 It is 10.53 ish a.m. Sunday, March 20th. Don't get excited. I looked before I turned on the camera. We are taking Nutjob out for a walk. Not Bob, the dog. It's a bit nippy, but it's not an overcast, but it's not raining or anything. It's not actually too bad out. So we're going to go get a walk in before lunch. There's another iOS update, so all the tablets are updating sometimes. Anyway, I think it's just going to be a quiet Sunday at home because we have the dog mostly. It's hard to do stuff other than errands with the dog. You all who have needy pets and or small children to understand. Anyway, all right, we're going to go get some steps in and I'll be back. I think being a couch potato on Sunday has become a thing for us. We seem to go out and either do a whole bunch of errands and or get a whole bunch of walking in, come back, have lunch on Sunday morning afternoon, and then we just seem to not want to do anything else the rest of the day because that's how today has been. I don't think I've vlogged yet today. It is Monday afternoon, 3.32 ish p.m. March 21st. Yeah, I guess I just got busy. I was editing video and getting it loaded and scheduled to YouTube and writing this week's posts and yeah, I still have a few more chores to do and I've got to bring the garbage cans in. Checking the mail first. Anyway, it's a quiet week, no appointments, no must-dos or anything. I think tomorrow I'm going to set Hazel our robot vacuum to do its job in the morning, put a load of laundry in the wash, and then I think I'm going to just go do some fun errands. I need some more Yoohoo glue sticks, so rather than ordering them from Amazon, supposedly my Dick Blick hasn't my stock and I'll go get them from them. Okay, looks like Bill's fun. Anyway, I also have I need more printer ink and there was one more thing I don't know what it is. I better write these things down. I'm going to forget. Anyway, all that she really loves going for a walk with grandma and grandpa. But Grand dog Lily really needs to go to training school or something to learn some manners, I swear to God. She's not mean and vicious. She just gets really excited. Anyway, Bob has his annual Monday night phone call with Vietnam. I should say weekly, not annual. So at seven o'clock, so we are going to go out for a walk real quick before then. It's about five o'clock I think. So anyway, we're going to go get that done before we come home and eat dinner or anything. Hopefully Bob has time to do that before his meeting, otherwise he's eating late. Anyway, we're going to go see what we can see. I'll be back. Good morning. It is 10.48. The clock says 9.48. Is that the right time? Hold on. The clock, because that is the right time. Anyway, it is Tuesday, March 22nd, I think. 20 seconds and I'm super organized as you can tell. And also my hair is just like in my way today, obviously, because you can see I've got it pulled back. Anyway, we are going to go run some errands. Oops, got to readjust everything. We've discussed this. There's a big height disparity between my husband and myself. So when he's been driving the car, I have to readjust everything. And the other way around, he can barely get in after I've been driving. So anyway, all right, we're going to go run a few errands. I've got just random, lots of randomness. I've got to go to Target, maybe Staples if they don't have one of the couple things I need at Target. I need a printer ink and I'm not sure they carry the kind of ink that we use for our printer at Target, but we'll find out. I also need to go to Dick Blick because I'm looking for, I need more glue sticks and I'm really not wanting to order them on Amazon. And I need a bigger basket for the dog toys, which I'm going to get at Target. So anyway, we're going to go run some errands. I'm going to bring you with me. I'll be back. That's fun. Yes, I've changed my jacket. Adopted daughter and her husband have already had COVID. At least we're pretty sure that's what it was because they were pretty sick. Now, birth daughter definitely has COVID. She tested positive this morning. So I don't think we've been exposed, but we'll be being cautious. I'm supposed to do stuff with adopted daughter on Friday for her birthday. Hopefully that goes through, but I guess we'll see. Good morning, everybody. It's about 9.30 AM Wednesday, March something, March 23rd. It's actually 9.39 AM. I'm a little bit unfocused this morning. It's the best way I know how to describe it. I'm focused. Anyway, I don't know where to start. I think I'm going to work on the easel a little bit because we're still working on the light situation. It's a little hard to work on the table. There's too many shadows for one thing despite the other lights in the room. But I think I can work on this on the easel. My sky all done. And now I'm going to work on some more of the painting. I think I couldn't leave it before because it wasn't quite right. Now that's better. I like that better. Okay, as I thought, we're out for a walk between meetings. Today, Bob is talking to India. That's what he said. Yes, India. So anyway, we're going to head back to the house now. Hopefully we can make him some dinner really quick. Shove some food in his face before he has to go to the meeting. Anyway, all right, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is 10.04 a.m. March 24th, Wednesday, Wednesday, I think Wednesday. Anyway, so I started off this morning by coffee dyeing the magnetic frame pieces for the piece of canvas I'm currently working on. Is it going to get as dark as I want? I don't know. But it is darker than it was. And I mean, you know, we'll see what happens. I might do, you know, quite a few coats of coffee on there before I get what I'm kind of looking for. But we'll see. Anyway, the canvas is dry. It's dry. So we're going to probably do some more work on that today. I really like the way where it's going. And it's at one of those points frequently with I find with a lot of work that I do where I know it needs more, but I'm afraid to do anything more to it to mess it up. I know you all know what I mean. It's not Wednesday. It's Thursday. Jesus Christ. Something's never changed. I'll be back. Can't believe I got a painting done. I think that's the first big piece I've gotten done since I started this whole journey with my anxiety. Can't say I'm too mad about it. Anyway, while it didn't turn out how I expected it to, I do love the way it did turn out. So there's that. Anyway, I'm going to go check the mailbox and then sit and do some more drawing while I watch some YouTube. All right, I'll be back. Why am I not surprised the mail's not here yet? To think I'll be back. You're so funny. I don't know, but she's usually not far behind. Oh, there she is. Back there. He's up there going. I ain't gonna go swimming. I'm hungry. Hey guys, it is 12.03 in the afternoon, Friday, March 25th. Adopted daughter, Jenny's birthday. Happy birthday, Jenny. Anyway, I am made up. I am going to go pick Jenny up for her birthday. We're going out to go get Manny Petty's and then keep her out of her house for a couple of hours. So her husband, Brian, can get ready for a surprise for her birthday, which he's taken care of. And then it's just for the two of them anyway. And then I'm going to come home. I think Bob and I have exciting stuff to do grocery shopping. But I think we're also going to go out to dinner. So we might try Cracker Barrel, which is probably like Denny's, but we've never been there. So I don't know. We'll, you know, we'll try it once and see what happens. Anyway, I have gifts for Jenny. And then there's another one back there for Rebecca, our daughter, who I don't know if I've said yet in the vlog. She came home from California with COVID. So I'm going to leave a get well soon thing on her porch for her, um, part of which I have to go to the store to go get. So I'm going to leave in about, I don't know, 20 minutes or so and go do all of that and then head towards Jenny's house. So yeah, I've already gotten some paperwork and stuff done upstairs. Bob is, he's nearing his max capacity on PTO time off for work. And so he's been told he needs to take more time off. So we're planning some stuff for that and a road trip maybe, which might include my dad. So that would be fun. So anyway, we'll see a lot of stuff going on, you know, pretty usual. I'll be back. Guys. All right. So it is for something time 4 36. 4 36 spent a great few hours with adopted daughter Jenny. We got our nails done. I of course got black. I usually get my toes done. I haven't had my nails done in a long time, but I love the color. So anyway, we did some shopping. I bought a couple things I didn't really need, but I, anyway, she got some stuff and it was a lot of fun. And I am going to go home now. Bob and I are going to go out to dinner and then we'll go do some late night grocery shopping so that we don't have to do it tomorrow and so that we can just relax and sort of feel like I'm running in the dirt. Hang on so that we can just sort of relax and go do something fun tomorrow. We might go do some estate sales shopping and stuff like that. So their driveway is interesting. They have a shared road way thing with their neighbors. And I have the hardest time backing up out of it. Anyway, he's coming. Okay, so anyway, we are going to go home and hopefully by the time we get there, the husband will be done with work and we can get the show on the road with the rest of our day. I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It is 10.25 a.m. Saturday, March 26th. Right? Never positive, but you all know that already. So number one, daughter Rebecca has COVID. If I didn't say so yet, I think I did say already though anyway. They have a fever, doesn't have a sore throat or any that, but she is very congested and feels like she has a really bad cold. So and she's lost her sense of taste. Yeah, so everybody send out some good vibes. It doesn't get any worse than that and then she gets better. But yeah, so we haven't seen them in about 10 days because she got sick. Garage sailing and estate sailing this morning and then we're going to stop and we are out for a walk and there's this one house in the neighborhood. She feeds the ducks a lot so they're in her front yard a lot looking for food as they are today. Lunch? Lunch. Food. They're looking for food. Okay, so we're up here playing with the ceiling fans, trying to fix the yellow light. We got an LED bulb. We were thinking we were going to have to bypass the ballast in the fixture to get the bulb to work and not flicker. There doesn't appear to be a ballast and when Bob put the bulb in it didn't flicker. Cross your fingers. You guys, you don't know how big a deal is for me. Since we bought the house and we moved in and started putting art supplies in this room that yellow light has driven me up the wall. Just ask Bob. I drove, I've driven him crazy about it. If this works, I'm going to be so happy. Guys, no more yellow light. Yay! I'm so happy. Yes, thank you dear. You're welcome. Hey guys, it is almost 11 o'clock and Saturday and it's just been a good week and it's been a good day. We did some estate sales shopping. I got some really great old puzzles. I'm a puzzle freak. I do love puzzles. Some of them are from the 1930s. I will put a picture here somewhere. So I can't wait to do those. Hopefully all the pieces are there but you never know. It's a crapshoot. Bob fixed my light. It's not yellow anymore. I can't tell you how happy I am to have a daylight LED bulb in that fixture now. So anyway, it turned out to be much easier than we thought. We were going to have to like rewire stuff and we didn't. I'm so happy anyway. It's been a good day. We were supposed to go to a car show thing with the kids tomorrow but seeing as how daughter has COVID, even though son-in-law tests negative, we don't feel comfortable with that. So we're staying home. Which is good because we have something else Bob kind of wanted to do anyway but we'll talk about that in next week's vlog. Anyway, I'm going to go to bed. It's been a great week. I can't wait to sit and do some sketching tomorrow at the desk with a new light. Yay. All right. But again, next week's vlog. It's been a good week. Please stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Check out the video description for all the relevant links. Join my Patreon for ways to support the free content here on YouTube or shop in my Etsy shop. Yeah, I've still got some stuff over there. I'm trying to clear it out. So get it while it lasts. Anyway, checking that out. Leave any comments or questions you might have below. 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