 We had our broadcast this morning for intervals of sanity. I'll try to remember to link that channel in the description below. It's just a weekly chat about art and life, sometimes humorous and sometimes serious that I have with some friends of mine, once a week, every Sunday, life permitting. Anyway, we did that this morning. Fun fact, I was broadcasting in my pajamas. Anyway, with the daylight savings time change and everything, yeah, there was no way I was going to be able to get up and get a shower before. I'm on the West Coast, everybody gets up much earlier than I do, so yeah. Then I spent the rest of the morning sorting through really old records that I don't think we even knew we had when we moved. And so we only need to keep seven years, we usually keep 10. And we had going back to 1998, so that is a lot more than 10 years. So we'll see that all that whole while. That's got to go to this secure shredding place. So after lunch, the husband's going to help me get it bagged up and downstairs and in my car. Because yeah, that's going to be a thing. Anyway, so I did that the rest of the morning and now I'm going to go downstairs and I'm going to have some lunch. I need to work on another merch design that's rolling around inside my brain. I'm also going to be releasing stickers with the different merch designs on them. And hopefully I will have them for you all by the time this goes live. And if I do, the links will be in the description below. So the hands that say be a decent human will be one sticker. And the other one will say, don't be an asshole. Pardon my English or French pardon my language, I should say. Let's turn the light off in there. So anyway, those will be two stickers and then then the new one, which I'm not going to tell you about. I will be releasing it on t-shirts and stickers along with other merchandise, probably through Redbubble and Society 6. I'll make sure to link it all for you. I'm going to go work on that today. It's going to be one of my jobs. And yeah, I'll be back. Morning. It is Monday morning, March 11th. I think I actually should know this because I've already been on and off the computer doing website updates and social media posts and adding a couple listings to the Etsy shop. It is 7.51 a.m. And yes, I got all that done. I'm sorry. It's 8.51 a.m. The clock on my car is wrong. Um, I got all that done before. Yeah, now. Now we're going to head out. I've got a crap ton of errands to run, including mailing out some paperwork for our tax return so we can get that done and rip off that Band-Aid. We are going to have to pay. We already know that. I've got some documents in the back in case you didn't hear the paper rustling in the back. Um, then I have to take to the secure shredding place. I don't know how much that's going to cost, but I guess we'll find out. And what else? I've got to go to the hardware store. I've got to go to Dollar Tree. I don't know. I've got a whole list of stuff. So we're going to try to get it all done today. And I'll bring you with me. It's going to be interesting. That's all I know. We're going to get the two super important ones done first, which is the mailing and also the shredding. I did come out with two new stickers in the Etsy shop. I listed them this morning. I've actually had the stickers for a while since before I moved from California to Oregon. And they just sort of got filed away and a little bit misplaced. But I found them this morning. I actually kind of forgot about them, to be honest. And it didn't take me long to figure out where I put them. Anyway, I listed them in the Etsy shop. And they are currently available. There are two new designs coming out. And I ordered the stickers yesterday. So as soon as they come in, they'll get packaged up and listed. I am going to be where I can switching out some of the product packaging in the Etsy store from plastic to some sort of paper. Whether it's a glycine bag or it's package free or I'm not sure exactly yet. When I do have to use plastic, I'm going to try to use the biodegradable type. So we're going to be working on that. One of the things I got to pick up today is another five gallon bucket with another lid so that I have a spare. Somebody is tailgating me. Holy cow. Exactly where I'm going. Anyway, all right, I'm going to get my stuff done and I will be back. A conversation about USPS. Anyway, we'll get into it. We're tracking an important pack. They don't do step-by-step tracking like other delivery services do like UPS or FedEx. So anyway, I got all my daily postings done this morning just now. I got my call into the insurance company that I've been needing to do for like a week, to be honest. So he's going to be sending me an email in a little bit that I need to follow up on. I need to do some more laundry. I think there's a load of wet clothes in the washing machine. So I need to stick those in the dryer and take a shower probably because you see my sweater. That means I'm in pyjamas. My hair, yeah, anyway. I haven't gotten any actual art done yet today, but I did get a bunch of stuff matted and packaged ready for sale in the Etsy shop. I haven't listed it yet, but it is for sale. I will link the section with original art in the description below. It is all original art. It hasn't even been scanned or anything. So this is stuff that won't be reprinted and stuff that's okay for me to sell. I have a couple of pieces that I did inspired by other artists or that I love too much to sell, at least the original. The originals I love too much to sell. I will be having probably my daughter photograph them. She's a professional photographer, not me. And have her photograph them so that we can sell the reprints. But as of yet, I haven't done that. She is busy with her day job. Anyway, I and I've been on the computer. I don't know since just before nine o'clock this morning. So anyway, all of that is done. The pinecone pulp and other paper pulp jarred selections of things getting ready for a whole bunch of spring paper making, as soon as it warms up enough, are all cleared off and done. I'm ready actually to do some artwork and to do some journaling and the drying shelves are clear. But first, I'm going to see about grabbing something to eat after I go feed the deer some deer corn. And I take care of the paint sludge that's on the back patio. So I have an idea for double bagging a bunch of cardboard that I have from cleaning up some stuff this morning. I'm going to double bag the cardboard and then I'm going to dump the sludge in there and let it dry. And then the whole thing can just go in the trash. So all right, I'm going to do that. So I make a point almost every morning of coming out and putting food out for the deer. I leave a little trail of corn from the corner where I know they go live over to the blue bull. You see the blue bull? That's bandits old food bull. And we do sort of miss having a pet. I think we've sort of semi-adopted the deer. Anyway, so we're using his old bull to feed the deer. And now I am out here. It's very late in the afternoon with another cup of deer corn. The bull is empty. So that's the first time since we started this that the bull has been empty in just a few hours. Usually it takes a full day, day and a half. So I'm not sure who's eating it, but somebody's hungry. I kind of wish we had a deer camera. Something maybe even that we could get a live feed from. I would put that on my other YouTube channel. I do have a spare YouTube channel. I would like we could make it the deer cam. Do y'all know how to do that? Because if you do, can you leave me some tips? I sure would be interested. That would be a lot of fun. Maybe something that people could access like from their tablets or if we had an address they could just access the deer live feed deer cam. I know it's a cool idea. I could hang it on my fence. So it's still on my property. Technically the bull's on the... That's not technically my property, but I could move it at some point so that the deer can still find it. And it's on my property. It would be so cool. If you guys have any ideas, let me know. All right, I'm gonna give them some more corn and I'll be back. Good morning. It is Wednesday morning. March 13th, I think. Pretty sure. 9 0 9 a.m approximately. I only know these things because I've already been up since like 6 30 working on the computer. So yeah. Yeah, it's been an interesting morning. I got the memorial piece done for our sweet bandit who passed away. I'll insert a picture here somewhere. I got that done finally this morning. I got the last coat of clear on it last night and then this morning I was able to attach the rest of the pieces. So that can get hung up now. I need to get... Oh, command strips well and out. I am headed out. I've got to go to the grocery store. I've got to go to the office supply store and the liquor store because you can't buy liquor at the grocery store in Oregon. It's one of those states. There's a few of them across the country. Anyway. I'm going to go to craft warehouse first. Craft warehouse is a smallish chain here in Oregon of craft and fabric supplies. And I'm going to head out over there first. I think. And yeah. And then do my other errands and then come home. I think that's it for this morning. I there's a lot going on. You've already seen a couple of other... You see me. I was right. I'd left the light. One in which I was cleaning out my salvage bin. That's literally a bin of junk. Things I find, collect, were are given that don't have any other category. Bottle caps and empty cans. Pieces of cardboard as you saw. There's lots of weird stuff in there. It was way past time to clean it out, which I did. And now it's too dark in here. Now it's too bright. Anyway, it was way past time for me to clean it out. There were some things in there I know. I knew I was never going to use. And some things that's time were just past it for lots of reasons, which I won't get into. But they have to go away. So I did that. I finished bandits. Tribute piece, which I said are ready today. Got all my errands run. I made a new... See, now I got to turn lights back on. Holy cow, hold on. I made a new watercolor palette. I said earlier I bought paints I didn't really need. So Craft Warehouse had Emgram on sale. And they had this small packs of Emgram. This is the Pacific Northwest watercolor set. It was half off. I couldn't resist. Emgram is kind of expensive paint, so... And I like the idea of having a Pacific Northwest set of paints. I have a couple of desert sets. And I love them. They have lots of yellows and turquoise in them. This one is very cool. It has a couple of warm colors in it, but it's very much representing the Pacific Northwest and colors you could use to make interesting paintings of the Pacific Northwest. So I added Daniel Smith Buff, Daniel Smith... Daniel Smith and Anthaquidone Red and Blick in Sepia. The other five colors are from the set. I had the Daniel Smith ones already. So it is here. Drying. Gonna put it all back. So once you fill up watercolor pan set or you've painted with one, you shouldn't close it. You should leave it open until the paints are completely dry. Now in the case of a new set like this one, it's going to have to be open for like a week. If I was just painting with it, like I would just leave it open overnight and then close it the next day and put it away. You should never close them wet, especially one like Emgram because they're made with honey as a binder instead of gum arabic. And they don't dry completely. So they stay kind of moist. So they don't dry down like the other paints do. So yeah, you need to leave it open. I've seen a couple posts on that today when I was doing some research on the selection of colors for the palette. And yeah, don't close it until it's dry. Uh, what else? I've got my table all set up, ready to art journal tomorrow. I have five journals out. I'm going to work on one while that's drying, work on the other one. And then while that's drying, work on the next one. Like, yeah, I'll probably do that for a couple of days and try to clear up some bits and pieces. I still haven't done anything with my artist trading coins. I mentioned that a few vlogs back and I created a new template for coins. A back and some fronts. I still haven't done anything with them. They're just sitting here. So that's going to be something I want to do. But yeah, so anyway, I'm going to go downstairs now and have some water. I'm really thirsty, which is not a good sign. I haven't had, I drink a lot of water normally and I haven't had that much today. So I'm going to go do that. I'm going to watch my soap opera, General Hospital. Been a fan since it was in black and white. And try to figure out what we're going to do for dinner. I'm pretty sure the husband doesn't want leftovers for a third night in a row. So maybe chicken quesadillas. I do have the stuff for that. So yeah, maybe. All right. That's it for right now. I'll see you tomorrow. Hey guys, it's Thursday, March 14th, 2.50pm. Don't get excited. I only know that because the iPad's in front of me. See, I'm eating some lunch. Finally, I know it's kind of late. I got a message late last night from our cleaning lady. Is it okay if I come by tomorrow to clean? Yeah. I was going to message her anyway to see if she could come by. So anyway, so she was here doing that today and that, you know, I'm not able to get anything done while she's here. I love her. I love that she comes by, but I just, you know, yeah. So anyway, I got nothing done. I chatted with my friends, Cindy Utter and Lindy Lissard most of the morning. Did some posting online, my daily morning posts. I intended to maybe do some art upstairs yet. None of that happened. It just didn't happen. So anyway, now I'm eating lunch. I'm going to catch up on some YouTube videos and some messages and stuff like that. And maybe I'll get some other stuff done. We'll see. I'll be back. I've already been upstairs to do mine and you're sort of getting a close-up shot of my face, my messy bed hair because I've got my pajamas on. Nobody needs that view. So I've already been upstairs. I've done daily postings, wrapped up in Etsy order that's got to go out, got prepped for the day. I'm going to work on some art journaling today. Picked out a few options for new lighting for the house outside and sent the links off to my husband who is upstairs working in his office. So I don't want to disturb him, but we need to do something about the lighting outside. Anyway, what else? We also need to do something about painting the house outside. So we have a few color choices for that. I need to fill out the paperwork for the HOA and send that off because we want to get the house painted. But we need to kind of do the electrical first before the house gets painted. So I also have some retractable awnings in the back. I need to do a little research and find a company in the Portland area that can refurb those. One of them is electronic and on a remote and the other one's manual. So I'd like to kind of have them both be on a switch or something. And they're also like not a great color. So I'd like to replace them. So yeah, we'll see. Kids are coming over for dinner tonight. I think we're gonna go run and get some takeout barbecue for dinner. And yeah, that's all I can think about right now. That's all I can think of. So I'm gonna go actually take a shower and get dressed because you know, it's a thing. And yeah, then head upstairs and we'll see what happens. I'll be back. Gonna go check on the status of the deer corn bowl. All for my brother and they're helping us disassemble, well disconnect and drain the hot tub that's here in the house. If you're seeing this clip, you just saw a little clip of my dad working on the electrics and we found out there's a hose underneath the hot tub to drain it. Woohoo, because we were thinking we had to siphon things, but we don't have to. So we're gonna get it all drained and then I have a disposal company coming by to give me an estimate on actually picking it up and hauling it off. If one of my parents' friends doesn't want it. So we're waiting to hear back from them. We were hoping there was a guy in the neighborhood that he might want it, but he's decided not. So we'll see what happens with my dad's and mom's friend. My guess is we have to pay to take it away. I'll let y'all know. I'll be back. Hey guys, 3 p.m. on Saturday and it's been a long day. I'm going upstairs to put something away. Hang on, it's gonna get really dark for a second. Anyway, it's been a long day. I didn't get done anything that I anticipated getting done, but that being said we did get the, as you saw, hot tub disassembled, broken up, whatever you want to call it now to the backyard and the junk people are coming in the morning to pick it up and we got some stuff. My parents were here. They took some stuff I was giving away. They wanted or my brother did. So it's all good. It was a big, big, big project. Anyway, it's all done now. So I think and we don't have an intervals of sanity broadcast tomorrow. Too many of us have other obligations that popped up. And so not me, but you know others and can't really do a group chat broadcast with only like two people. Well, I guess you could, but it's not the point. So we can do it with one or two missing, but there's more than that. So anyway, so we're going to put that off for a week and we'll be back a week from tomorrow. And so I think tomorrow, the husband and I are going to, when the junk people come, I think we're going to go out and go explore the neighborhood, maybe explore a new mall. Still looking for a footstool for the living room. So I've grabbed the big huge one from the library, but it's really too big, but it's better than nothing. So I was still looking for a footstool. So cross your fingers. And that that's it for the moment. I hope that you've had an interesting week and a good one. It's been an interesting one for me, but it's all good. And yeah, we're going to keep going forward, making more art and working on things and getting stuff done and working around the house, doing some DIY. So it's all good. I'll bring you with me when I can. That's it for the moment. I hope you all have had a great one. Don't forget to like share and subscribe if you want to stalk me on social media, support the free content on the channel, send me happy mail, all that stuff's in the description below. There's a link for a site called Linktree. If you click on it, you're going to find all my social media sites. You're going to find my Patreon, my Etsy shop, my Amazon store, my tip jar, like all of it. My happy mail address is also in the description below. And yeah, you can send me, I like happy mail. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please leave them here on the video. And if you're a member of one of my Facebook groups, especially a life of art and self expression, don't be afraid to ask me a question over there. That works. All right, that's it for now. I hope you all have a great evening and go do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you later. Bye guys.