 I'm not sure I turned the camera on yet today, but we spent the morning just puttering around the house. I wound up some more balls of yarn, got another project ready. Not that I'm finished with the one I'm working on yet or anything and don't have another one lined up after that already, but you know. I paid bills. He paid bills. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to go drop off an Amazon return and if I can, I'm going to talk him into stopping by the yarn shop and pick up a couple miniskains to add to my collection and just kind of putter around and go find some place to go get some steps in and then later on we'll be headed over heading over to the airport late tonight, later tonight to go pick up my father and there's a configuration convention of people at the end of the street. I'm a configuration convention. I don't know. Anyway, we'll be back. So we stopped at Four Yarnsake. They are a local little yarn shop. I will link their website down below. They do have one and they do do mail order. They have pretty good deals on natural fiber yarns and I just went in to get some miniskains. These were eight dollars and twenty five cents each and they are by dream and color and these are smooshy minis and they're 100 yards each and they're 50. Let's see. I don't know my reading glasses on. I know I'm not smart. 85 percent Superwash, Merino and 15 percent nylon and they're really fun to work with. They are on the thin side for crocheters but I do usually pair them up with something else and I got these ones. So it's within the budget right now to add to the collection. So I did, you know, like when I first bought a lot of my watercolor paints. I had a budget and I would go in with like 20 dollars or 30 dollars to the art supply store and sometimes only come out with two tubes of paint but that's how I added to my collection. So this is what we have at the moment. Obviously, I was into the greens today. I don't know why but anyway we're going to go stop at the mall and not because we need to buy anything but just to walk around and see what we can see and all of that stuff. Get some steps in. So anyway, all right that's it for the minute and yeah we're in the truck because we like driving the truck. Why wouldn't we? I'll be back. Guys it is Monday afternoon. I haven't vlogged before now because just because dad went home this morning after breakfast and he got home just fine. He's probably on the way to Seattle airport right now because one of my nieces and her wife went with him to Italy and my sister and her and her husband and like all that stuff and they are flying in tonight. I think they land at like 430 or something which is like an hour and a half anyway because it's just before three. I've been crocheting all day and working on my sweater coming along very nicely. I also got the 2024 calendar for downstairs set up and that's ready to go. I am now getting ready to edit the vlog because that's gotta be done and we all know how much I love editing yeah. Anyway let's get to it. It's not gonna do itself. I'll be back. The vlog is edited and saving at the moment and as soon as that's done I'll get it uploaded and I'm gonna go back to watching YouTube and crocheting while that's happening. It's a computer. Anyway so yeah it's all good. I'll be back. So it's with. Hey guys I've got my blanket coat I made a few months back on. I've got some reflective straps on. We call them the squish me straps as in please don't squish me while I'm walking in the dark. Mr. Bob's got his on too. We're gonna go for a quick walk before we have dinner and yeah my arms are sore not from crocheting my shoulders from picking up junior. I think he's like 20 I say 25 pounds but I actually think he weighs more than that. His dad said something like 27 pounds so anyway yeah all right I'll be back. Good morning everybody it is Wednesday I almost said September. I think it's the 8th of November and it is 11 20 a.m. I'm like an hour or so behind leaving the house to get Erin's run than anticipated. You know stuff happens sometimes right and I'm of an age that you know sometimes the best thing I can do for myself in the morning is not rush sit have my coffee take some Tylenol arthritis and let it kick in before I leave the house especially after a day where I've been babysitting little junior and yeah so anyway this morning I woke up and my hip joints were bothering me so Tylenol arthritis yes anyway I don't like to take pain pills fun fact I really don't take them often at all and I usually live with the pain unless it's bad enough that I just can't so yeah anyway if it inhibits me from getting up into the art room that's an I just can't so I take a pill anyway that was a joke anyway we're going to go get some gas and then we're going to run some errands I've got to check the PO box by the way if y'all want to send me some happy mail or products to try or anything else I do have a PO box the address is down in the video description so yeah anyway I'm going to go check it and I'm going to go pick up some things for family dinner night I think I'm going to just do it today rather than having to go out again on Friday I'm running low on oat milk again so I'm going to go get some of that yeah so everybody has discovered I have oat milk in fridge all the time my dad's lactose intolerance so when he's down he'll try oat milk and like his oatmeal and stuff and Jenny adopted daughter Jenny will have it in her coffee when she's in town or at my house and yeah so just plus I'd like to drink coffee and when Bob was gone I drank too much coffee so yeah so I need just about 6 30 p.m and when I was out earlier today running errands I had no idea we were having extra company for dinner on Friday so we are adopted son Brian's dad and his partner are going to be here great but we need a couple extra things for that so the rest of my day was spent as you can hear doing chores working on the last load of laundry dishes are working and working on my sweater and so my goal is to finish the ribbing around the bottom tonight and then hopefully sometime between tonight and Friday night I can fit I can get the sleeves done that would be amazing or at least by Monday yeah because I'd like to start on the next thing but I'd also like to wear the sweater so there's that anyway and I don't think I told you guys that I was looking for a denim dress to add to my wardrobe and I just really didn't want to buy anything new I thought I must be able to thrift something it might be the wrong time of year for that but I did stop at Goodwill and Value Village on the way out and I found something right away at Goodwill it's going to need some altering it's a couple sizes too big for me but I don't want it super tight anyway but yeah it's going to work out just great when it's done so anyway Mr Bob and I are going to go run to Safeway and I'll be back in my closet again because this is where the good full length mirror is but I'm working on my sweater tonight after junior went home we babysat a kill horse again today and family dinner is tomorrow so I wasn't sure when I was going to have time to work on the sweater and my goal is really to get it done if I can get it done tonight I will and I might be able to do that Mr's at his Masonic Lodge meeting and yeah so and I'm so excited I got one sleeve done you guys I just have one more sleeve to go it is so cute oh my gosh I love this pattern so much I'm going to be making myself more sweaters out of it this is sweater number two but anyway hang on let me turn the oh excuse me wow a chill let me turn the camera around so that you can get a better shot hold on here we go this is the next version of this sweater oops round yoke sweater pattern helps if I actually show you the picture I'm just so happy with the sweater and how it's turning out I am again doing it with short sleeves I am making notes this time because obviously I'm going to use this pattern again I really do like the short sleeves that doesn't mean I won't ever make it with long but I like the short and yeah so cute what do you all think all right I'll be back so happy without coming out I said that already haven't I um okay so time to not leave it in here in the bedroom sorry lights are out um and finish the other sleeve while I watch weird YouTube I don't I just put things on in the background podcast or something and I just listen stuff I can listen to while I concentrate on this all right let's get to it it's about 10 30 a little echoey because we're in the bathroom in my the master bathroom anyway um it's about 10 30 ish Bob is on his way home from his meeting it's done yay I'm so happy I like it so much okay hold on let me put it on what do you think I really like it now I just have my babysitting pants on and babysitting hair but this is cute so moved on its own I swear I didn't touch it anyway I really like this yes I will be making more of them what do you all think hey guys um it is 3 39 p.m Friday November 10th don't get excited the iPad's in front of me spent the morning catching up on some chores and relaxing because my arthritis is bothering me of course I'm of an age I have arthritis all over the place funny enough not my hands my hands aren't bothering me my hips my knee my back um partly arthritis partly babysitting junior so you know I'm just taking it easy today it is family dinner night tonight um I am working on a hat with some of the leftover yarn for my sweater I finished yesterday and I've paired it with some white wool uh let's see the colored yarn is by Madeline Tosh and the color is what's up beach and they have it in twist light and also um superwash merino and I have happened to have that color in both so I did the sweater in the twist light because that is a it's at one yarn it's very thin and it's got nylon and it's not a hundred percent wool um because it's probably supposed to be for socks it's not what I made with it um but it would be really good on a sweater because nice and stretchy right but I do have one ball of the merino so I'm making myself a really cute hat with it and I paired it up to bulk it up because it also is a thin yarn I paired it with cascade 220 which is a before I say yep 100 percent Peruvian Highland wool and um I love it and the two together look great and I'm almost done with the hat so um yeah so anyway I'm gonna just um spend a little bit more time up here working on this and then I do need to manage my way down the stairs and go start getting ready for dinner so you know I'll be back I'm always back all right I'll be back good morning it's about 9 15 a.m on Saturday November 11th I think um Bob is off at the Masonic Center here in Oregon and he's helping with some repairs and um I'm not sure if he's doing electrical or they're painting or I don't know anyway I have most of the data myself so although it is stormy and windy outside I am going to go around a couple of crafty errands so I need some yarn for some particular projects and I want to make myself a pair of gloves I need some more white wool though and also I want to work on a project for Christmas for somebody so I need yarn for that um it does require it going to two different places to get the best deal but that's okay and um I do have a coupon for the thrift store but I'm not sure I'm going to go there or not so we'll see anyway let's get some shoes on and let's get to it I'll be back we're back um so I went to um Joanne's fabrics and I went to the one a little bit farther away of Beaverton um because I knew they were having yarn on sale I knew I wanted to get some special yarn for a Christmas gift I did walk out with extra yarn but not too much um they had Lion Brown yarn buy two get one free I think it was what the sale was so I got three skeins of Fisherman's wool and this really pretty like tan color and then three skeins of wool ease in that color it's not pretty that's for the Christmas gift and then um it was you know doing really well I thought controlling myself then I went to craft warehouse because I needed one skein of um yarn to finish a project I'm working on for myself I needed some can't cascade 220 wool and I got this super wash just because it's a similar color wool to the regular 220 on the hank um similar thickness I'm gonna pair it up with something else so if it's it is a little bit thinner but it's not going to make any difference um but I don't have to wind it in a ball I'm lazy anyway it's a really good thing I I only came out with one because I didn't even know until I was checking out that it was 40% off it was so hard not to go back and buy more wool but I didn't anyway we are home now and I am going to sort out some of the leftovers from last night and put some of the meat extra meat in the freezer and I need to empty the dishwasher you know do chores before I sit down and work on projects I'll be back done for the day I've been crushing all afternoon um when we went out today I um I did you know y'all know I went to Joanne's first and I specifically wanted to get some yarn for a Christmas gift we're doing secret sannas this year and um the girl's all exchanged names and the boy's all exchanged names so the girl I got I wanted to make her something so I found uh Lion Brand Woolies Ferrile I have to tell you all I am kind of in love with this yarn I love the colorway um I got three of them in the same this one you can see the blue is not buried in the middle there's a little tiny bit of blue reminds me of like cloudy stormy sky days um and I already finished this is what's left over out of ball two I did get three because they were buy two get one free I probably have enough to make myself a beanie or a scarf or something so not mad about that but the gift is done um and I also picked up a yarn I've been hearing about and I've known about it but I haven't picked it up but I got some now I got enough to do probably a sweater Lion Brand Fisherman's wool I haven't gotten it before now because I just thought it just only came in you know the standard cream colored sheep color um but I found this tan color that I really liked it doesn't come in a lot of colors but this one was pretty nice it would be a nice yarn to do uh maybe try some fancy stitches I'm not great at that but maybe I also realized I probably have just enough blanket yarn to do a bee for adopted daughter Jenny she really loves my giant bee on the garumi downstairs so she would like one so I'm gonna make her one uh and let's go look at the Christmas gift because it's done it's called a mood snood and I will link it down below I have made it once before for myself and it's a really great circular scarf and the person I made it more I think four I think is gonna really like it and the colors let me take it off I'll show you what the colors look like I mean what's my hair gonna get messy or hello but the colors in that yarn that ferret look at that I didn't do anything special with it that's just how it came out the only thing I did was when I had to join the second ball to the first ball I made sure that the end I picked had the same colors in it as the ending ball first ball so that the kind of stripey thing would keep going we wouldn't look weird and confused because I look like that without being without trying anyway I love this yarn yeah I can see getting more of it I'm gonna have to go to the lion brand website and see what other colors it comes in it wasn't super expensive I only went to Joanne's to buy it because it was on sale I would yarn as pricey you guys I would definitely buy it when it's on sale now I did also get I needed some white wool that I used to make the hat that I showed yesterday I want to make a pair gloves so I needed some more I didn't have enough for the gloves and that yarns pricey too but it's probably a good thing I didn't know it was on sale until I was checking out because it was 40% off you guys the little ball of yarns normally like 12 dollars 12 95 something like that and I got it for six something yeah probably is a good thing I didn't know that because I would have filled up a basket of yarn I don't really need but yeah that's a craft warehouse there's not a lot of them they're in the Pacific Northwest but if you have one near you they do have a really nice selection of yarns they don't have a ton but what they have is nice so anyway I'm praying outside all right I'm going to go downstairs and have lunch and this is one of our guest rooms by the way artwork by me lots of artwork for sale so if you want some go to my business Facebook page there's yeah listings anyway I hope you guys have had a great week Bob is back from helping out with some repairs at his masonic lodge building and we are going to just sit and have some dinner I'm going to rest I've been resting my hip because you know the arthritis has been acting up and today I didn't have to take any pain pills or anything it's still twitchy but it's still you know you know still yeah it's not good but it's a lot better than it was and um it's getting better so give me a couple more days I'll be fine anyway that's it for the minute we are baby sitting tomorrow afternoon while the kids go out with some of their friends and yeah it ought to be a lot of fun but that's for next week's vlog please don't forget to like share and subscribe check the video description for relevant links I do have a patreon I appreciate the content to um appreciate the support um it enables me to give you guys this free content here on youtube and I sure would appreciate that I am trying to save off save up to pay pay off a couple of bills and I do need a new camera um but I can't afford that right now but I am trying to save up for that so um and a couple of other things so patreon I would love if you join and I also always have stuff for sale at the moment my Etsy store is still open um there's not a lot in it thinking about closing it but I haven't done that yet but there is like I said some stuff for sale listings pinned to the top on my facebook business page and you know if you've seen something on social media that you might want to buy send me a private message my email is down in the video description along with my happy email address if you want to send me a happy mail I sure would appreciate that um yeah and that's it like share and subscribe and you know the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it go buy yourself a ball of yarn if you want a ball of yarn or for god's sake have a donut because life's too short all right I'll be back see you next week bye guys