 or so on Sunday, September 29th, it's Fred's birthday. We took my sister to the airport so she could fly home this morning. And now we're just chilling at home. Fred's checking email. I'm gonna turn my computer on finally for the day. And we're gonna just relax at home and then go out for dinner later with the kids. So I'll bring you with me when I can. I'll be back. Everybody say happy birthday to Fred. Happy birthday, Fred. We're gonna go out for dumplings later. Yes. Dumplings, yeah. Dumplings, what's the name of the place? Din Tai Fung. Din Tai Fung. It's his birthday and this last Monday was our daughter's birthday. So we're gonna go celebrate. Yep, all right, we'll be back. Off today, you hear that? That's Lily, because we created her because we're going OUT. We need to go to the grocery store and stuff. So she's gonna have to stay here. Lily, no! Happy about it. Wait, so we're gonna go do that and run some errands really quick and then come home and just, I guess, hang out with her. We have her until Thursday, so anyway. She's not happy about being in the box. We'll be back. I don't think you're gonna be able to see it unless you're good at finding Waldo. But there's a deer back there. Let's say good morning, everybody, but it's actually evening because I forgot to vlog this morning. Oops. So it's just after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening, October 1st. We've started the new month in my creative year. I got a little bit of business stuff done this morning and some art, but we have Lily being again, so she's a handful. It's like having a couple of toddlers in the house. So anyway, we're gonna take her for an evening walk and try to burn off some energy before we sit down to eat dinner. Maybe. It'll work. We can only hope. All right, I'll be back. We didn't get very far. She did her business, but we're gonna try and, well, burn off some energy still. All right, we'll be back. I don't think there's two of them. He's not a big deal either. She is not a big fan. We are still Lily sitting. She's impatiently waiting over there for me. She, the floor in here is too cold and hard. She'd rather be on the couch with me, but I got shit to do. Anyway, I'm editing the vlog because I didn't get it done yesterday because it's like having a toddler in the house or two. So I just was too busy getting the few things done. I did get done and being with her. Yeah, so it's a thing. Anyway, so I'm getting it done now and I'll load it directly to YouTube live. I won't schedule it out or anything as soon as I get it done. As you'll see in this week's vlog, if you are watching this clip, you're gonna see the other clips. The coyotes have been by a lot this week. I may not include all the clips of them coming by. I may speed them up. I don't know yet until I sit and edit the vlog, but just trust me when I say that since we first saw them the other night, they've been by every day, every night since then. So I'm a little concerned about my neighbors' cats, but they're not my cats. I did send my neighbor a message, an email message. I do believe they're still out of town, but I told them that coyotes, I've seen them. They're in the neighborhood. They're wandering around my driveway. They're looking at your yard and your fence. They're looking for your cats. We also had a raccoon by the other night that looked like he was limping and I think I said in the vlog here already at some point that we heard animals fighting in the woods. If I didn't, we heard animals fighting in the woods when we got home from the celebratory birthday dinner for my husband and our daughter. We thought it was maybe two raccoons fighting in the trees or something. And then a couple of nights later, we saw a raccoon crossing the driveway to the front porch. They like my front porch. I don't know. Anyway, they were crossing and he was limping, aren't she? So I don't know if it was from the fight or the coyotes trying to get it or, I don't know. So I am keeping an eye on Lily. I'm not letting her out alone into the backyard unless she's got to go to the bathroom. And when we go walking with her, we're cautious because we haven't just seen them at night. We've seen them in broad daylight. So that's the thing. And for the moment, I haven't gotten any inspiration journal pages done yet today or a paper clip, but I will do at some point. And right now I'm just trying to get the vlog edited and rendered, which it's rendering right now. And then loaded to YouTube. So once that's done, I can focus on the table. So anyway, that's where we're at today. I'll be back. It's way past time for me to go get the mail, but I did get my inspiration journals done in a paper clip and some paperwork and stuff like that. While I was doing all that, the ring doorbell security system thing kept going off and I just figured it was the cat, you know, Bambi's back. So if I can't go catch some footage of Bambi by the mailbox because they went around the corner towards that way, then I'll put some security footage in next, all right, I'll be back. Lily is so funny. She wants to know why she can't go out and play with Bambi. She's been crying. She sees them out there and she starts crying because she wants to go play with her friends. See, there she is again. She can hear the ring security system go off to the jingling. She knows what that is. She knows that means there's somebody in the front yard or something. Good morning. It is, I almost said Wednesday. It's Thursday, October 3rd, I think. I think it's the 3rd. Pretty sure. Okay, a little bit sure. It's 9.36 a.m. I am getting ready to go, obviously I'm in the car. Gonna go run some errands. We still have Lily. She gets picked up tonight. I really have to go run errands. So she's in the crate. She doesn't like doing that. She doesn't like when people, her people leave her. That's what she doesn't like. She doesn't mind being in the crate. But anyway, she's gonna have to do it because I can't take her to the grocery store. So I need to go to the grocery store, I need to go to Target, I need to drop off Etsy orders, I need to run by the new dentist and drop some paperwork off. Just, it's gotta get done. So I'm gonna go do that really quick and I'll be back. I do want to say to y'all that we've been here in Oregon for a year and we moved from a city of about 2 million to a city of just over 50,000 to say that it's a big adjustment is an understatement and I'm still getting used to it. I just had a stranger driving into the place where I drop off my mail and have my PO box wave at me just for no reason. I'm still getting used to it. All right, I'll be back. The lighting is a little weird, although it's 9.25 a.m. because it is cloudy and overcast in Portland. I live in Portland, so it's that way a lot. In case you haven't noticed, the lighting is weird a lot. Anyway, Lily went home last night and all is quiet here in the house this morning. I got my post done this morning that I need to do. I got some things scheduled out on Facebook. I needed to do that too. And I've had my two cups of coffee. I kind of want a third, but I probably ought not to do that. I have some art things to do. I do have an appointment this afternoon. I've got to take care of, and my mom is waving to me on Facebook. That usually isn't a good sign. Anyway, I've got an appointment this afternoon, so I've got some things I want to get done before I do that. And I think the kids might be coming for dinner tonight, or we might be grabbing a pizza with them or something. I don't know yet. So anyway, I'm gonna go get it done and I'll be back. And by the way, if you're watching this clip, you've seen the clip of the young buck that was by this morning looking for food. So one of the things I want to do this morning is put out some corn for them, because I think the bowl is empty again. All right, I'll be back. Okay, so it's after 12. I think it's about 12.30. I got all the art stuff today done, then I wanted to get done. I have a quick errand to run, and then I have to, I have a meeting appointment at 2.30 with the kids, and I'm just there as backup and support. No, nothing is wrong. I don't want to share what's going on yet until we know for sure it's gonna happen. But anyway, because it is a business sort of a meeting, I probably ought to comb my hair and put on a little makeup, just sort of look like a hag. It's probably a good idea. So I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna go get my errands done and maybe dishes if I'm so motivated before I leave. Maybe. All right, I'll be back. I'm home alone, nothing is on. I'm hearing voices behind me. I'm like, what the frickin' hell? Scared the crap out of me. Frickin' yahoo.com. They're search ads, autoplay ads. Really? Holy cow. Hey guys, it is Saturday, October 5th? Yes. 5th. Ah, got it right. It's a miracle. It's 2.45 p.m. And we haven't been doing anything this morning. We've just been chilling at home and relaxing. It's been kind of a crazy week. And my knee is hurting again, so that's a thing. It's hell getting old. Anyway, we're headed out right now to the library and that kind of thing, just some quick short. Cheap errands, free errands. And yeah, we're gonna have hopefully a good time. It's a nice sunny Portland day. For a change for fall is very different. Usually it's very rainy. So we're gonna enjoy the sunshine while we can and we'll be back. So how cool is this? We're sitting on the little walking pathway that's behind Michael's that we, I've seen every time I come over here and we haven't walked it. I don't know we're gonna get too far today because my knee is hurting, but it is set up to timeline the ice age. Ice age. And they have replicas of dinosaur bones and footprints of mastodons and humans and sloth. So I'm gonna take what pictures I can and we're gonna have to come back when my knee is better because this is cute. I'll be back. That's a mastodon footprint, here's another one. So we just put some books. We got at the library store in the little community library box. Hold on, the car doesn't like the fact I don't have my seat belt on. Anyway, so we put some books. We got at the library. They were 50 cents each. I bought a handful of books and we put them in the community library box by the park where we usually walk. So anyway, we're gonna head home now because it's time for dinner. Oh, prom photos. Anyway, we'll be back. Hey guys, so it is the end of the evening. On Saturday, what day did I say it was? The fifth of October. I think anyway, it's like 10, 38 or something p.m. It's been a long day. It's been a good day, but a long day. I think I said earlier that my knee is bothering me. If I didn't, by the way, I have a brace on my leg. My knee is bothering me. It's nothing serious. I've been doing a lot of walking lately. It's my way of getting exercise. I like walking, but I am not a spring chicken anymore and have tendonitis and arthritis and all my joints and my left knee is periodically not happy with me. So it's nothing. Just resting it a little bit won't cure. Taking some joint supplements, wrapping it with a knee brace that my friend Vicky Brown sent me. Thank you so much, Vicky. And yeah, it'll be good as new, despite the fact that it was hurting. I did a little walking today anyway, as you saw if you're watching this clip. I can't wait till my knee is better and I have something besides flip flops on. That didn't help. And we can go on that walking path. Evidently, it's a very long path that goes all the way around the city. So that would be really fun. Anyway, it's all good and yeah, it's all good. So my niece, the new mom and her baby, she had some minor, well, she had some complications and I won't go into it because it's personal information, but she's doing better and she's home and Paxton is my new great-nephew is doing great. The new little family is just doing wonderful and he's just the cutest little thing on the planet. I'm slowly chugging along, getting projects done. I was designing some stencils earlier and working on a couple of other projects. I think I have a new line of stencils I'm gonna make and I think it's gonna be in conjunction with a series of YouTube videos, tutorials that you don't necessarily have to have the stencils to do, but they would be handy. That's all the hints I'm gonna give you. I also think I came up with a new merch design for some shirts and things in a couple of different colors that I think is funny and snarky and it's rude, but you know, I'm okay with rude. So anyway, I'll be working on that this week too. So look for that in the coming weeks and I think that's it for right now. I'll leave any relevant links in the description below and if there's any questions, comments or concerns, please leave a comment on the video and I will respond to you. I do check my comments every day. If you wanna follow me on social media, shop in my Etsy shop, put something in my PayPal tip jar, shop in my Amazon affiliate store, any of that stuff to support the free content here on YouTube or just follow me on social media, send me happy mail, anything like that. Check out the links and things in the description below because there are ways to do that. 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