 laying y'all up right there because I'm too lazy to go over to the table and get the cell phone good morning everybody it is sunday morning times at 9 21 a.m. sunday november 21st good vibes good vibes anyway um so shirt i bought yesterday it's a medium you guys it's a medium oh yeah you know i still have my high school graduation ring i haven't been able to wear it in years not that i would wear it why would you wear that something like that but i'm just kind of wondering if i can get it on my finger i might have to try that later today if i can't i can't but that would be interesting a medium i haven't worn a medium and i can't remember when anyway hi how is everybody i hope you're all having a good sunday we just started our day i do think we're puppy sitting um lily this week or this today not this week just today um while polyus and his dad do some more work on their kitchen reno his dad flies up from california um as many weekends as he can right now to help polyus with remodeling their kitchen polyus's father is a contractor by trade and um among other things he's done a lot of things in his life archerist but um he is a very talented contractor and so he comes up to help the kids out with free labor and advice and um yeah and he's teaching polyus the tricks of the trade and um yeah i hope polyus learns a lot because i need some stuff done around here anyway uh we're so i think for the most part we're going to be home today and we do have a carload full of donations now and i've got that book list i've got to work on um because we're going to donate a whole truckload or a whole back load of books to the local donation place there's just no good way to resell them i'd love to do that but you don't you get pennies on the dollar literally and yeah so i'm going to just donate them and then they'll go on to a good home and earn the you know place i donate them to some money so that's it's all good all the way around good vibes all the way around so in the meantime i will make a list for our tax accountant because it is a write-off i don't normally do that but in this case we will because it's quite a chunk of money anyway uh hey guys this is my high school graduation ring i graduated in 1981 from fremont high school in sunny veil california it is well worn well aged tarnished i haven't been able to wear it since shortly after i graduated so let's see what happens oh my god you guys holy cow that's amazing okay it's just before lunch on sunday and it is all of 37 degrees outside and we have decided to go for a walk 37 37 it's cold anyway and yes my hair is clipped back because now that it's growing out it's in my face all the time anyway we are gonna go for a walk i put my old orthotics in my tennis shoes and the hopes that maybe it will help alleviate some of the annoyance my knee is feeling at the moment so we'll try that for a few days and see if that helps anyway we're going to go for a walk and see what we can see take nut job not bob the dog uh for a walk and uh i'll be back guys it's monday morning 9 32 a.m. november 22nd pretty sure it's the 22nd see the 22nd i already was checking on the computer and social media i did some physical therapy exercises on my knee because i'm trying to avoid having another cortisone shot it may be necessary at some point but i don't want to have that done if i don't have to so anyway i'm gonna go sit down and rest it for a little bit maybe after i take a shower um anyway we have some stuff we need to do um um which not only include getting rid of all those donations in the back of my car because you literally can't get anything else in the back of my car for all the books and shit that are back there so we're gonna take care of that today so anyway bob is off this week for Thanksgiving and yeah let's get going shall we i'll be happy to god to do the book donation or stuff donation yet mostly it's books um because bob is working on the car he's not quite ready yet he's working on the barracuda uh that's okay i edited the vlog i got it all edited i am gonna save i think three clips out i'm gonna think i'm gonna try to do a youtube short and there's one clip of me working on that that i included a sped-through clip in the vlog but i think i'm going to do a longer non-sped-through but non-talking clip of the patrons that will go on that channel so i've got at least two more maybe three more videos to edit so i got shit to do while he's working on the car so it's fine all right and you know the table is semi-clean yeah that's only because i haven't taken the paper clusters out yet so there you have it i'll be back it's 4 30 p.m on tuesday i want to say february holy cow november 23rd and i don't think i've logged yet today oops so we spent most of the day today just relaxing or lazing around the house because the cleaning lady was there and my neighbor has yet another neighbor with christmas decorations so yeah bob isn't too happy of the camper anyway we're behind the times we need to get ours up uh anyway um my knee is still bothering me i have good days and bad days with it but i think i'm going to go ahead and bite the bullet and go to the knee doctor tomorrow bob's gonna go with me and if they'll let him he'll come in with me and i guess maybe i'll get a cortisone shot we'll see definitely physical therapy be making knee exercises part of my routine you know i've worked on everything else why not that i've been lax uh lax in my knee exercises and we did a little bit of traveling recently as you all know and i didn't wear a brace to prevent my knee from doing anything it shouldn't and all of that stuff i just yeah anyway we're gonna take care of it now and do what we can so anyway try not to step on a slug because they're kind of all over the place all right i will be back we're gonna go see what we can see and uh maybe take a few pictures of the pretty sunset i'll be back so it is wednesday november 24th 11 45 am i almost said p.m anyway um i need to do the breakfast dishes i already checked on social media corrected a couple of things in the rt trio facebook group that i forgot to do on my post because this month is my month and um anyway um so yeah so all that happened we had a phone call with a dear friend of ours from california who i didn't know one of his kids lives up this way i had no idea um so he's been in town visiting and we are gonna meet up with him before he leaves on saturday um um either tonight or friday not sure which um so that's happening and yeah um i have i think i mentioned in a prior clip i don't know until i edit but i have an appointment with the orthopedic knee doctor guy actually his physician's assistant to look at my knee probably get another cortisone shot set up some physical therapy so i can be better about myself care and my knee exercises you all remind me have you done your knee exercises feel free to nag the crap out of me because it's important bring my knee brace when i'm traveling or going on long car rides high heels or a no i might have to do a shoe purge like i just can't do the high heels anymore much less i need to be better about keeping up with having the right inserts in the shoes i do wear um so i'm gonna have to see a podiatrist to get some custom inserts made and i do have a referral coming in the mail for that i did request that already so yeah all the things for the things because of the things right okay wow lighting is very red that helped a little bit anyway we are on our way to the grocery store i know the night before thanksgiving i know we could have asked the kids to get some more stuff for us but they have enough going on at their house with the kitchen reno anyway we're done at the doctors and i got another shot in my knee and more physical therapy already been there and scheduled it i need to be much better about my knee exercises so we don't have to do this again anytime soon if this doesn't work i'm gonna have to have orthoscopic surgery so let's pray it works shall we all right take care of yourself people go to the doctor when things are bugging you hashtag don't be my mother all right we're gonna go to the doc the doctors we've already done that we're gonna go to the grocery store our list isn't too big but i'm kind of wondering as is he how many things are going to be out of and how crowded it's going to be because it's like the night before thanksgiving it's going to not be pretty i think i'll be back hey guys it is the end of the day what time is it i don't even i got no idea it's thanksgiving day i hope you all had a great one um we had the family over i got one quick clip i'll put it here take the sound out my great nephew kept playing in the dog crate i won't put the pictures but i mean it was pretty funny i think he thought it was hilarious to lock grand dog lily out of her out of her crate i don't i don't know if i can get my computer to open okay anyway but it was a good evening lots of food three courses it's 6 44 p.m everybody's just gone home all the dishes are done except for three glasses everything's drying we have more more people coming over tomorrow um here we haven't seen old friend dear old friends of california one at least one i think he's coming by himself anyway um yeah and we will be putting christmas decorations up maybe tomorrow maybe saturday not exactly sure good footage where i can but anyway busy weekend but it's all good it was a good time anyway i'm stuffed i'm gonna go downstairs after i turn this off and go put my foot up my leg up it's feeling good but i have been on my feet all day cooking and cleaning and stuff so that's it for the minute i hope you guys all had a great thanksgiving that you spend it with family friends loved ones you had a good time and we will see you in the morning bye for now hey guys good morning it is literally two like a couple minutes before noon on friday november 26th the day after Thanksgiving and rocky is just sitting on top of the fence staring at me he's like what are you doing where's my corn bowl yep there he goes tell the kids you need to come over and help us decorate or we're not going to be bothered this year like all the kids are busy on friday like sorry dear that's him it's a very old it's like nails on a chalkboard anyway they can't be bothered they're all super busy so we're doing it ourselves if they don't like it that's not our problem we've also changed our front yard landscaping and so what we used to put out here in the front since we moved in doesn't work anymore so we are going to have to go shopping tomorrow hopefully the hardware stores have stuff i don't know how hard that's going to be we're going to be a couple towns over so we'll probably try some lows and home depot stores out that way and hit if we need to hit a couple of them on the way home looking for stuff we'll see what we can find i don't know anyway we're going to get some lights up above the garage we are not up to doing the gable end because that's really high and scary and i'd rather the husband not do that we will put like there are lights in those two upstairs windows and we're going to put lights in those three windows which we need to buy lights for i know right it's one of the things we need so anyway and we're going to get some light up packages or something for there and maybe a snowman family or reindeer or something for over there and i'd see look at his car that's we're picking up car parts tomorrow which is why we have to go out so anyway we're going to get the lights up then have lunch we might meet up with a friend later we'll see if he has time today before he heads back to california and yeah it'll be a good day i think i'll be back right so it is 9 34 a.m on saturday november 27th i'm pretty sure right yes okay um we are obviously in the car and we are headed out to go buy some car parts for the barracuda and run a couple of errands we don't really expect to find anything that we're looking for errands wise and that would be because we're looking for christmas decor every year we try to find one or two new christmas decor items for the house um this year like everybody started decorating and buying up all the inventory like a month ago and because of the supply chain issues there's just like no more stuff so we'll see what we can find and or we'll make do with what we have we'll see but we have to go get the car parts a couple of towns over from where we normally shop so i don't know we'll see anyway um we're shocked and shocked and saddened this morning to hear of more mall shootings and more smashing grabs around the country especially here on the west coast and what the hell are you all thinking people like come on be decent humans go get a goddamn job all right anyway my rant of the day for two seconds neighbors waving um strangers anyway we're gonna go get what we need to and um see what happens it's rainy day out i was hoping to put some more decor up outside when we got home some lights or something even if i had a diy something but it's raining so i don't know if that's gonna happen but we'll see i'll be back okay guys uh we're in or near organ city westland we're at charquers hardware i'll put their link down below we are buying a few things i like this store well stocked yeah i'd recommend visiting it they have a really nice selection of stuff not just your standard hardware dog treats clothing housewares stuff that's been kind of hard to find and stuff i haven't seen before so check out 45 p.m uh still saturday hold on there we go um we got home we put everything away i think we got the christmas decorations finished outside um i could use more of the stakes to stick your lights around the ground but we made it work with what we have and oh my god hold on do you hear that it was sort of drizzling when we got the yard done i think maybe it's a good thing we got done when we did because it is dumping right now holy crap anyway so we got it done and it's all good and it's all finished had some lunch bob is down in the garage hold on fingers in the way all right um bob is down in the garage um playing with his car parts he is um yeah so he got his barracuda needs a new steering column and the old one was just completely shot there was such so much wrong with it so he got a um brand new one from a company that makes new parts for old cars only it wasn't exactly the same then he found a guy that was local that rebuilds them like new and um so he got one of those and i think he's going to try to return and or sell the other one that he got there's nothing wrong with it it's just more complicated to get it in the car then the one that's the refurb of the original so and they both are going to work equally well so um and when um he was also able to trade in the old shot one to the guy who refurbs them and got some money off on the purchase for that so it's all good and then we found this new as i told you park park rose hardware i guess there's five stores in the area one in portland proper three in vancouver and one in westland we went to the one in westland i like that store it's a small mom and pop chain and prices are a little high but i mean what isn't right now i love their selection of stuff and um yeah i'll be back really impressed anyway uh yeah so we got all that done i'm gonna see what's up with my computer hold on a hair truck fedex but i didn't order anything it's way too early for my medication i don't know what it could be so anyway uh forgot what i was saying i'm gonna see what's up with my computer i haven't done much art up here in the art room since what the wednesday before thanksgiving it's just been too busy the two or three days after a holiday like that are just super busy between the cooking the cleaning the visiting with family um resetting the house for the next holiday um i have to catch up on my daily drawing and artwork and but i can do that downstairs but i'm gonna check on some stuff up here and i don't know if you're gonna let's see just grace with the camera today holy cow my table's not like awful awful but it's just sort of become a dumping ground the last couple days for like parts i've come across and i'm like oh i want to save that i don't have time right now but dump it on the table that's what happens uh anyway um so i'm gonna just check on some things here see what's up check on some social media stuff that i've just kind of unintentionally ignored but you know because life gets in the way um anyway and then turn my computer off and then i'm just gonna leave it off until tomorrow tomorrow i will probably come up here and i'll edit the vlog and i'll um work on smart work i want to catch up on that felix shinberger class that i um paid that i bought um i want to watch some of those um tonight and then maybe i can come up here and do some of the work tomorrow that would be great um so that's the plan anyway so we'll see how it pans out anyway i am gonna close the vlog here we are probably not doing much else today um we're not going anywhere we've got a house full of food that needs eating it's pouring outside i doubt we're going walking i could be wrong but i doubt it so anyway i hope you guys have had a good week i hope if you do celebrate thanksgiving uh that you had a good holiday with family and friends and um if you don't that you just had a great week um that you've made some fun art and or just collected parts and pieces and gathered inspiration go out and see nature do what you can safely stay safe stay healthy stay creative uh we're not past this whole craziness yet and uh go out and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links um when you guys do see this there will still be a sale going on in my etsy shop um it's like a once a year thing 30% off everything in the store the code is down below and my etsy shop social media all that stuff is in the description some of it's in the link tree list links so check it out and i will see you in the next vlog bye guys