 I would say good morning everybody, only it's lunchtime. Or probably after lunch by now, it's probably about 12.30. Those are the woods next to my house, by the way. Anyway, we're moving cars around because we're gonna take Bob's Barracuda out. He's laughing and smiling, I'm not sure why. That you're documenting it. Yeah, so we're gonna take the Barracuda out. He has a 1973 Plymouth Barracuda FYI. I need to do a piece of artwork inspired by the Barracuda for which I need reference photos for his office. Plus, he wants some pictures of the car for the car's Instagram. Yes, the car has an Instagram. That's the car. Anyway, it'll take a bit to get it started and warmed up because she's old. Anyway, we're gonna go get that done and I'll be back. I think it's started eventually. It is Monday morning, May 23rd. I don't know if it's ever a good start to a Monday when you have to make an appointment for a mammogram and call about a bill for somebody else and then hear from the receptionist who answers the phone that one, they have a two-office manager, a two-office manager, a new office manager and two, that they've been having trouble with the old management, not sending bills out to the insurance companies for at least the last six months, which might explain why we got this random bill in the mail, but it literally had no explanation on it. I think this is a good start to a Monday. All right, on to the next thing. Work meetings. This is the first time in quite a while I've been out here like this. No jacket, no sleeves. Yeah, it is a very warm spring day. And I'm not... Yeah, it's 72, I'm not mad about it. So anyway, all right, we're gonna go get some steps in and see what we can see and I'll be back. Spring where we live in Oregon. That is not pillow stuffing. And it's not snow. It's not snow. It's cottonwood fluff from all the trees. Makes me wanna itch myself crazy and cough just looking at it. It's all over the place. But I've used up all my cough drops. Let's see if there's any ducks. There's ducks here. There is a boy and a girl. Of course, now they went behind the bushes. Or I can barely see them. They're there. Gotta love the ducks. Nope, I don't know where he went. He came this way. Yeah. Raccoons and things cross our driveway. Nearly every night, including coyotes and things, which I don't come out here to look for because they're coyotes. But I'm really curious where the raccoons are going because we never see them. The coyotes, they just like park themselves in the driveway and look around for probably a cat or something, I don't know. Sometimes they poop in our driveway. Yeah, sometimes they poop in the driveway. We don't know what the raccoons are after or where they go. No idea. That thing's growing. It's grown a lot. I did a new bush and you can't see it because it's dark out, but it's already huge. It's just bigger. Hold on, it was like maybe half the size when we bought it like two weeks ago. Yeah. Still no idea where the raccoons are going. No clue. We're just, you know, it's a curiosity thing. We've been here four years. Happens all the time. Freaking raccoons, but I don't know where they're going. And those, huh? Yeah, it's too dark and those little suckers are fast. So anyway. Good morning. But it's afternoon. It is Tuesday, May 24th. It is what time is it? 1.29 PM, I know. I have spent the morning painting. So I'm also like listening to the Johnny Depp Amber Heard Trail because it's kind of like a soap opera and so like it's fascinating. Anyway, I have been doing car paintings lately. If you haven't followed my painting journeys recently, I don't know why, but there it is. I've done, I started just doing them in my journal and then I did one for a gift for the Sunday Law for his birthday. My husband said, oh, that's cool. You should do one of my, he has a 1973 Barracuda. If you don't know, should do one of my car. I'll hang it in my office. Anyway, I wasn't going to do it today, but I ended up doing it today, having everything ready and yeah. So anyway, how's your day? Tomorrow I think is going to be an errand's day, but I'm going to clean up my mess and I don't know what I'm going to do with that exactly. That's the palette of colors I used on this painting, mostly Daniel Smith colors. And yeah, I'll clean up my mess and we'll take it from there. I'll be back. Yeah, these are the two little dogs that we sometimes see here playing in their yard, Betty and Gypsy. So you can tell they're spring, somebody spelled their names out in rocks, but the puppies must be in. We're headed out for a walk because you know, gotta get the steps in. Before you get in. Before you get in, yeah. All right, I'll be back. It's a good walk, but I do have to say, where'd the sign go? Yesterday we were out here walking sweat and buckets. In the ocean, I'd brought a bottle of water in my tank top. Today it's overcast, it's been rainy and I've got my jacket on. And this, yeah, what the? WTF. I am trying to curb my foul mouth, you know. Holy cow. All right, we're gonna get the rest of the walk down. I'll be back. It's 10, 18 a.m. Wednesday, May, something, 25th, I think. Anyway, I gotta go check the P.O. box. I need to go run a couple of quick errands. Not gonna do a lot of like grocery shopping or anything because Bob has Friday off. So we will go do that then because I hate doing it and I'd rather do it together than do it by myself. But that being said, we do need a couple of things for dinner tonight. So I'm out of salad. I eat salad a lot on Friday. Almost every day. I'm out of salad, so anyway. Hi guys. I can't even see you because the light is so bright. Guess that's better than yesterday. Anyway, it's been a crazy eventful day. I got a whole bunch of watercolor sketches done in my journal. We'll get posted to patrons and supporters first. Holy cow, this is overgrown. And look, you'll all see them, but in a few days. If you follow me on social media. So anyway, we also have a couple of different appointments tomorrow, including I have counseling. And then we found out our new couch is here. So, and it's coming on Friday. And then we're having like a bunch of family over for dinner Friday night. It is gonna be, I think by Saturday, I'm gonna wanna just sit on the couch unplugged. I don't know. It's gonna be a crazy weekend, crazy week. Anyway, so then we'll be rearranging the furniture in the living room, deciding if we need to buy new end tables, maybe doing that on Saturday along with grocery shopping, which we were gonna do Friday. But yeah, it's gonna be insane. It's 9, 13 a.m. Thursday, May 26th. I almost said March. I am headed to the grocery store. Our friend and cleaning lady is at the house working Bob's upstairs in this office. Also working. And later I have a counseling appointment. It's gonna be a busy couple of days coming up. I have to go run to the grocery store. Tomorrow our sofa gets delivered. After Letty leaves, I need to start clearing a few things in the living room. We're also having, of course, family dinner night tomorrow night and I need to go get some stuff for that. I'm just gonna get stuff for that. We'll do our regular weekly shopping after the crazy ensigness is over. Let's go see if we can get it done as timely as possible. I'll be back. Christmasotic Lodge meeting. The house has been cleaned. Letty, we love you. I can't, with my asthma, do the cleaning as much anymore. So she is a godsend. It really is May, but I mean, I do call Oregon the land of much water. When Bob gets back, we'll finish getting the house ready for the delivery of the new sofa tomorrow. Let's hope it doesn't rain and that they will agree for a few extra bucks to help us move these out into the garage. Let's hope. All right, I'm gonna watch some YouTube. I'll be back on May 27th, 8.20 a.m. And it's gonna be as crazy a day as I thought it was gonna be. So last night, Bob did not get to go to his lodge meeting because halfway there, my Subaru's low pressure light for one of the tires came on. So I guess we have a slow leak in one of the tires. He was worried about getting stuck somewhere in the middle of the night, not being able to get help anyway. So he just turned around and came home. Anyway, and we also, since you got home early, I had helped to take the living room apart. And I've shown you all this view before, but yeah. So those two sofas are going to the children's house this weekend and we're getting a new sofa this morning. Hopefully the delivery guys will, for a couple of extra bucks, help us move those two sofas into the garage. Husband's moving cars around right now. After the sofa comes, he's gonna pull the Subaru up, fill the tire up with air enough that he can get it to the tire shop. It's gonna be a busy, crazy day. Plus we're having all the children over and Polly's parents for dinner. Be a nutty day, I'll be back. Outches are out. The guys helped us move them into the garage and the new ones are being unpacked. Cross your fingers, we like what we ordered because you know, that's a thing. I know, right? We could just leave it like this. It's huge, good to have a dance in here. Dance party. Yeah, that's just from the felt feet. There's another spot right there. It is about 10 a.m. Saturday, May 28th. Yes, I almost said March again, cause it's a thing. Anyway, we are just hanging around the house this morning before we go run errands because the son-in-law and his father are making trips back and forth from here to their house. The old sofas are going to their house because theirs, I think I've said before on camera, the one they had is horrible. Polly's hates it. It's hard as a rock. It's very uncomfortable. And despite the fact that our sofas, the old ones are very 1980s in appearance and fabric, they're super comfortable. And I think they're gonna just throw blankets over them until they either recover them or get something different. But anyway, they're a really good quality sofas and super comfortable, so they're going to their house. I think they're a little big for their house, so I kinda wish that we had a camera over there right now to see them trying to get the sofas into the house and what it looks like. And if I can message the daughter and talk her into filming a little something, I'll include it here. I'll be back. In the meantime, you just saw the video and or pictures from my daughter from their house featuring the old sofas and them rearranging them a couple of different times, trying to figure out how to fit them in the house. To be fair, those sofas are really big. Our new sofas bigger, but they're big. They're like 44 inches deep and they're long. The one is heat long, very long. I think one is eight feet long and the other one's like six feet. And their living room is tiny. But they really, really wanted them because they're super comfortable and they're great quality in the last and a long time. They just didn't suit us anymore. So anyway, she was complaining about trying to figure out how they're gonna get them to work in their space and rearranging them. I said, well, good luck, but they're yours. And I don't want them back. So don't bring them back. The dog likes them. The dog loves them. So here's a picture here of Lily already making herself at home. She's like, okay, mom, I like these. I'm gonna lay down. I'm gonna lay down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, we're gonna go off now and go buy a new, or try to buy, try to find a new coffee table. We know what we want, but finding it in stock anywhere is gonna, I think, be a challenge because hello, supply chain's still broken, so. But we'll see. So let's go see what we can find and I'll be back. Five furniture stores or six? Well, we've been to a mall, which we walked around the mall. We've been to Target, Macy's. Quark furniture, Broadway furniture. A lot of places. Nobody has what we're looking for. That's kind of what we expected to be fair. So we're gonna head to Fred Meyer. They do have a few furniture pieces there. I doubt they have what we want, but we will look while we're there. Mainly we're gonna just get groceries and then I think we're gonna have to go home and order what we want because, yeah. As per usual, we're looking for something specific and nobody carries it. So, you know, not surprised. I'll be back. I'll be shopping done and we did not find a coffee table, but we knew what we wanted. We'd seen something similar online, so we came home, checked a few listings and ordered it. I'll put the link down below for the coffee table we ordered. What do you think? It's just a small little table because that's what the space we have and we didn't wanna clutter up the living room with a big giant piece of furniture, so. Anyway, it's kind of rainy and the front gutters are clogged again. And we came home and the water was just pouring out every which way. So, Bob is getting out the big scary ladder and I need to hold it for him and make sure he doesn't fall off while he cleans it out really quick. And then maybe I can catch up on yesterday's and today's drawing because I haven't done any of that. Maybe. All right, I'll be back. Maybe it's Sunday morning, it's just before 10 o'clock and yes, I forgot to close the vlog again last night. Anyway, it's been a crazy week between new sofa deliveries and screws and my tire of my car and family dinners with more people than usual. It's all good, mind you, it's just been a week. So anyway, I hope you've all had a great week. I have an idea for another Emotional Art Therapy piece which I will hopefully be filming soon. I'm gonna start gathering supplies for it out of the closet today using what I have. I also want to mount one piece that I did on poster board a while back. I'll put a picture here onto foam core. So I need it. Next time I go out, I need to grab some foam core. And a lot of windows. Bob's not gonna like that. Anyway, and then my secret project is with people having to look for me and we'll continue working on that. It's gonna be a long process, but anyway. And at some point, I'm gonna start working again on the Etsy shop, because sales have kind of died. Yes, I have an Etsy shop. Yes, I'm a rubber stampin' art foamy designer and I also have my own line of stencils. So check out the video description and the link to the list of links. Anyway, it looks like it's gonna rain today, but if it does clear up, we'll go for a walk. But that'll be in next week's vlog. We hope you've all had a good one and that you stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Leave any questions, comments, or concerns down below or tag me in a post over on Facebook. And go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you do deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye, guys.