 Happy Sunday morning everybody! It's just before 10 a.m. and I started off the day with a nice long sit on the new sofa with my coffee and I'm not mad about it. But then I realized I forgot to close the vlog so we did that. You know, it's always something around here. Anyway I've got to shred some junk mail, turn on the computer, check the YouTube comments and all of that stuff. I know we want to try to go for a walk today in between rainstorms but past that I have no idea what we're going to do. So we'll see. Wow, the neighbor's yard's very overgrown. Anyway, you know, shredder. Anyway, I also, as I stated in last week's vlog, I'm going to pull some parts for a new emotional art therapy piece and see what I have that I can use that I already own to create the piece that I'm thinking about. I also, this week, need to finish this painting over here which has a nice base on it but it definitely needs some contrast. It needs some highlights and some low lights in the painting or what I call low lights. Shadows to really make the image and movement pop because yeah, it doesn't have that and it needs it. So those are the two things on the project list this week. So anyway, I guess I better get to it. I'll be back. Being couch potatoes and go get some steps in while some blue sky is trying to come out. Yeah, so I'm gonna go see what we can see. We'll be back. At first we thought there were no ducks but a small group of them and it looks like they're all taking all the boys. The girls are probably out working feeding the ducklings but the boys are wrapping. Good morning. I don't know if I've said that yet, have I? It is Monday morning Memorial Day May 30th, I think. Hold on. I'm pretty sure it's the 30th of May. I know it's Monday morning. Yeah, the 30th of May. It is Memorial Day here in the U.S. and it is just before lunch. We're going to go be spending lunch at the Children's House at Rebekah and Paulius and we're just gonna go over there in about an hour. We're just here doing some chores and stuff before we do that. I was editing the vlog upstairs. Bob was trying to sand some old art boards for me that I didn't like the way they turned out but the mediums I used on it were just not sandable and they were gummy and the boards weren't very expensive and it would cost more to get chemical stripper and so anyway he said just buy new boards. He never says that you guys so anyway we had hazel but it's just after lunch by like five minutes but anyway it is Tuesday May 31st again just after lunch. It's been an interesting morning already. I started the morning with trying to fill the bird feeders up and got a bug which I was hoping was a fly in the house and not a bee. We do get lots of giant bumblebees in the neighborhood and anyway it was a fly which are also giant and because our part of our house is two-story open concept it's a challenge to get them out of the house and or catch them to kill them if that's your option. Anyway I did manage it but it took a few minutes. I thought it was going crazy at first because I was like do I am I hearing what I think I'm hearing but anyway getting ready for some more art for therapy at some point and waiting for supports to come in. In the meantime I think before I have lunch I think I'm going to work some more on this canvas here this morning. I mentioned before I thought I needed highlights and shadows to really make it pop. I do like where it's at right now but I think it just needs it needs a little more. These need to be darker the shadows and the abstracted like foliage needs to be there needs to be some pop there so I'm going to mix up some colors. I think I'm going to use fluid acrylic because I'm going to have my baby wipes handy in case I put marks I don't like and or to help blend and I think I'll put clips on so I don't have to wash my hands as much. Anyway let's get that done I'll be back. I have a feeling that Rocky our friendly neighborhood pet squirrel has discovered that I read refit refilled the bird feeder trays. He likes to try to get to them before the birds do. Anyway it's the small things in life you got to be happy about right. All right I'll be back. So you saw me working on this I love the way it turned out it just needed a few shadows and highlights and yeah it's wonderful now I'm really in love with it and now it's going to be time to like redo the inspiration board but not right this second. I have to figure out what that's going to be next but in the meantime I have this other journal where I document things that I do in my life like visiting the Frida Kahlo exhibit recently at the Portland Museum and things like that so I save ephemera and tickets and like I take pictures of nauseam but anyway and then I at some point put them in my journal so I painted some backgrounds so they're drying this one kind of got a little busy but I really love it and so anyway so they're just going to dry sit here and dry and then tomorrow I'll start putting the things in there and I've printed the pictures and I've got all the stuff for the stuff because of the stuff. Yeah anyway so desk is full of that project and now I think though I'm going to go downstairs I'm going to I need to get some more water and I'll sit and play my daily puzzle mind games to keep the old noggin sharp you know while I'm waiting for Bob to have a break between meetings today and we're going to go walking and has a break between meetings with Asia somewhere in Asia I don't know where anyway so we will go do that between meetings but in the meantime I'm going to go sit and have some water and do some tablet stuff downstairs so. Wednesday June 1st 10 31 a.m. it's about an hour later than I intended it to be for me to be out in the car. I've got to go run a couple errands including checking the PO box what's become typical Wednesday errands yet again I've got to do an extra trip to the grocery store because we are going to be having a family at the house a couple different times in the next few days and I need some extra items so we're gonna go get that done um yeah anyway I have no excuse for just having a lazy land this morning but this is what it is so I've been working on catching my journal up upstairs which I'll show you all in a minute and in the meantime our new coffee table came I know it looks very similar to the old one because we did like the old one it just was too tall for the space because it really was an end table um this one's shorter it has wood both on the bottom and the top rather than a basket we've kind of set it up with decor and things that we already had in stock uh or in stock we already had around the house uh including of course some art books on the bottom including Matisse and Rembrandt and the Impressionists and yeah um my favorite things to buy at the thrift shop books anyway so we got that together and done all right so now I can go upstairs and check on another order that we placed which includes something for my dad and I don't know if it's going to be in before he gets here tomorrow but we'll see and finished my journal so okay for a few years now I've kept some sort of journal that comprises cards and receipts and brochures and pictures of things that I do in my life during the year and I've done it for quite a while now in different forms I used to do sort of a scrap booking junk journaling binder and then I switched to the small delusions journal which I have a few of them so I'm using them up when I'm done with those I don't know what I'll use but we'll see um anyway um I just see something kind of falling out I'm not sure what that is so I'll have to take a look at that um so anyway so I do pages layouts kind of like this where I put pictures and um receipts and do some writing about what's going on this one was done April 24th 2021 and that was when I got um my first COVID shot and um there's another one celebrating our anniversary and there's just a whole bunch of them so and at some point the journal won't close and yes it looks like this and you can see how many pages are still in there I'm already like that so anyway when we went to um seaside recently for a long weekend I of course kept a lot of things and um I don't always put them all in my journal but this time I put most of them and so I so I did this layout and I taped in the brochures and you know business cards and put pictures and did some writing and then I did this one we had a lot of fun and then this one was when we got by the next weekend when we got back which is the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Portland Art Museum it's traveling the country and the world I think and anyway the kids got me tickets Bob and I tickets for Mother's Day and we went that was so much fun and I picked up this big sort of brochure thing while I was there um and I didn't want to like get rid of it I just taped the whole thing in it which makes the journal really fat but that's you know for some one thing I bought was what that pink note was anyway um so I've had sort of the receipts sort of piling up for a little while now and I pulled out my little pocket printer and I printed the photos and I had some sort of kids restaurant menus that had like word searches on them and stuff and I did some of them and then cut the puzzle out and pasted it and that was kind of fun so anyway yeah it's just you know kind of one more thing to do and um I always have a few leftovers and this time I have some sort of paper that something about was wrapped in which I mean I love the pattern so I'm going to keep that and then when I was stamping one of the backgrounds for one of the pages I had leftover paint on my mark making tools and I had a paper bag from something I bought and so I know so I'll put them over there I also had this brochure leftover with one of Frida's paintings on it so yeah anyway now I'm done now it's time to clean off the table because you know it's not too messy but yeah it's a thing all right I'll be back you all are seeing what I'm seeing it's in all the curb gutters it's flying I don't know if you can see that it's flying in the air but it's flying there this is all that tree schmutz that's to use one of my husband's words schmutz it's everywhere it looks like it's snowing but trust me it's not snowing makes me want to cough and it's just looking at it let's go see what it's like by the duck pond I can tell you right now it looks like it's snowed over there hold on come on with me good lord look at all of this it's not snow I swear it's like in the mid 70s right now holy cow could stuff a pillow or 20 it's everywhere I do think there's ducks in the pond yes there is good morning everybody I don't think I vlog yet today it's just after 11 o'clock on Thursday June 2nd I think I just got out of counseling you know it's needed but difficult it's helping though it's helping a lot so anyway if you're struggling with your mental health I definitely would recommend seeing some mental health professionals start with your GP and oh yay yesterday's mail finally came start with your GP and then go from there but talk to somebody all right I'll try to include a link to a website that I think might be helpful in here in the US down below if you have a website for the country that you live that you'd like to send me the link you can do that and I will add it to the video description so anyway all right I'm gonna go chill for a little bit and then have some lunch after I open yesterday's mail which finally came um and then we'll take it from there if my dad is driving up today he's spending the night tonight Rebecca's gonna come over and the four of us will have dinner I'll take him to the airport tomorrow he's flying to southern California spend some time with my brother um so this afternoon is going to be kind of busy but we'll see all right I'll be back hello everybody so yes we're out for evening walk it's Thursday my dad is here hi that's Rebecca you know her yes we have derpy dog up there with grandpa it's only Thursday night but we're taking my dad to the airport tomorrow and he's going to California to visit my brother and uh so we had a impromptu family dinner tonight however Rebecca's had a really hard day today where are you putting that it's on the internet youtube it's okay now grandpa you are you've already been on youtube you're on the internet you're already on the internet so it doesn't matter I got stage fright oh you know you're you're just talking to us nobody knows we won't tell him anyway Rebecca had somebody um not watched for oncoming traffic today and her brand new Kia yes like Kia Sorento very lovely yeah needs a whole new front end and they each somewhere between three and five thousand dollars worth of work now it's fine it's all good it's been a tough day for her so we're gonna go for a little walk and then I'll fix it by giving her cookies because you know cookies help everything don't they that's what I think so hey guys it is june 3rd just before 9 a.m we are going to be taking my dad to the airport in about an hour and then we have the rest of the day to ourselves we are putting off family dinner night Rebecca had a really bad day yesterday uh I think I mentioned she had a fender bender with somebody who uh violated her right away it was their fault anyway she's okay but her brand new Kia's yeah not okay so anyway she's exhausted Polyas is getting from back from California tonight the other kids are exhausted everybody's just like working hard and over time and you know the world's getting back to its thing but they're all exhausted getting back to normal so anyway that's okay we're gonna take a break and my sister comes into town Saturday evening she's gonna be here for a few days we'll discuss some upcoming travel plans with her and stuff I'm sure I'll get her on camera at some point although she's a little camera shy anyway uh yeah it's just a nice quiet morning can't say I'm mad about it Bob and I are gonna go I don't know do something this afternoon we've got to run a couple of errands we might try to go do something fun I don't know we'll take you with us if we do though I'll be back all right so we we're out walking the neighborhood uh in and around the house as per usual and we randomly stopped at an estate sale going on at the neighborhood we leave near an older community and so there's frequently a estate sale unfortunately because people pass away anyway I found a um older model Hitachi bread machine for ten dollars seems to still be working and complete it just needs a good thorough cleaning ten dollars you guys even used on eBay or Etsy or any place that they go for at least 50 minimum so yeah 10 bucks we haven't had a bread machine in a long time it doesn't have the owner's manual so I'll have to download that but that can be done all right now we're in Cook Park and we're gonna go walk around we haven't been here before so gonna see what we can see and I'll be back it's starting to drizzle but we're gonna do a little bit more exploring I do think we should bring the family back here and go for a walk around here this thing is huge and goes all the way down to the Willamette River I don't think we'll make that today but wow it's Saturday evening it's after yeah see it's after seven o'clock I don't know exactly what time it is uh seven thirty nine there you go seven thirty nine we're watching TV we just got finished with dinner I have to do the dishes the ten dollar bread machine I bought made bread I mean we haven't tasted it yet but it smells good anyway we'll see um so that's an interesting new adventure anyway my sister is coming tonight from Utah she's driving and now she'll be here in about an hour or so and she's gonna be spending a few days with us before she goes up north more to see my dad and uh all of that stuff we have more things coming but we're not gonna discuss them right now no it'll be a few weeks anyway um it's been a fun week we've had a good time we went to the mall today we did some shopping we walked around it was fun anyway we will discuss some of that next week and in the meantime I hope you've all had a good one don't forget to like share and subscribe please if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below check out the video description for all the jazz that's in there and maybe Fred and I'll be back with a cooking video soon maybe we haven't done one in a while maybe let me know yeah maybe let me know if you want to see one anyway that's it for now for now stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you next week bye