 It's 10, 25 a.m. Bob and I are going to head out obviously because we're in the car and we're on some always in the car. We're going to run some pre-4th of July errands. We've got a few more food things to buy. All the kids are coming over and we're barbecuing. So we're going to go do that and barbecue the burgers. Barbecuing burgers yeah burgers and potato salad and we're going to go for a little bit of a drive to do that. We don't have to like drive down to Newburg but we're going to anyway and see what we get up to. I don't know. We have nowhere else to be until dinner tonight so it's all good. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is 10 24 a.m. Monday July 3rd. Bob is here at the house. He's going to do some chores. He's off this week so he's going to do some chores. I'm going to run over to Value Village really quick. The daughter sent me a coupon. There is one piece for a project I want to kind of try to find and if I can use a coupon to get it all the better but anyway. I wasn't going to go except she sent me a coupon so anyway. Hey guys happy 4th of July. It is Tuesday morning sometime till I 4th. I'm seeing 11.53 a.m. just about lunchtime. I've been up for a bit here in the art room editing the vlog for tomorrow because I hadn't done it yet and the rest of the day will be spent getting ready for family gathering here at the house barbecue and all that traditional stuff. I doubt I'm going to get any work done on this but you never know but I doubt it. I also have that. Now I have noticed in my algorithms on YouTube the upcycling videos are getting a lot of views. Oh my god you guys so we're going to keep going with those I think. I may film the dad the last pair of dad pants if you all want to see it. I might film that and then I'm probably going to film the jacket and then if you want to see how I made the make the dad pants bags I have two more pants bottoms so let me know in the comments below. All right that's it for the minute. I'm going to finish this video computer nonsense and then turn that off and I'll be back. I would say good morning but yep it's almost dinner time. It is the Wednesday not Thursday. Wednesday July 5th. We had a great time yesterday celebrating the 4th of July with the kids and doing fireworks. It was Junior's first 4th of July and although he's an infant I'd like to think he had fun. I don't know but it was a lot of fun. Didn't think I was very into fireworks but fun fact. They have those little tiny like smoke bombs. Those are fun especially if you mix the colors up. Anyway I've been getting my next pair and for the moment last pair of dad pants ready to sew sometime in the next couple of days hopefully when I have time. I am planning on filming some more upcycling clothing videos for you all. I don't know if you want me to show you how to make a pair of dad pants. You can let me know but there are lots of tutorials on there on doing these sort of fabric collage on pants and I want to remind you all to keep in the back of your mind. I know I'm not doing a lot of painting or art journaling at the moment on camera. I am doing some it's just on camera. But the fabric collage type things and the upcycling things I'm doing you could very easily use these techniques to make a journal cover or an art supply bag to go or urban sketching bag like you could use this for a lot of other things other than garments and for me this is a piece of like wearable art fabric collage. So I think why I'm liking doing it. One of the projects I think I want to film is this jacket I just thrifted which is a Liz Claybourne jacket. I paid like five bucks for it. I have pieces and parts I'm pulling as you can see thinking about what I want to do before I actually cut into anything and I think I'm going to do some more dad pants bags because I have two more pant leg bottoms. I do think I'll film that too and I have an idea for some belts. So yeah always busy except for this morning we spent a lot of time just being lazy because we retired from last night I think. Anyway all right that's it for the minute obviously. So we've had an interesting start some morning. It is Thursday July 6th. I'm expecting a couple of deliveries today. Bob is off getting some blood work done for some annual checkups. He's got coming up one of which is tomorrow and the other one is in like I don't know we can have for something anyway. We had a power surge of some kind this morning that threw off some of the breakers here in the house so suddenly half the house wasn't working. I don't know and as he was leaving for one of his appointments he said that the TV and cable trucks are around the corner down the street so I don't know if they did something or I'm going to assume that they did anyway. I am going to be working on finishing my last pair for the moment of dad pants and trying to film some of it for another upcycling video here on the YouTube channel. We also are babysitting today but Bob is off of work so when he gets home from his appointment this morning he can help me with the grandson while I maybe finish the dad pants so that's the plan anyway. I'll be back okay with a little mini grandson neighbor kid furnace maintenance guy break because you know everything happens at once right? Got those on my head just you know it's a thing. All right we're going to finish the pants it's probably good to not poke yourself and get blood on the pants although you are about to wash them so to probably come out just saying. All right okay you guys the pants are done and frayed and dry would you like to see? Can you see? Let's see hang on so these are the pants what do you think? I like them so yeah dad pants maybe you can make some but you also could do this on a journal cover while hanging like you could do anything with it you could do another back of a denim jacket make yourself some fine clothes because why not? Life's way too short. TV appears we have some dear little friends at the bird feeder and it's not a school. There are some not that late big black rats that we occasionally get. They look like large field mice I think interesting they must be hungry they're coming this close to the house bobbinous creatures as long as they stay outside I'm good with it they come in the house it's a different story they're sharing nice I'm like the squirrels squirrels don't know how to share I'm gonna have a guard mice now along with the guard squirrels. All right we'll be back. Good morning guys it is just before lunch on Friday. Red line to camera. July 7th I think I don't know it's Friday it's the Friday after 4th of July I think it's the 7th anyway Bob is off having his colonoscopy screening I just dropped him off I'm gonna go run a couple errands while he's having that done and then pick him up they'll call me in about an hour and a half or so and yeah anyway you know colonoscopy screenings as we get to be a certain age those are one of the things that you have to do on a routine basis if you're like Bob every 10 years if you're like me every five years if you're like a friend of mine one to year um but you gotta have it done colon colon cancer is one of those silent killers my grandfather my dad's dad died of metastasized colon cancer and he died in 1969 there was little or no screening then I don't believe and he ended up getting it in his bones liver and brain and he died from it now today we have colon cancer screenings and it's one of those things that they can catch early most of the time and so you know yeah it's not a fun procedure the procedure itself's not a big deal it's the prep the prep sucks but do it anyway suck it up and do it anyway anyway uh so he did he's doing that and uh I'm gonna go run a couple errands while he's doing that and then later on I think two of the four kids are gonna come over for dinner but we're just keeping it low key easy we're gonna do some Trader Joe's broccoli beef and I'll steam up a pot of rice and I don't even think we're gonna go grocery shopping this weekend our fridge is really full right now I am gonna go grab a couple of things that we're out of we're running out of and um other than that I think we're gonna let it go and if I have to go during the week next week I'll do that so anyway we're babysitting all day tomorrow I should say that's why we're not like doing errands or grocery shopping or anything tomorrow which Saturday is our usual day but we're babysitting junior so you know I'd rather babysit the grocery shop any day of the week all right I'll be back okay it's Saturday morning July 8th I think oh yeah and it's just before 11 o'clock we have junior you can see that there you go they handle um we're starting out with well I'm not allowed to show his face I know um we're starting out the morning with a walk and I guess junior is off his schedule he woke up late ate breakfast late it's okay pops and oh my don't really believe in baby schedules so there's Saturday everybody gets up late on Saturday I mean yeah everybody sleeps in exactly so we're babysitting today we're staying home we're still adjusting to being grandparents and like merging my creative schedule with OMA schedule and you know I'm a little less creatively productive but that's okay because my time is well spent with junior so you know you got to sacrifice some stuff sometimes and it's all good anyway it's cloudy and overcast it's not super warm yet today although it's supposed to be in the 80s junior is very well bundled up we're going to go for a walk get some steps in see what we can see and I'll be back yeah junior's gone home and we're going to go out for another walk get a few more steps before dinner because we sat on the couch all afternoon just whereas neither is munching because you know yeah but all we did was eat all afternoon I need to get some steps in I probably had 400 calories and nuts so anyway we're going to go get some steps in I'm an alarm for closing the vlog every week and I still almost forget nearly every week I know I have no idea I got quite a bit done on my sweater that I'm working on out of just random yarn and I am to the point where I started the shoulders so yay so pretty soon we'll be working on the back and then we'll do the sleeves and I said earlier I think I don't know but my intention is to just keep not knitting sorry crochet oh yeah yeah I see it's late it's 10 15 or something um my intention is to keep crocheting on the front do the shoulders and then when I get the shoulders done I'm gonna just keep going and do the back and so the front and back with the neck hole will be all one piece and then when I start the sleeves I will start them by starting the crocheting on the body piece so that when I'm done I only have an underarm and side seam that's what I'm hoping in the meantime I'm using so many different kinds of yarn there's a lot of threads to hide when I'm done but yeah we're adjusting to being grandparents having junior here all the time and I'm adjusting to a new creative schedule I much rather cut back on creativity to spend time with the grandson there is nothing wrong with that sometimes life just happens and you have to go with the flow with things and that's all cool so anyway I have to do today's drawings I haven't done that yet but anyway if you want to see what I do on the daily I try to do something a little bit creative every single day follow me on social media my link tree links list of links is down below along with my patreon I do have a private conversation 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importantly go out and have fun enjoy life get inspired and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you next week bye guys