 Good morning, everybody. It's always great to start the new vlog by having to close the old one, because yeah, that's a thing. It is Sunday, October 23rd, 1131 a.m. And we are kind of just getting going because after getting the kids from the airport very late last night and having them come here and get the dog and their car and blah blah blah. It was pretty late by the time we got to bed, so anyway, I have to fix one of the dog's toys because she chewed a hole in it again and and we have Hazel downstairs, our robot vacuum vacuuming the floors. And and yes, we gave the robot a name just because we didn't know what to call her and we wanted to give her a name and we thought Hazel was cute and you know, I don't know. Anyway, I think we also probably need to clean the gutters because it has been raining on the gutters are full of schmoots or about to be full of schmoots. So I think that's going to be a thing today. Past that, no idea. All right. I guess, oh and laundry. Always with the laundry. All right. I guess I better get to it. It's not going to do itself. I'll be back guys. Again, that squeak. It's my shoes and my orthotics. Anyway, every time I get a new pair of shoes and or a new pair of orthotics for a couple good couple months, they squeak like that. Anyway, despite the fact that we had a late start today, we've gotten a lot done already. But before we do gutter cleaning, we're going to go for a walk because yeah, it is Monday morning, October 24th. Well, it's not Monday morning anymore. It's 109 p.m. I've been answering phone calls and working on my pigment making video. Well, not the video yet, but the pigment pigment making, getting surprising results. But anyway, working on that, I also was editing video and replying to comments. Anyway, I think it's time I go eat lunch now because yeah. As I got all my work upstairs done and laundry done, dishes done, all the chores and things got the typing done for the week. That's for the social media posts. Got everything scheduled, video load and of course, edit it. If it's loaded, it's edited anyway. In a couple minutes, Bob is going to be off work until his meeting at seven. We were going to go for a walk. Only, I don't mind walking in the rain, but that's pretty hard rain. We'll have to see. I don't know. I'll be back. Morning guys. It is 10 a.m. straight up on Tuesday, October 25th. Don't get excited. I looked. We're obviously in the car. We're going to go run some errands. How much gas do I have? I guess we're getting gas first because I only have a quarter of a tank. But anyway, we're going to go run some errands. Mostly fun errands, Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby. I need to go pick up some medication and I want to go look at some new house plants. And I need to check on the PO Box, but that's like low on the list. And if I don't get to the PO Box today, it's no big deal. Despite the fact that it's raining, I'm going to head out for a walk. You know, Bob can't come with me. He's working. So that's okay. He likes to go walking late. I don't. So anyway, he likes to walk late. If that's the only time he can get out, which he's going to do tonight, I don't really like to do that. He's got meetings pretty late this evening. So I'm going to go walking now. It is, as you can hear, drizzling a little bit. But last time I checked, I'm not the wicked witch. I'm not going to melt. At least I don't think so anyway. You guys, I know I look like a hot mess. This is what my hair does when I get right out of bed. It's 7.22 in the morning on Wednesday, October 26th. For the first time in what almost three years, Bob has gone into the office to go to work. He's not too happy about it. Neither am I because he likes working at home and he's very productive. Anyway, it's going to be weird being here in the house by myself today. But yeah, it is what it is, right? All right, I'll be back. I am dressed sort of awake. I know. I scheduled my post-Farzy Trio to go up in a few minutes. I microwaved all of the pigment jars that are soaking. We're going to do it obviously another big batch, fairly big batch of found pigments. I did, as I said, pick up some leaves last night. So we will try. I have three more up here of my earth pigments that I want to try making leg pigments from. So we will get those done at some point but it is not a fast process. So yeah. Sorry, I'm getting messages from my deacon. It's pretty funny. Anyway, in the meantime while we're hurrying up and waiting, we've got pigments soaking. We've got some finished leg pigments doing their drying thing. Like I'm telling you guys, none of it is fast. It takes like days. These have to soak for a minimum of 24 hours before I can try to make the leg pigments out of them. These, once I do make the leg pigments, take two to three days to dry or more. In the meantime, my desk is full. It's a good thing I don't have anything pressing I need to do. So yeah. All right, I'm going to reply to Mike's funny comment and then I guess I'll go down it and maybe fold laundry because that's been needing to be done for kind of quite a while. So anyway, all right, on to the next thing. You know, it's not often you see a samurai sword when you're out walking. It must be Halloween or just about a house because they really go all out for all the holidays. So cool. Morning. It is 10 30 ish Thursday morning October or something. What is it? What's the date today? October 27th. I have counseling today at noon. And before that, I took some of the same pigments that pigments pigments pigments that we already did late pigments from the same materials. And this time, we're going to try it again. So this time, I gathered enough to do some dry earth type pigments. But I also ground all of them up and I ground them up in a blender with some water rather than chopping them up with scissors and to see if we get better results than we did last time. For instance, choreopsis, which is one of the plants in my front yard. This is what it already looks like and it's only been in here a couple minutes. And yesterday when I looked at the water from the other one that was just like cut up with scissors, you could still see through it. You can't even see through that. And the resulting lake pigment from it, hold on, something like that looks like that. So there's very little there. I have another one that again was actually a bright pink water, but this has only been a few minutes and it looks like that. You can't even see through it. And the one from yesterday like has a little bit on there, but I think that might just be baking soda. I think with some of the plant material, when you do a lake pigment from it, the way to go is really to blend it up with water in a blender to get really good results. I haven't found that heating the water or boiling the water makes a whole lot of difference, but definitely blending it into said water does. And then just leaving it sit like that for, you know, two days, three days before you try to make a lake pigment out of it. Anyway, I'm going to be filming a whole video on it. So you'll get the instructions there. Okay. We're going to go on a sketchwalk. I think the gardener's here. So it's probably a good time for me to do that. And I don't know if I'm going to film it, but we'll see. I'll be back. On this rainy, Oregon morning. It's okay. I like the rain on that. We're going to go to the grocery store this morning. A couple of the kids and my dad are coming to dinner tonight. And I guess I need food to feed them with. So we're going to, we're going to go do that. My pigment experiments are coming along nicely. I should be able to start filming sometime next week. Yay. And we won't tell Mr. Bob. I stole a rock from his yard again to grind pigments with. I do have a mortar and pestle. And I've been using that, but I want to try the mortar bowl with a rock. I do have a bigger mortar and pestle on my Christmas wish list. We are going to go get the errands done because I have other chores to do before people come over, including catching up on my daily drawing. Did I say what day time it was? It is Friday, October 28th, 941 a.m. Anyway, we're going to go try to get all of our errands done early. Hopefully I can find everything at Winko, but I'm guessing I'm going to have to go to Walmart for some things because Mr. Bob needs beer and they never have the brand that he likes at Winko. So there's that. So I'm going on a beer run. All right, that's it for a minute. I've had all my coffee and my morning oatmeal. Can you tell? All right, that's it for right now. I'll be back. Okay. I think the hardest part about grocery shopping in Oregon is going to crack y'all up. Well, maybe. It's finding my car afterwards because yes, I forget to park it and I know some of you. I forget where I park it and I know some of you do that too. But there's also like five million red Subaru Apex in Oregon. All right, maybe five millions of exaggeration, maybe only one. Or red SUVs. Red seems to be the color. My car is red. Yeah. So anyway, finally found my car. I'm soaking wet. I'm done though. Yay. So we get to go home and we should have, it's only just before 11. So there should be plenty of time to get, maybe the things I want to get done before dad gets here and get groceries per annuled outside. Yay, I'll be back. Before I got all of my chores done today, I got some more pigments working. Again, we're just about ready to film that, I think. Caught up my notes on said pigments. I got my sketchbooks, daily drawing books for next month, November, ready to go. And sometime tonight, I think I will just go ahead and finish October. There's three or four days left. I'll just finish the days. We were going to do family dinner night tonight, but we still kind of are, but it's just us and my dad because all the kids are either busy or sick. So if you're sick, stay home. If you're busy, I understand. So, you know, all right. So I don't know, we might make pizza still, but I don't know. We'll find out. I'll be back. Just about lunch, Saturday, October 29th, in case I've messed up videotaping this morning because, you know, it's me. You never know. Anyway, we're headed out for a walk. It's misty. So I have my raincoat on. We did get horrible rain last night. So before it does it again, I'm going to go get some stuff in. Go see what we can see. I've got my bags in my pocket in case I find things I want to try making pigments out of again. Anyway, all right, let's go get it done. I'll be back. Hey guys, I forgot to close the vlog last night. Oops. We had a kind of a busy day yesterday. I kind of had kind of a long to-do list. We got most of it done yesterday. We did a couple more things today, but that's for next week's vlog. Have a good one, everybody. Check the video description for relevant links, ways to support the free content, all of that stuff. I mean, the process of planning and filming, a kind of a big-ish video. The patrons and supporters will get more details than you all will, but you're going to get enough to be able to do it yourself. Anyway, that's coming up. And it's a lot of work, but it's going to be pretty exciting, I think. So stay tuned. Like, share, and subscribe. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you next week. Bye, guys.