 You know what's bad when the husband says as you're two blocks away from the house, did you lock the front door and you have to watch the security camera video footage back to see if you did or not? Yeah, anyway. Good morning. It's just before lunch so I can technically still say good morning. Sunday November 13th. I think so. I spent the morning doing a couple of quick tours but also finishing filming the two-part series on making your own paint pigments or pigments period to use in art. Discussing my ideas about different things. Do the videos make sense? I don't know until I edit but hopefully. Anyway, that's done which is fine because tomorrow's Monday which is usually my editing day. We noticed yesterday when we were out in my car that it appears that the seal around the sunroof is leaking again. If you've been watching my vlog for a while you know we had this issue with like smack in the middle of COVID. I thought we got it fixed but yeah so we'll have to have that looked at again. Right now we're gonna go for a walk. See what we can see. See if any ducks are out. Breathe some fresh air. All that stuff. All right, let's get going shall we? For Hitchcock or Sutton with all the crows. Yesterday the geese. Yeah, because humans are coming. I got so much video filmed this weekend. The tile guy is coming tomorrow to work on the kitchen countertops which is the last part of the kitchen repairs. While he's doing that I'm going to be video editing all day so which is good. I've got a few more videos to film but the most important ones are done. And I guess Bob's finally excited about maybe working at home full-time because he's upstairs planning out and ordering a new desk and I guess we're gonna be embarking on a office remodel project soon for him. Yay! I'm happy about that by the way. All right, I'll be done. We'll do a quick bit before everybody gets there. The tile guy is coming this morning in a little bit here and going to do the last of the kitchen repairs. He's going to regraut and re-cock parts of the kitchen counter and sink area. So that's going to be done today so the kitchen's a bit of a mess again. But that's okay. I've got I think four or five videos to edit today. I've got to work on a crochet project. I've got to print some stuff to do in my watercolor sketchbook. There's a lot to do so that's fine. I'm gonna spend most of my day probably up here in the art room working on all those projects. So and I think I've decided that this is going to be my pigment experiments palette. But I'm going to take my favorite paint colors from this palette and make them again and make a palette of those colors specifically that I can work from. Take with me somewhere, that sort of thing. I think I'm going to use this chocolate's tin from Hawaii and I think that'll be really good and that bigger experiments one will stay here in the art room. So I think that's how that's going to work. I may end up using instead of that because if I want to take it around with me my other little aspirin tin maybe. I'll have to count and see how many colors so far that I've made that I really love. If there is eight or less I can use this. If there's more than that then I have to use a bigger tin. So we'll see. I'll let you know. I'll be back guys. It's just about two thirty on to Tuesday November 15th. I have no idea. Let's find out shall we? Yes November 15th. The kitchen is back together. Yay. So that's done. Switch things up a little bit but you know the husband will complain for five minutes. We used to have the dish drain in the sink. We're going to try having it on the counter. I did have this silicone sort of mat thing upstairs in the art room which I don't really use it in the art room. I have cleaned it and sanitized it. Food's not going to touch it. It's just to catch the water so it should be fine here. So we'll try that. I had the lid to a box. See because I don't think I ever had a tray for underneath that and yeah anyway. I'm trying to use what I have rather than go buy something new because you know. Hey guys it is 20 minutes after 1 p.m. Wednesday November 16th. Sorry you haven't vlogged before now but when you start the day off at 8 30 if not earlier in the morning by the little girls and their mom next door saying do you want to go for a walk with us kind of yeah throws your whole game off for the day. Anyway I'm here working on the baby blanket and listening to Emily D Baker and one of her broadcasts and yeah just crocheting the afternoon away under under my blanket because it's cold. Drinking some bone broth see there you go. It's not beer I swear. Anyway I think I don't know that that's all I'm planning on doing with my day just you know I've got to get the blanket done so there's that not because the baby's not going to be born until April but to kind of get the yarn out of my way. All right and it's a quiet week so I should take advantage. All right I'll be back. It is Thursday morning November 17th. 17th yeah 9 47 a.m. getting my day started the size just because anyway I printed some more crochet patterns. I've got some more grandson to be crocheting to do today. Neither of them should take too long. Bob has his Masonic Lodge meeting tonight so I think I think we are going to start the day I think by going on a sketch walk. Now it's cold outside it's like I don't even know if it's 40 degrees outside it's sunny but cold so yeah but I think that's what we're gonna do so let's get to it shall we. We're going on a sketch walk. I've got to find three objects to draw this morning before I can come back and it's only 42 degrees outside. I do have my fingerless gloves on so that I can draw and uh yeah I'm not sure if I'm going to film any of it or some of it I don't know but I guess we'll both find out. I'll be back. Way too windy to get any video of me sketching but this is the creek I'm standing over for some reason I was peeing water today in bridges I don't know but that's all right pretty cool all right let's go home I'm cold. I'm gonna turn some lights on what do you think there we go that's better so I finished the set of baby stuff I got the it's right here I got the blanket done I got the booties done aren't they cute and the hat I will link the youtube videos and or websites where I found the patterns the blanket is from line brown homespun as I said before the patterns still available but they don't make baby homespuns so I just used the same homespun yarn for all of these worked out just great so anyway um it's almost time for dinner anyway and I'm freezing again all right I also have some drawings to do and yeah I'll be everybody yeah I'm a hot mess welcome to my world it is Friday morning November 18th just after 9 a.m before I go get dressed and take a shower yes and I made my pajamas I'm going to set some things to simmer on the stove to try to pull pigment out of some food things so we eat red onions often and I have red onion skin scraps and I'm going to put them in my pot that I use for making dye this doesn't get used for food this is just an art room pot I got at the thrift store um so we're going to put them in here we're going to set it to simmer about 45 minutes or so um once it we're going to bring it up to a boil then set it turn the temperature down let it simmer for about 45 minutes and then um pour that off and then I've got some avocado pits so I don't know if we can pull pigment out of them using the laking process or not but we're going to find out I'll be back so while the closet looked decently clean it got a little bit too hard to find things when I wanted them that I knew were in there somewhere so I took some of the bigger bins out and put some smaller things back relabeled everything and I think organized it in a better fashion for instance I have all these small little tools here including this which I knew I had somewhere this like blender thing I couldn't find it I use it when I'm not only making putting paint together for paint pours but I've been using it for pigment making and again I knew it was in there somewhere I just couldn't figure it where so there you go I do have one pile of trash next to it a pile of donations which I have donations in the car I haven't done that yet and um the organizing bins are like I gotta fix that because that's not good I'll be back I knew it needed doing but I didn't think I was doing it today that's all right okay now I'm gonna take everything downstairs it needs to either be tossed or donated and I need some water or something I'll be back we decided we decided rather than go grocery shopping tonight that we would go walking and we'll do the grocery shopping tomorrow morning before the kids come for dinner yeah when it's light outside but it is cold it's like what did you say 41 it's cold but so we're gonna do it fast and it's dark so this is probably the only picture you're gonna see anyway I'll be back take any video because it's too dang cold but holiday house they're all lit up for Thanksgiving can't wait to see what they do for Christmas I'm not stopping so the picture's shaky it's too cold anyway hey everybody it is 10 43 a.m. Saturday November 19th I think it's the 19th yeah um obviously we're in the car and we're trying to get down the street to get out to the grocery store you know we live near a senior community and or lots of kids live in the apartments and there's quite a few drivers that don't pay attention to what they're doing and yeah bob had to just sort of to avoid somebody anyway we're gonna go grocery shopping it's really the only thing on the list today the kids are all coming for dinner tonight and um we've got the crib and mattress for the grandson to be it came and um the kids aren't really ready to take it home yet but they're gonna help us get it upstairs and check that make to make sure that everything's okay with it inside since it was shipped and um I haven't vlogged all day today except since this morning oops it is 10 o 9 p.m. we had a family dinner night with all four of the kids our birth daughter her husband adopted daughter Jenny and her husband it was great um it was so nice to see everybody we played a new game I don't remember the name of it but it was based on funny text messages but text messages yeah I don't remember what the name of it was but if I can find out from the kids I'll put it here somewhere but it was really fun then because we're doing um early Christmas with them uh they asked us for Christmas lists I hate doing that yeah we have until Wednesday I put a few things but we'll see yeah anyway we have to do that um Bob I think got the water leak in my car solved he cleaned out the drains for the sunroof I think that's fixed but then now we have a problem with the motor and the passenger side seat and it's pushed all the way forward and it won't go back so you know it's an old car I don't know what to tell you anyway it's been a good week it's been a weird week but it's been a good week uh I gave a daughter her baby blanket and booties and hat for her baby to be and uh she loved them they a Polly and Bob brought the crib and mattress upstairs I don't know where they put it upstairs but somewhere upstairs and um yeah so it was good anyway I think that's all I'm tired can you tell anyway I hope you've had a good week if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the free content my patreon all that stuff is down there and uh yeah don't forget to have a good week and a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you next week bye guys