my own stupidity, to be honest, I have to, I aggravated and then I need to wear a brace for a bit to get it to calm down. And finding the right knee brace or other, you know, appliance like that that you need to use, it's difficult and there's a lot of different ones out there. And let me go somewhere where it's less bright. It's not that there's anything wrong with them. It just takes time to find the right one for you and that means I have an excess. So I need to see if anybody else in the family needs them before I sell off the ones that don't work. But I did find this one. You can see that there it's actually sort of a nude color. So that actually works for me too. But it stays up, it doesn't roll down. It holds where I need it to. At least apparently I've had it for three or four days now. We're going to go for a little walk. We're going to see how it does and test it out. Bob's already been up for, of course, quite a while working. He had a dental appointment this morning that he went to. I've checked on social media and all that stuff. Of course, I have chores to do, but let's go for a walk first and get a few extra steps in. I'll be back. Back for my walk. The knee brace did great. I did film a little something while I was out and that will show up in a few weeks. But anyway, the knee brace were great. Does my knee feel like the right one? No, my left knee will never feel like the right one, but it feels pretty good. And then I was filming the ending clip for what I filmed when I was out. And let's see if I can turn the camera around to say that the phone was perched precariously for filming is probably an understatement. I had it clipped up there. Yeah, because I'm lazy and I want to get the tripod out. Or the actual camera. I filmed it with my phone. Anyway, I'm going to just sit and chill off because I got a little sweaty and have some bone broth and maybe some lunch. I think it's just about time. So I'll be back. Okay. I also spent a little bit of time painting and I think it might almost be done. It will be for sale. I have this one and another one that are currently for sale. If you're interested, I'll put the picture of the other one here. They're both the same price. Information will be down below. You can direct message me. And yeah, I think this would look beautiful in your house, in your space. I love the way it turned out. We're going to let it dry and then I'll take a second look at it. But yeah, I like it. I'm pretty happy. I'll be back. Hey, you guys. Good morning. It is 11 29 a.m. Wednesday, August 24th. I've been busy already this morning. I have made some overnight oats for the next few days. I've got a loaf of bread working in the bread machine. Laundry is working, dishes are working, all of that stuff. I also wrote a community post for our little communities here on next door. And I've been in communication with the former HOA board president and one of the current board members. We had one of our neighbors last night near the front of the community. Her garage was broken into last night and her car was stolen. So that's highly unusual for my community. I don't know specifics more than that, but that's not good. So we're trying to let the community know, find out who besides us has security cameras. And if they do, if they caught anything, we didn't catch anything. We're all the way in the back of the community. And if it's the house that I'm thinking of, they didn't really have need to come all the way back here if they were stealing the car on their way out. I mean, I don't know anything's possible. Anyway, I already checked. We didn't catch anything. I did send them the footage I did have because my cameras did go off about that time, but it didn't catch anything. Anyway, that's a fun way to start the day, right? I'll be back. As I ended up doing a lot of art and computer art. I created some new stickers and thank you notes for the patrons and supporters. And I've got some boxes here lined up that I need to finish packaging, write notes on the back of the card that they're going to get inside along with their custom art foamy. And it's quite a production. So if you're a patron and supporter and you're watching this, I know you know this is coming, but it's going to be a while, okay? Because it's a lot. Anyway, I created some new stickers too for them. At the moment, they're not available in the Etsy shop, but this is them. How cute are those? And I'll get one in their box at random. I'm also going to, of course, use them in my journals and stuff, but anyway. This is 26th, 10.01 a.m. That's right, Friday. I realized very late last night. I never vlogged yesterday. I just completely forgot to turn the camera on. It was a counseling day in my defense, so before and after counseling, I spent a lot of time journaling, obviously without the camera on. I will put some pictures here of the journal pages I worked on using my art foamies. Anyway, I am this morning working on finishing up the resin pieces that I made from the molds of the art foamies. I'm also prepping September journals. I'm going to do the September one a little bit differently slash old school. Sorry, getting a text message. Nothing but can't wait. Um, so yeah, I've listed some purge stuff on a couple of Facebook sites for purging art supplies and artwork and, um, yeah, it's all good. I don't know. It was a weird day. I never turned the camera on. That's just so strange and not like me. Okay. We need to go get some steps in, but we also need to grocery shop, so I guess we're getting said steps in at the grocery store. We've got to stop and drop off an Etsy order at the mailbox. Oh boy, another bin. I wonder if somebody's moving. Somebody else, maybe. Clean out their house. I'm glad I summed that. Anyway, a lot of changes going on in the neighborhood. Yeah, so anyway, we're going to go get that done. It's always a weird day when Letty comes. We love her coming, but it's hard for me, in particular, to like work around her, not get her her way and let her do her job, but today especially because I had Etsy orders coming in and questions from patrons and it was a little bit of a challenge, but we got it done. Anyway, we need to go get some groceries because the family's coming tomorrow and yeah, that's a thing. Need food. Need food. Mr. Bob needs a steak to barbecue or something. He's trying to for something. So we're going to go get it done and we'll be done. I do have a hobby mail address. It's down below. You all want to send me something, but you never do. That's okay. All right. Etsy order off now to the grocery store. Okay, so that was an interesting shopping trip. We were shopping in the bulk bins and which we do every time we go and I heard somebody talking. I heard voices. I know that sounds bad, but I heard voices. It wasn't all in my head. Somebody, evidently, I'm guessing was shopping and had some sort of podcast playing on their phone and they said their phone down on a bulk bin while they did their shopping and then they walked away and left their phone and left it on. It was a big Samsung phone. Yeah, it was a big phone and it was loud. It was on full blast. So that was strange enough, but I took the phone and I'm not the person who could just leave it there and walk away. I took the phone, I picked it up and I brought it up to the front to customer service because that's what I do and got some in my eye. The funny part is I said I know this is probably weird, but I found this phone over by the bulk bins. She says, oh no, we get them almost every day. In fact, this is my third one since five o'clock. It was only about six o'clock just FYI. You're walking away from people. I know something. I don't know how that happens, but we're going to go, after all the shopping, we're not going to cook dinner. We're going to go grab that express and go home. But anyway, I get the veggie bowl. All right, we'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Saturday morning. August something. I don't know. It's about 10 30 a.m. Let's get the computer up. Bob is off to the eye doctor. He had to get new lenses put into his glasses. It's August 27th by the way. I've already got the backyard plants watered. Obviously I'm like dressed and stuff. I did sleep in a little bit this morning, but that's okay. Got the dishwasher running. All the chores. All the chores done. Family's coming over to dinner tonight. So kind of making sure things are picked up. I have art, of course, my downstairs art stuff on the sofa. So I've got to put that away before people get here. But first I'm feeling like I should be up here for a bit checking on email and social media. I don't know what else we're going to do today before the family gets here. Maybe nothing. Maybe go for a walk since we haven't gotten too many steps in lately because of the heat. When it's 100 degrees out, you just the last thing you want to do is go walking. At least for me. Anyway, trying to keep busy. I have a doctor's appointment next Friday for a checkup, which of course has me a little nervous. But you know, I'm dealing with it okay, better than in the past. Thank you medication and counseling. Thank you, Scarlett. Yeah, anyway, we're all good. So we have stuff to do, you know, it's a matter of picking which one to do at any given moment, right? All right. And yeah, that is probably done. I might, I don't know, we're going to sit with it for a few days. I might add one more thing to it, but we'll see. If you're interested in buying it or any other artworks, let me know. My contact info is down in the video description. So anyway, all right, YouTube just came up with news, like there's a reason I don't look at it. Anyway, that's it for the minute. And I think it's going to be a pretty good day, but we'll see. And I'll be back. So Bob's little friend, one of many, you know, he actually is trying to feed the birds, not the squirrels, but you know, and they just get completely in the dish. And they fight over this one dish, which is funny because there's another one over there. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Wait, there, there you go. But no, they fight over that one. Okay, we're going to go for a walk. It's only in the mid sixties or so. I've got a bunch of rocks I painted. I've got to put out while we're out. So I'm going to go see what we can see. It's been the first time in like, I don't know, forever, ever, and ever. So let's go see what we can see and what's happening in the neighborhood. I'll be back. Hey guys, upstairs closing windows for the evening. It's actually a little chilly outside. I'm not mad about it. Anyway, I almost forgot to close the vlog again. We had a family dinner. That was great. Becca and Paulie's came over. My dad is here. Jenny and Brian couldn't make it this week. Flipping through my journal to find the next page to work on. I'm trying to do two things at once and do one thing, one of them one-handed. I like to like, hold journals open when they start to get fat and chunky like that. Anyway, we had a good family dinner on Saturday. We bought barbecued some beef. We boiled some corn on the cob. We had some biscuits, gelato, iced coffee. Like it was really nice. Got silly with each other, but that was all good and good fun. Anyway, it's been a fun week. It's been an interesting week. It's always an interesting week. Next week's going to be, there's not too much going on, but I have a doctor's appointment. And for those that don't know, I suffer from anxiety and depression. And I am medicated and in counseling. Still a challenge that doesn't solve anything, everything. But anyway, medical things are one of my triggers. And so I'm getting better, but they still make me nervous. And it's just a checkup, but yeah. And it's not until Friday. That's okay. I'm just going to keep myself busy all week. So, anyway, for those that don't know, my dad is a retired auto mechanic, locksmith and master machinist. Anyway, and Bob owns a hot rod. So, you can see here that my dad and Bob does their talking. I'm going to go finish my iced coffee and watch some YouTube before bed, do my daily puzzles. Yes, I do some online puzzle games to keep the old noggin sharp. Sometimes it works. Sometimes not so much. Anyway, I will see you all next week. Don't forget to stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Please check out the video description, like, share and subscribe. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you next week. Bye guys. I got to go close the windows. I'll be back. I'll see you later.