 That's loud, holy cow. Morning people, it is 10.43 a.m. Sunday December 5th. Okay, so sorry, my computer is booting up and opening all the tech million tabs on my browser so I can check on social media and stuff this morning. We haven't done much walking the last few days because I wasn't feeling well from my booster shot, but I'm hoping we can catch up on some of that today. So I'm gonna check on social media and other than walking and doing chores around the house, I don't think we're doing much today. I think we're just sticking around the house so I think that's fine with me. I'm gonna check in with a friend who's having a tough time and make sure she's okay and all of those things do some art, catch up, watch some more of my Felix Scheinberger class. I'm really enjoying his expressive, creative way of drawing. I'm really, really enjoying that. So he has a unique expressive way of drawing and journaling and yeah, it's really my thing at the moment so I may be going forward. So anyway, I got some more of that class to watch so that's gonna be, and I've got a book of his that I got from the library that I think I'm gonna, it's on my Christmas wish list and I think if I don't get it for Christmas I think I'm gonna just buy it for myself because yeah, I'm really enjoying it. So anyway, all right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Guys, so just got off the phone with the daughter. We're discussing Christmas shopping. Anyway, obviously we're outside, we're walking. I'm feeling, as I said earlier, mostly normal. Well, I mean, that's relative, but mostly back to my normal. Post COVID shot, COVID booster shot. Anyway, we're gonna get some steps in before lunch. It's so nice to be out in the fresh air. It's a little bit chilly, but that's okay. Anyway, I'm gonna go see what we can see, take some pictures, and I'll be back. I think we come here too much. They don't seem to be afraid of us anymore. Anyway, there's at least two pair, but I think there's at least one more duck farther down in the pond. Yeah, there's someone down there. Yeah, lots of crows, lots of squirrels. They're all out enjoying the sunshine even though it's cold before it rains again. There's a couple more, there's two more back there. Oh yeah, hold on. A lot of seven. Yeah, they're just kind of hard to see because they blend in. 10.03 a.m. Monday, December 6th. I have just been fiddling around on the computer and having my morning coffee and doing my exercises and otherwise haven't really accomplished a whole lot. Probably the most festive street in the neighborhood. I don't think there's any houses down there with no decorations on. If any, there's maybe one. Pretty cool. I'm still in my pajamas. I don't know what time it is, nine o'clock, 9.30. It's been an interesting morning already so I don't have to rush to get to the foot doctor because my foot doctor has COVID so my appointment had to be rescheduled. That's okay, so we have some unexpected things going on around the house too and I need to go do an order pickup at Home Depot and drop some stuff, a package off for my husband at the UPS store and, and, and, and, and. So anyway, I'm gonna do my exercises, take a shower, get dressed, make the bed, all the things for the things, because of the things. Yeah, I'll be back. Morning guys. So as I said earlier, my foot doctor appointment's been rescheduled because the foot doctor has COVID. So I am going to go out and run a whole bunch of errands that honestly I wasn't gonna do today. I was gonna do tomorrow or Friday or even wait a little longer than that and do them with the husband over the weekend. But I'm gonna go do them now because I've got time. I've already done my exercises and stuff and yeah. So this wasn't how I was planning on my day to go but you know, you gotta roll with the punches, don't ya? All right, that's it for the minute, I'll be back. Okay, the two mailing things are done and I need to try not to lose the backs of my earrings again. It's the one thing about wearing a mask that annoys me. Um, I have to buy bags of earring bags. Anyway, I digress. So the two mailing things are done and now we're gonna head over to Beaverton and run two errands over there. Then we'll head back this way and hit for admire and return one of the two books I got at the library and yeah, it is this one by Julie Faith Van Bowser. I do recommend the book if you're new to stamp carving. It's full of ideas and hints and tips and how tos. It's not the book for me, but it is a good book. I did pick up a few ideas out of it, but yeah, anyway. I am going to, but it is, I wanna say it is a very good book, I would recommend it. If you have it at your library, go check it out at the library and um, yeah. I mean, even if you're an experienced carver, you might get some ideas. Like carving on rubber braiers, like who knew? Anyway, all right, I'll go. Anyway, I did get one little drawing done in my practice book for the feet. Like Shineburger class don't really like the way it turned out, but I'll include it here. You all give the patrons and supporters a sneak peek before you all see it, but I'll include the ugly ones here. I, you know, sometimes things just don't turn out the way you expect. Anyway, we are going to go, I think not go walking. I think we're gonna go, we have to go run a couple of Christmas errands. So I think we're gonna go do that and get some dinner while we're out. I don't know what exactly, but I'm gonna come back. I'm going to do my daily word brain puzzles for this noggin up here. And then I'm gonna do my daily drawings. I might break out the black, the black sketchbook, the black bag. I did pick up another couple of these at Dick Book today. I wanted a whole hand-like handful of them because I really enjoying using them in my sketchbook, but they literally had two. So I bought them both. I just dislike clearing a shelf, but anyway. So I went and ordered some more on their website today which I don't really like doing, but yeah. What are you gonna do? I don't know. Anyway, yeah, it's been a weird day, guys. I don't know, it's just been a very strange day. I'm grateful for the pediatric staff that's calling me and telling me that the doctor was sick with COVID before I got down there and got exposed. Thank you, God, but that happened that way. But that's weird. Yes, I know my shoes are squeaky. So errands were, of course, weird because there were just whole sections at the store again that were empty. I needed cottage cheese. We're trying not to do big giant grocery shopping until Sunday, but there just wasn't a lot in there. I got a different off-brand. I have a particular brand that I like, but I don't know. So anyway, we're gonna go see what Costco's like. That ought to be interesting. All right, I'll be back. Maybe I can get some more art done tomorrow. I do have physical therapy in the morning, but I'm hoping I can come home and film a couple of things. So I'm overdue for a messy journal or video, and I need to film another RT-Trio video, and, and, and, and, and. All right, excuse me, that's it for the minute. Morning, everybody. It is Wednesday, December 8th, 811 a.m. I know it's early, right? But I have physical therapy this morning. So turn left onto South West. Okay, I'm all done at Northlake Physical Therapy. If you need any work, physical therapy type work height, 100% would recommend them. And they're in the same building with an orthopedic office and an MRI visioning center. Yeah, it's a really great little complex. Anyway, now I'm gonna go try to pick up a few things on the Christmas list before I go home and try to, like, film a couple YouTube videos, because I'm a little bit behind on that. So, all right, let's get, let's get it done. It's not gonna do itself. I'll be back. I don't think I've filmed anything since first thing this morning. I ended up going to Target for some more Christmas stuff, and I found everything I needed, which is a surprise, because, you know, you all know that's not the norm right now. The store's always out of inventory on something like Costco was last night with the bone broth. Anyway, it's not quite six o'clock yet, so I'm just waiting for the husband to finish up his work day upstairs, and then I think we're gonna go for a quick walk, although I have 6,000 steps plus, so I don't need to do a ton of walking, but we will do some. I got all the Christmas presents wrapped and under the tree that I am allowed to access to wrap. So that's done. We did just get one more in. It's not an expensive gift, but it's a big box. I forgot that it was a big thing. Anyway, I got some artwork done. I started the new for end of December artsy trio video. I'm not gonna show you what I did, but I'm doing more art experience, very much inspired by Mike's vision board that he did, the mood board. It's his month to do it, and it's, yeah, really cool. I need to do some more drawing up here and downstairs, like behind the house of drawing. I like the way it's turned out. I also need to do a patron and a supporter live. I need to get that done in, if not tomorrow, Friday. They don't know that yet. Anyway, it's gonna be tough to get any of them in this month because of Christmas and family stuff and trying to get videos done and scheduled ahead of time for you all. And I need to do another messy journal or video. And yeah, it's just a lot. December's always crazy. Anyway, are you all ready for the holiday house? That light on my face is not for my flashlight. Oh my God, hang on. They do this for every holiday, and it's different every single time. Every year it's different. Yeah, it's so cool. Next to the skeleton house, it's my favorite house. But, you know, skeletons have to take precedence, especially when you have a 12 foot tall one. Just saying. It is Thursday morning, 10, 28, December 9th. I filmed a couple more clips for the RT Trio video. The page is still not dry yet, but I didn't really expect it to be today, although it's mostly dry. There is a wet spot, so we're gonna let it go until tomorrow and film the closing clip. In the meantime, I have an idea for another clip or another clip, another video, which is inspired me to sort my alcohol inks of which I have way too many because I don't use them enough. And I have duplicates of a few colors, which I don't understand why. Plus we have some mystery colors that when I moved the bottles leaked and, yeah, I don't know what color. I have no idea what color that is. I might need to use those first. Anyway, I have an idea. That's gonna be a separate video. Was it gonna film anything else today? I think just those two things. Yeah, I'm gonna go for a walk today sometime by myself because Bob's got a Lodge meeting, a Masonic Lodge meeting later. And I'm gonna try to see if the patrons and supporters wanna do a chat today. I'm gonna film this first, let him know I'm gonna go for a walk. Do they maybe wanna chat after lunch? So we'll see. Yeah, catching up on news and social media this morning and playing with my, I know. Anyway, I think that's it for the minute. There's not a lot going on, but that's okay with me. Tomorrow morning I have another physical therapy appointment at 8 a.m. bright and early. I may just do my walk and go to the grocery store, walk to the grocery store and back because we need tomatoes and coffee creamer. I should have gotten them yesterday while it was out, but you know. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Okay, we've got the hair up and a puffy eye cream on not that it ever does a lot of help, but you know. Anyway, we are going to go over to the store. I've got a plastic bag in my pocket. I've got an umbrella in my pocket because it is like that up there. So, you know, it could rain. Anyway, we'll go get our steps in and get the couple groceries we need at the same time and while everything else is drying, I'll be back. And I don't know where they go and they're awfully quick. I keep trying to figure it out, but I don't know. Good morning, everybody. It is 740 a.m. Friday morning, December 10th. I wanted to say February. I know it's not February. It is very early. It's very cold. It's like 39 degrees, 37 degrees, something like that. The car says 42, but I know that's not right. In fact, about my old Subaru, it gets so cold sometimes. I don't think the thermometer knows what to do. All right, anyway, we are headed over to physical therapy this morning and then I need to pop to the grocery store really quick for yet another thing we forgot that we need. Holy cow. We just need to go on Sunday and like get all of the things for the things because of the thing. Mom, it's a little bit nippy out here. Anyway, we're gonna go get the mail. I spent a few hours when I got home chatting with some friends online and patrons and supporters and making paper clusters. I'll put a picture here. I can't finish my one video because things aren't dry yet. So I was able to finish the other one though. I won't edit it until I can get the other one done. I'll edit them both at the same time. Hopefully this weekend, maybe on Sunday because maybe it should start by then. Anyway, I'm gonna check the mail. Hopefully it's here because I think we have a Christmas card coming back not because of a dead person because we don't have the right address. So in case you're new to this channel, like, share and subscribe. But yes, we send out well over 100 Christmas cards every year and invariably we send one or more to people who have passed away in the prior year because I have forgotten or we didn't know or something. We do try to send cards, but you know, if you've passed away that makes it difficult. So anyway, this year, I think one of the nephews moved and I think nobody gave us the address. So anyway, I'm gonna go inside. It is even for me, it's cold out here and we'll get that fixed. But yeah, we've got a couple of cards on my desk that are gonna need adjustments this weekend. There's no brush now. So anyway, I don't get it out until Monday. I think it's fine. All right, I'll be back. Morning everybody. It is Saturday morning, December 11th. Yes, I wanted to say September. I don't know why. It is just before 11 a.m. and we are- I forgot my mask. There's, don't worry about it, Dad. Anyway, as you heard, my dad is in the car. As usual, there's Grant. There he is, right there. It's okay. We are on our way to Jenny and Brian's new house to help the kids get moved in today. Grandpa's going to change their locks and yeah, so I think all of their friends and family as a community are getting together today to help them out. So it should be a lot of fun and help them get into their first house, which is always exciting. So anyway, I'll take some footage or account and I will be back. They picked the rainiest, wettest, windiest day so far this year. To do this, that's okay. I'll be back. Guys, we have been home for a little bit from helping the kids out with their new house. I am going to turn off the computer because it's on. I've got a few more awkwash, the Pentel water brushes. They are my favorite water brush. So anyway, I'm going to replenish my drawer. I also have some parts for a video that I need to finish. So I'm going to spread them out. So anyway, because yeah, I need to get the video done. But I'm working on a lot of projects at once. So finding space for stuff is challenging at best. Jenny and Brian picked a really cute new house. I really like the place they got. Ooh, that one might be dry. And I think they just, I'm very proud of them. I think they've done a great job. For those that don't know, Jenny and Brian, we have a sort of adopted into the family. As our other kids, Jenny is a former daycare baby in my old daycare business. And she was my very first daycare baby. And I've known her literally since she was a newborn. So she's an old married lady now, but she's a wonderful human. And she married Brian, who is also a wonderful human. And we love them both very much. So we are happy to help them out how we can. And we love their new place. And yeah, it was a privilege to help them today. Anyway, running out of space again. So I hope you've all had a good week and that you're preparing for Christmas and the holidays and you're gonna have some fun, but safely, that you are making sure that everyone is safe, happy, healthy, vaccinated, boosted, whatever, wearing a mask, all the things. But also just celebrating the holiday and life. And there's always good things about what's going on in life. There's always bad, but there's always good. Anyway, I hope you're having a good one. I hope that you're not getting too stressed out and you're taking care of yourself. Remember that self-care, it's so important. Anyway, go out and have a great week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you in the next video. Bye, guys.