 It is Sunday, just before lunch. It's about 11.30. The kids are upstairs giving me a new lunch she doesn't like, so that's interesting. Husband's gonna, we have this shampoo or thing for the tile floors, so he's gonna do that today. He was just vacuuming. Basically we're doing what we can and getting used to probably being stuck in going forward at least for a couple weeks. The kids of course aren't real happy about it, but it is what it is. We need to do our part two, delay the progression of the virus. So yeah, keeping ourselves busy when we do go out of the house, being mindful of where we're going and what we're doing and then we're not in crowds. And if we have to do something like go to those shops that we maybe order for pickup or only one of us goes out or y'all get the idea. So anyway, yeah, that's a thing, right? Our new reality. All right, I'll be back. Guys, all right, so Fred and I are in the car. Hi Fred. We are going to go return some stuff to the library. The library is around here. Do close starting tomorrow for two weeks to clean and disinfect and reorganize things to provide for CDC recommendations regarding the virus like social distancing and hand sanitizer and all of that stuff. We are staying home right now as much as possible when we do go out. Generally only one of us is gonna go out. We're only gonna go places we absolutely have to. If God forbid one or more of us become symptomatic then of course we won't be leaving. We're doing our due diligence. That doesn't mean you can't leave the house in our opinion like right now. We are leaving the house together but we're gonna be in the car. We're not gonna be in a large crowd of people. We're not gonna be around people. We might go for a walk later. So we'll be just around each other and nobody else. Right, so just because that you're told to stay home doesn't mean you need to be necessarily stuck in. You live with, I live with him and the kids. So it's not like I can get away by myself not that I would want to. So I can do things with them like going walking and riding in the car. Does it mean we can't go on a long ride? Cause I don't wanna stop at a restaurant or use a public restroom or anything like that. Yes, that's what that means. But we can go on short drives and we can go do things like what we're gonna do now. So we're gonna be doing that going forward. And you know, it is an opportunity also to catch a bunch of things around the house. Like I showed you some footage earlier. Fred was using our shampoo or cleaner thing on the tile, which we haven't done since the kids moved in and we need to be doing it more often than that. The water was gross, by the way. 43 a.m. Press conference about, you know what? In the meantime, I'm working on projects and I'm working on a tool bag from Harbor Freight. I'm doing sort of a sunset ocean scene on it. It's a bag I've had in my stash for a while intending to be painted on. So I'm finally getting to that. I'm not keeping it, Fun Fact. I'm gonna be selling it in the Etsy shop. So if you're interested, message me. My email's in the address, in the description below. I'm also going to be working on filming a kids art video just in a second here. And I'm gonna be linking a document with quite a number of ideas. Fun Fact, I used to have a daycare, in-home daycare business from about 1995 to about 2003. I don't actually remember when I closed it exactly. But we had a in-home learning thing that we did, a schooling, and we had arts and crafts and all kinds of things. And so I had recipes for homemade Play-Doh and homemade snow globes and all kinds of different things that you could do with the kids. So I went and fished them all out of the old archive files from the old website, which is not online anymore. The said files are on my computer. Anyway, I formatted the information into a PDF document. I'll link it down in the description below. And in the kids art video, it'll be linked to if they let me do a description. Fun Fact, I don't know. Otherwise, I'll talk about it. And I will probably put something about it over in the Facebook group, a life of art and self-expression. I'll share it where I can. And it will be shareable for you guys to like forward to whoever you want. Yeah, I'm also gonna put it on my blog. I'm gonna spend today updating the website finally and all of that stuff. So yeah, it's gonna be interesting for you weeks staying home. But I have plenty of projects to keep me busy. So I don't know about you. Yeah, so I'm gonna work on that. The website's long past needing to be updated. I haven't updated it since the beginning of the year. Literally everything that happened, I got completely sidelined. So we're gonna take a deep breath. We're gonna work on that. And we're gonna work on doing what we can to do our part to help our worldwide community, right? To stop the spread. And I'm gonna keep myself busy and keep my family healthy and catch up on projects. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Yeah, I'm sitting in the stairwell. Diligence and maintaining social distance while still getting some fresh air and exercise. Well, mostly Lily, where is she? There, she's back there. You know, I can't run like that. Are you kidding with my knee? Yeah, no. Anyway, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Tuesday, March 17th. I think it's St. Patrick's Day. It's been pointed out to me a couple of different times today that I've forgotten all about St. Patrick's Day. I didn't buy any corned beef and cabbage. It's the first time in a long time. But it's been a weird year so far. I think you'd all agree. I spent the day doing some more kid art videos, creating a new intro and ending for them. I'll be doing a few more of them for the channel during this crazy time. I did finish the Harbor Freight Toolbag I was painting. I'm not sure I like how it turned out, but there, this is right out the storm, has art on the two ends, and then in peace and freedom. So message is good. I don't know if I like how it turned out, to be honest with you. I'm not keeping it. I'm giving it away. So if one of you all would like it, let me know. I've decided I'm not gonna sell it because I don't, it's okay. It's not my favorite thing. But anyway, you let me know US only please. So somebody messaged me. Maybe we'll have a giveaway, I don't know. First one to message me gets it, I don't know. Anyway, my mouse died at the end of what I was doing. So to plug that in, the desk is a mess again. We've created, I need to work on mission inspiration. So I printed that out. So I've got that one. And then I created a new word list just for kids. That'll be in the kids art video. We're gonna work on daily drawing tomorrow. A kid's only video for that. So yeah, it's just gonna be a weird time. And we're gonna do what we can and stay home. Paulius I think had his last day working in the office today. He's gonna be working home from now. And I think, and he said there was scarily, eerily no traffic on the freeway. So Portland's not as crowded as California, but usually there's pretty bad traffic on the way home. And today there wasn't. So I guess that's good. We need to all do our due diligence, right? Anyway, I'm gonna go sit down and have some water and just chill for a minute before I start cooking dinner. And yeah, I'll be back in the morning. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, I said earlier, I think that it's been a weird day, but in light of the current worldwide situation, I think it's gonna be more weird days than not. I don't know. I looked at the pictures I took of the bag that I painted. It may be not as ugly as I think it might be. I don't know. Maybe, I don't know, dear. I don't think it turned out too well. Anyway, we're doing our due diligence and staying healthy and going out for a walk while maintaining a social distance from everybody else around us. So anyway, we're gonna go get some exercise and I'll be back. Hey guys, so it's talking to you from the garage lately. What is with that? Anyway, it is Thursday morning. It's about nine o'clock or so. We're expecting our contractor over in a bit. He's gonna be working on a leaky window, fixing that and getting that all straightened up. I was just digging out some paint cans from, so he had at least the formula from the paint can for touch-up paint. I don't know if there's enough in the cans to do what he needs, but we'll find out, I guess. Listening to this morning's press conference from the White House. I've watched more political crap since this whole virus thing started than ever, I think, in my whole life, at least since Watergate that dated me, didn't it? Daily stroll. I was gonna say evening, Fred corrected me because as you can see, light outside. We're going before dinner. Bonus benefit to the kids living with us. The daughter is home keeping an eye on dinner and finishing up cooking dinner while I go for a walk with dad and the dog. I'm good with that. Gotta take our joyful moments where we can, right? All right, I'll be back. It's Friday morning, March 20th, 7-0, it says 6-0-1, that means it's 7-0-1, right? It's 7. My clock in here, like, 7-0-1. 7-0-1, yeah. We are, Fred Meyer just opened, they opened at 7. We intended actually to leave the house a little earlier, but we needed to have, we were gonna go try to get a few groceries that I was unable to order for delivery for Sunday. I don't know how this is gonna go. The crazy mad house, there might be nobody there. We don't know. So we'll find out and we're gonna, we've got our hand sanitizer, we've got baby wipes, Clorox wipes, we've got some Popsicle sticks to push buttons. We've got gloves if we need them. So yeah, anyway, let's go get, try to get some groceries, we'll find out. We learned two things about early morning grocery shopping. Number one, do it any day except Sunday, because Fred Meyer does, I mean, Friday, because Fred Meyer does not get restocking deliveries on Friday. So do it any other day of the week. Also, while there's more people here than expected, it's mostly a crowd our age or older and everybody's very respectful. And I think it's way less crowded than it probably is at two or three o'clock in the afternoon. So, and we've tried a late evening. I don't think it was any more crowded than the late evening one, do you? No, it wasn't. But I think people were more respectful and less panicky. Yeah, maybe this isn't even quite a week yet. Maybe, so I think if we can't get stuff via grocery delivery, we'll be doing this again where we just get up at the butt crack and come into the grocery store. So we've sanitized our hands and we're back in the car and now we're gonna go home and unload and have some more coffee because I really need more coffee. Still no toilet paper, no paper products, no hand sanitizer, no Clorox wipes. No Clorox spray, no none of that. No flour, not a lot of baking things. I did order flour in the grocery delivery. Am I gonna get it? I have no idea. No sugar. I'm actually thinking about going to the King Arthur website and seeing if I can get some flour from there. I'm doing more baking now that we're home for a couple of reasons. One, we all need something to do and two, we can't get stuff. So... We're not going out to eat. We're not going out to eat. So I've been doing more cooking, which is fine. I do like cooking. So yeah, so I think we'll see what comes in the Sunday grocery delivery and if I don't get my flour that I want, I might just go order some from King Arthur if I can. So we'll see. Yeah, we're gonna fill up with the car with gas on the way home because that's something you should all be doing is making sure, like in any other natural disaster that your cars have a full take. Yep, always making sure. Yeah. Fill it up and you get halfway. Yep. So we're gonna go do that on the way home and then I guess head home and hunker down. The kids get their keys to their new house today. So during this whole virus thing, other than staying home and doing these every couple of week crazy grocery shopping trips, we're gonna be only going to their house. Like our places we're going are very limited. So I did kind of feel bad about lecturing them last night and I've done it a few times about when they go out like to the hardware store or whatever to like be super clean. I don't know that both of them are taking it. This whole thing seriously. I actually think Polyas is taking it much more seriously than our daughter, Rebecca. You think? Yeah. So they've been getting a few mom lectures, but that's okay. A few? I'm trying to control it a little bit. I really don't want to get sick. Not right now. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. It's just after three o'clock. A little short kids art video. One of them's for tomorrow and I don't know what tomorrow or Sunday are gonna play out to be. So it is Saturday afternoon. I don't know what time it is. I have no idea, but it's the 21st. The kids new house is their backyard. Do some cleanup. It is a fixer. So they've got some stuff to do to it before they can move in. So we're here landing at the end. One of the few things we can do in the social isolation world trying to maintain, right? We keep finding interesting little things left by the former residents. I guess it was a mom and her two sons and mom passed away and the sons needed to sell the house, which is sad, but you can tell the house was well-loved and lived in and I found an interesting recipe. I'll put a picture here for mom's grape nut pudding, which doesn't sound good anyway. I'll get some video where I can and I'll be back. The background, I don't know what it's gonna do It is Saturday evening. I don't think it's six o'clock yet. Anyway, we spent the majority of the day at our daughter and future son-in-law's new house. And it's a fixer upper. So there's some things that need to do with it and or want to do with it before they actually move in. Bob and I have actually never accomplished that. We always have to move in amongst the construction. So kudos to them for accomplishing something I've never done. So they're gonna be doing a certain amount of new construction remodeling before they move in. So they'll be here a few more weeks. They're making great progress. The old owners left a few things behind and I have them on my table. I brought a few things home. I mean, you know, we went through some was junk. There's a pile of donations. They left a bunch of these plant clips, brand new bags for growing vines and things. We understand from one of the neighbors, the lady who owned the house, lived there with two of her sons and she's the one who passed away and she loved her vines and her flowering plants. So these are probably what those were from. I'm thinking maybe I might be able to use them as clips to clamp some of my art together while it's drying like my paper clips and stuff. So I'll let you know how that works. There's a bunch of little things like refrigerator magnets. Like this is an iron. There's an old Mr. Coffee Coffee Pot. And some things like that I brought home with me also. This kind of cool old pair of scissors that I found, metal scissors. I wanna try to clean up and maybe sharpen. We'll see. Oops, I don't know how low-sharping. Oh, they're whisk. That's actually a good brand of scissor. Yeah, so I wanna work on that. Some little like pill boxes that don't look like they've ever been used. I thought this one might be nice for a really small like emergency watercolor kit emergency, because it's emergency, right? It has three colors in it. So you can get your three primaries in there, which would work just great. And then this one that had four. So a bunch of keys. Yeah, so there was a bunch of little things. So I liked the message on this magnet. Yeah, so anyway, it was fun. Helping them get the house ready, helping them move in. Here's another one. I don't remember seeing this one, but I brought it home. Huh, okay. Anyway, and of course Snoopy. Anybody who knows me knows I love Snoopy, so. Anyway, so it was fun. Well, we spent the morning majority of the day there and we went through a bunch of stuff that needed to be sorted through for them. Got a pile of stuff ready to get rid of and also removed a whole bunch of hedges in the front of their house. Bob and I are pooped. Bob did most of the work, but I helped especially at the end and yeah, we're both exhausted. So anyway, that's it for this week. It's been interesting and it looks like it's gonna be interesting going forward with everything that's going on, right? But I will share my journey with it with you and I will share how I'm coping and I will share when I'm not coping so well. And maybe we'll just try to get through this together. Oh, I do wanna say I found this really cool mini stapler. I don't know if I have staples that'll fit it, but it looks like the ones for the Tim Holtz stapler might fit it, so. I'll find, I'm not gonna look at it today, but it was pretty cool, had to come home. Anyway, if you're having any particular ways of making it through what we're going through in the world right now with this virus, let me know, let's share, let's start a conversation. Join me either in the Facebook group, Art Play Through Chronic Pain or A Life of Art and Self-Expression. The first is my friend Cindy Utter's group. The second, A Life is My Group. Let's start a conversation over there. Let's talk about how we're getting it through, how we're coping with everything that's going on, how we're managing to do our art and how we're using it to keep us on a sane and even keel, right? All right, that's it for today. I hope you guys have all had a great week. Don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links. Don't also forget to look at not only mine, but any of your favorite YouTubers, video descriptions, all of them, myself included, have ways you can support the free content, whether it's Patreon or an Amazon affiliate link or a PayPal tip jar or something, an Etsy shop, it doesn't matter, go check out their description, find out what they have, click on the one that works for you, especially in this time when we're all struggling, we so, so, so appreciate it and appreciate you so very much. So that's it for today, that's it for this week. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Get some fresh air, get a walk, hang with your family. This is just time to do that, we can't go anywhere else, but count those precious moments with your family because it's so important. That's it for now, I'll see you later, bye guys.