 So, happy early Sunday morning people. It is 7.19 a.m. Sunday morning. We are headed to a muscle car museum in Salem, Oregon, which we were supposed to go do with the Sun and Law and daughter. Daughter has COVID. She still tests positive. Sun and Law is negative. I'll cut that part out so y'all don't know where I live. Anyway. Probably. Anyway, he's negative and he's going to be cautious and wear a mask. He's going to be cautious to wear a mask today and everything, but we're going to go ahead the three of us and go to the museum. Becca, of course, can't go because she's still positive and hacking up along. So, you know, there's that. Okay. We are at the brother's car museum in Salem, Oregon. I believe that's what it's called. I'll put any contact information for them down below. And this is a pretty cool place. If you like cars, interesting vehicle, like this is a cool, my dad would love this place. It is, I think by invitation only. But again, I'll put their information down below. We're going to walk around with the group in a minute and look at everything. I was just inside using the restroom. It's huge, much bigger. There's a whole other room over that way. Let me see if I can get some cool pictures. Look at this one. It's pretty cool. All right. I'll be back. Hey, guys. Good morning. It is Monday morning. It is March 28th. Yeah, 10, 10 a.m. I have edited a video for the patrons and supporters and their private YouTube channel. It is saving right or rendering right now. And then I'll get uploaded today. Next will be the weekly vlog, which I'll edit next. And then I also have to do the writing for this week's social media posts. I already created the mood board for moody Monday, which has to post next week. Hopefully I remember to post it like not like last month. Anyway, so we have all that to do and I have some drawing I want to do. Especially now that I have. So happy. I also am going to rearrange a couple of closets up here today because I need to make them work more efficiently wisely. All the things. Anyway, normal ordinary Monday, we're supposed to do a sort of family birthday, family dinner celebration with all four of the kids tomorrow night. But because the daughters had COVID, even though she's feeling better now, I don't know if she's testing negative yet. I don't know if she's tested yet today or if she's going to wait until tomorrow. I, in either case, I'm not sure if it's we're going to need to postpone. I don't know. So I guess we'll find out. It's kind of sunny ish out a little bit warm. It's nice, nice spring day. And. It's a little bit warmer than a counseling appointment and seeing what's up with the daughter and her COVID plague. I don't think it's going to be a quiet week, which I'm not mad about. So anyway, all right, let's get that closet done. I'll be back. Okay. I got the two closets purged and rearranged. So now all of my organization empty bins and things are in the hall linen closet along with yes linens and some decor, which is what it should be. This is a rocking closet in the spare bedroom upstairs. It's kind of a second master anyway. That is just memorabilia paperwork. Baby stuff. That sort of thing. And then we have this pile here to let go of. And one of the girls has already claimed that little pile over there with a green bag. So I've had that green bag a really long time. I also haven't used it in a really long time. It's time for it to go. So anyway, I'm waiting to hear from the rest of the kids about the other stuff and then see if they even want it or somebody else doesn't know. So that's all done. I had one and a half bags of garbage because you know, I have to save every like plastic box anyway. So that's all gone away. And now and the video, the first video is saved rendered. So now I can do the second one, the vlog and while I drink my bone broth and then write the posts and then go have lunch before I have to finish laundry and stuff. It's going to be a busy Monday. I'll be back. Okay, that was so great. I just spent like three hours at the art desk under the new light, which is great, sketching and chatting with my friend Leslie McGrath. That was such a good time. I got one video loaded. And the other one is loading. And I'm going to write all the posts for the Facebook groups right now. I got the Google document for the supporters updated and then schedule all the posts out for the Facebook groups. And then once this other video is loaded, we are done up here and I can turn the dang computer off. That's a good thing. I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. I think it's still morning. Hold on. It's 1030am Tuesday, March 29. We're supposed to go out to dinner with all four of the kids to celebrate Jenny's birthday and Polly is his birthday. But that's going to depend on whether number one daughter is still sick with coded or not and if she tests positive, we'll see. So that might get postponed, I don't know. Anyway, I woke up this morning with a neck ache. For those that don't know, I was in a car accident with somebody who ran a red light back in 1993, early 94. Maybe early 94. It was a long time ago. Anyway, occasionally my neck acts up and I woke up this morning with it bothering me. I've been doing some stretching exercises and things. It's really just like taking pain medication. So I'm trying to avoid doing that, but yeah, it's it's better than when I woke up, but it's been bugging me so anyway. It cracks since the car accident. Anyway, I must have slept on it weird. Anyway, I am going to put some art tools away and then I'm going to prep another journal for sort of this whore shack test style doodling journal I was working on recently. I was working on recently that I finished. I started this journal a long time ago, and I covered all of the pages with like ink spills and so with ink spills and things, and then I would try to, I would draw on top of it. I actually did the whole book and then went back after it was dry and drop drew on it. Now at first when I was doing the drawings, I would sort of force them into a shape or just draw a shape, which is fine. But then I realized that one of the reasons it went literally for years without being finished was because I just wasn't feeling that and then I decided to start drawing what I saw in the shape of the ink on the page, sort of like when you do a whore shack test with ink blobs, and then I started coming up with more things like this. I was very therapeutic for me. And I enjoyed the process. So I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to do that again. This time I happen to have a whole bunch of coffee that I made up to do some dying on another project and I've got a bunch left over. So I have and I have an extra journal. And so this is a traveler's notebook style one. And I think it's one. Yeah, it's got sort of calendar. Can you see that pages in it. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to today work on coffee staining all the pages in this and then when that dries I'll do drawings and I'll take it downstairs. I also need to put all of these away because they're dry and maybe work on some watercolor sketching in this bag. We'll see. Anyway, I'm going to do a couple more neck exercises first. And okay, got some yard work done, got the bulbs planted, got some weeds pulled, got the deer corn bowl filled. Got some stuff we've purged into the back of the car. I gave a couple of things to the neighbors for their girls and or them to use that they thought they could use. I'm going to water said bubbles now I also washed out a couple of the old dog dishes. I'm going to put one or two of them out with just water in it for the neighborhood dogs when they come by. There's quite a few of us neighbors that leave bowls of water out for the pets. It does get kind of hot and yeah, so anyway, I'm going to take care of all that. I just spent a couple of hours reorganizing some watercolor palettes because I had ones I wasn't using and I just reorganized them in a way to sort of force me to use some of the paints, but at least that's the theory behind it. So there are these very large plastic palettes that you can get at Amazon. And looks like this. I'll put the link down below. And it comes with this pre made 33 well tray inserted in it. And also it has a mixing tray that you can take out. So I usually take both of these out. And then I use glue or that sticky putty stuff. You think I'd be more prepared but no. Anyway, I use this lock type fun tack. Molding mounting putty. It works actually really well. When I'm not sure that the color arrangements going to stay the way I put it in here, especially or if I ever feel like I'm going to need to move them around. The putty is great because you can actually it will hold them. But it won't. You can take them off. So, but if I used e 6000 maybe on their forever. So anyway, I took a bunch of little small pocket palettes I had different brands. There's Sennelier in here. There is memory blue in here. There is some van go I think in here. There's a bunch of different brands in here. I think there's some core. Anyway, and I put them all together and to into this arrangement I took apart and Frankenstein all of the color swatches and made the one big color swatch in the order the paints are in. And then anything that was too much of a duplicate. I had my best with it associated swatch. I used to have up here had these. And then these obviously we're all here these are my like sort of water soluble graphite, but I used to have a lot of these small pocket palettes. I had two of these big palettes. These are my pinky paints, but I had two of these that just had random stuff in it, besides about four or five more of these small ones. I decided that was just ridiculous because there were paints up here I was just never going to use. And so I got rid of the extra metal palettes that I didn't need. I just want to keep the pinky by itself and then these graphite ones are kind of messy. I just want to keep them by themselves. Everything else is these are. So when I want to just work on like metallic paints or allow and just do muted palette. So these are like specific ones over here, which works fine. Otherwise, I just want my Daniel Smith palette the mixed palette that we just made and then Shmiki, and this is going to work. So we have this and especially when I have people over here painting with me. This is a palette that I can give them to use. And they can try a bunch of different brands and play with watercolor paints and see if they like it. Now I usually don't put this thing back in because I don't really use this. I will save it for a little while and see if I use it as a mixing palette or something I don't know. But anyway, now this one will go over here. The other thing too is this consolidates the pallets down so there's not as many over here. So I can actually find what I need when I need it. So now we have the three bays of pallets. Much easier to find. That's the theory. So we're going to go with it. Anyway, that was a fun project, a little bit messy, but it was good. So now I'm going to turn the lights off and shut down, clean up, go downstairs, sit and have some water while I wait for Bob to get off of work. And then we're going to go for a walk, I think, before we go have dinner. And since the kids are kids, one kid, she's still, you know, sick with the plague. We're not going out with them to celebrate any birthdays, so we'll just stay home. We have food here, so we'll just stay home down there. I've got some avocados that you can eat. So anyway, all right, that's it for the minute. I think it's just about time of the year to put the window screen back up. We took them down for the holidays and didn't put them back, but I kind of like to open the windows. So I think the next house project, if I don't get to it before the weekend, this weekend will be to put the windows back because yeah. All right, that's it. But right now, I'll be the holiday house has done it again. So cute. Good morning everybody. It's 9.59am Wednesday, March 30th. I need to go run a couple of errands. I need to check the PO box because I think it's been two weeks. Not that there's probably anything in there because y'all don't send me happy mail. You don't have to. But if you want to, I have a PO box. The address is down below. Anyway, I also need to go get some gift wrap and I need to maybe go by Target and Goodwill. We shall see. We have a bunch of little kids in my life, neighbor kids, grand-nephews, great-nephews, great-nephews, and stuff. And I love to buy them books. And the best way to do that is at the thrift shops. So I try to go at least a couple times a month and go see what I can find. It seems like most of them that are about four years old like Paw Patrol. And until we had Paxton in our life, our great-nephew, I didn't know what Paw Patrol was. Yeah, so anyway, the little girls next door like Paw Patrol too. So anyway, we are going to go see what we can see. I'm going to get out of the house a little bit. I need to do a piece of art for a son-in-law. Well, I don't need to. I want to. He doesn't have any idea I'm doing it. And I want to try to get that done today if I can. Tomorrow is counseling. And that means that in the morning I can get stuff done. But afterwards I'm going to be a useless blob because I'm usually just completely useless afterwards. Emotionally useless. I think that's probably fairly normal. Sessions only an hour long, but the after effects of working through things are just, yeah, it takes me a good 12 hours to get past it. So anyway, overall it's not shaping up to be a bad week. Although Paxton and our niece and her husband and everything except I think Paxton's baby brother all have the flu because Paxton brought it home from preschool. So the birthday party is being rescheduled from this weekend to I think the weekend afterwards. Hopefully they're all better by then. But yeah, lots of stuff going on. Okay, so I spent the last few hours working on a piece of artwork for the son-in-law for his birthday, which we're celebrating his and Jenny's birthday on this coming Saturday. As long as Rebecca doesn't still have the plague. But anyway, and I did a piece for him. He is as is my husband very into vintage cars and fixing them up. As you all know, Bob has a 1973 Plymouth Barracuda. So anyway, Paulius has a Mustang, aka Dolores. She's kind of a pile of scrap metal at the moment, but he's working on it. Anyway, someday she may look something similar to that. So I did that for him for his office. Hopefully he likes it. But we'll see. I don't know. All right, I'm going to clean up my mess and get on to the next thing. I'll be back. All right, we're out for our evening walk. I got a couple of more kids books at the Goodwill today. It was half off just certain color and then I got senior discount. So they weren't pretty inexpensive when we took two of them and took them to the library box down at the park near here and left them there. I do that periodically. Anyway, we're going to get a few more steps in and head towards home and have some dinner because, yeah, we have to send out a couple of text messages. I think to the kids to find out some details about a couple things this weekend. So yeah, all right, I'll be back. There's ducks over there. There's three more over there. I don't know if there's any in the water, but nope for some hiding. Good morning, everybody. It is March 31. It's 1050 a.m. I'm going to run out really quick and will not really quick necessarily. But anyway, we're going to run out and I've got three big bags of donations in the back of the car. Because I've been spring cleaning and getting rid of things and whatever I can't pass on to the family that they can use. Then I donated it to one of the charity shops. So we're going to go donate said items to said charity shops this morning. It's just before 2.30 in the afternoon. It is a beautiful day out, probably cloudy, nice and sunny, not too hot, not too cold. And a nice little child with a neighbor cat and her daughter, Berkeley, they're sitting on the front porch doing some drawing and doing a great job. And anyway, I'm going to go get some steps in now and see if the ducks are in the pond and enjoy some fresh air. And being mindful of what I need today, post-counseling, which I've been feeling that way for a few weeks now and I just found out today that that's normal and a good sign. I'm glad because I was worried it was not a good sign. I'm pretty much useless the rest of the day after counseling and I need to... I've found that I need to just have a chill, quiet day and do what I'm really feeling up to doing and taking care of myself and being mindful of myself. When I told her that today, she said, oh good, that's very normal and a good sign. I'm glad it is. But anyway, I think we're going to work on a new art therapy practice on the channel coming up. I was speaking to her about it today and I'm not a therapist, licensed or otherwise. I am not a mental health professional by any stretch, but I will show you all what I do for myself and what works for me. And if you want to try it, by all means go ahead and share it. But if you are struggling with your mental health, there's no shame in seeking out help, seeking a professional to help you, a doctor, a counselor, medication, whatever works for you, do that. Okay? All right. I'm going to go get some steps in, take some pictures maybe of this tree. I'll say, if I haven't said before, now that I'm on medication and in therapy, I'm realizing there are a few things I've done historically to self-medicate, for lack of a better term. Drinking is one of them, although it wasn't an alcoholic, I didn't probably drink one. I should have, especially in my 20s. Over-eating, definitely did that up until a couple years ago. Over-spending, one of the things I didn't really need. I no longer feel the need to do any of those and I'm shocking myself and making that statement. Feels pretty good though, I gotta say. All right. More steps. Good morning everybody. I don't think I've vlogged yet today. It is 11.01 a.m. Friday, April 1st, April Fool's Day. Anyway, I've just been doing chores and I filmed the first part of the first video of a new series here for YouTube. Patrons and supporters will get more detailed videos and explanations. But you all are going to get some video. And, yeah, what am I trying to say? I don't know. You want to get the longer videos, the more detailed videos. You can become a patron or supporter. It's not super expensive. The link is down in my link tree, there's some links down below and or the video description. Anyway, I'm not trying to hurt as a washing machine because I'm doing laundry. I did the dishes. All the things for the things because of the things. We are going to go out and support my daughter and her business. She's a realtor at FYI. If you're in the Portland, Oregon area and you need a realtor, I got one. I'll leave her contact info down below. Anyway, we're going to go support her. She's having an open house thing at the office where she works today. So we're going to go do that later. We're going to meet all of the kids and son-in-law's parents for dinner tomorrow to celebrate Polly's birthday and Jenny's birthday. And I've got a pile of gifts over here for all the birthdays. And, yeah, I mean, it's going to be a fun weekend. I don't know what else to say about that. It's not anything super exciting. I don't think, I mean, you know, we might do besides chores. Maybe we'll see an interesting estate sale or something. I am looking for one of these like sewing boxes. I'll put a picture here. Kind of, I just would like to have it to put my downstairs drawing stuff in or something, but they are like ridiculously expensive. People want a stupid amount of money for them. So, yeah, it's a good thing I'm not in a big hurry. Anyway, I am going to change the laundry, put it in the dryer, and I'm going to sit and read for a bit before I get on to the next chore. So, anyway, it's a thing. I don't know what to say. I'll be fast. I did something with my hair. Is it good? I don't know, but it's something. I'll be back. I'm here to do this because they're playing music inside, but anyway, we are at Caldwell Banker in Newburgh, Oregon. For those that don't know, my daughter's a relitter and they're having an open house, so we came down to support and meet everybody. They're going to have these open houses once a month, and therefore prospective clients, current clients, former clients, whatever. They have their loan officer here. They've got home inspectors here, a bunch of people. Anyway, I'll put their contact information down below, check it out. All right, I'll be back. Very noisy. Good morning, everybody. Obviously, we're in the car. It is 9.56 a.m. Saturday, April 2nd. It is the son-in-law's birthday. Everybody tell him happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Pollyas. Anyway. Did you say happy birthday at Facebook? I did. We're going to go out and run errands. Do our usual of Saturday morning thing and go out and get groceries and run errands. Pick up prescriptions and all of that stuff. The debate of the day, though, is what is the one thing that's going to be out of stock today? Last week, it was mayonnaise. The week before that was light bulbs. I like just no idea. Every week, it's different. It's been that way through COVID. Obviously, the supply chain is not fixed yet because every week, it's a different thing. I don't know. We'll let you know. Sometimes it's pasta. There's literally no pasta. Of course, at the beginning, no toilet paper. I don't know. We'll see this week. How many stores will it take us to get the whole list? I don't know. And will there be something we can't find? I guess we'll find out. All right. That's it for the minute. I'll be back. Going out to dinner later. I also took a make up on at some point. Anyway, I'm updating all the tablets because iOS update again. We've been home for a little bit. We had some lunch and we're working on the spring cleaning list. So changing the smoke alarm batteries, vacuuming behind the dryer, cleaning out the dryer vent, cleaning the dish. Well, we do that more than just spring cleaning, but running a cleaning cycle in the dishwasher, cleaning out the dishwasher disposal. All those things. So anyway, we're doing all of that before we go to dinner tonight. Bob's added a couple more things to the list. He's also going to be vacuuming out the car, I think. We had it cleaned. It's already got a layer of pollen on it again because, you know, it's spring in Oregon. Okay, we are home after having dinner with all four of the kids and the, Paulie's mom because in loss. Anyway, it was Paulie's birthday. They're celebrating. So that's his mother-in-law. There we go. So anyway, we've had a good week. We hope you've had a good week. We're going to go get some more stuff tomorrow. I'll do some shopping. That's a next week's fog. Anyway, check out the video description for relevant links, ways to support the free content here on YouTube. They're all down there. Some of you are in my link tree list. The links, check it out. Questions, comments, concerns, leave them down below. Join my Facebook group. All the things for the things because of the things. All right. That's it this week. Go out. Have a good day. Have a good week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you next week. Bye, guys.