 Happy Sunday morning. It is 1034 a.m. ish. Bob is already off to the kids house to help with construction again today and I'm going to go drop off an Amazon return and run a couple of errands and then we'll be home for a day of crocheting and trying to work on my sweater and a couple of other projects. So yeah it does look like it might rain again although we're not supposed to get rain but then we weren't supposed to get rain, thunder, lightning, or hail last night. That's right hail. Here are the clips. Fun right? Alright so I'm gonna go get done what I need to get done and then we'll get back and we'll take it from there. Alright let's get to it. I got a couple of different small crochet projects done. A bunch of chores done and got a loaf of bread in the bread machine cooking. We are going to I could sit and be lazy that's my first instinct. Gotta be honest there and I am still working on my crochet sweater. Did a couple rows and thought instead of sitting on the couch crocheting and eating we should probably go get some steps in. Bob's still over at the kids working on their construction project so I'm gonna do just that. I'll be back. Junior's gone home for the day. He'll be back tomorrow for a couple hours and also on Thursday. Yes I'm not getting as much creative stuff done these days because I'm playing Oma. Can't say I'm too mad about it but now that he's gone while Bob is still working I'm working on my sweater. Yeah I'm good with that. Using my free time hopefully wisely. Maybe? Alright I'll be back. Hey everybody it is 10 30 a.m. Wednesday September 6th. I think I have been up for a bit. I had counseling this morning at 9 a.m. and before and after I was doing that. I was cleaning up my crochet bag. I'm this close to being finished with my current sweater so I was kind of getting ready for the next one. I've also got a bunch of scans of air and I've got to wind up in the cakes and put into their socks and we're going for a quick weekend trip this weekend. Don't have a problem with telling you because by the time you see this I'll be back. Eating taking drawing stuff with me or crochet. I'm not taking both we won't be gone for that long. I have to figure out which one I want to take with me. I'll also say if you do multiple forms of arts and crafts like I do and you love them all when you do go on vacation and you want to take one of them with you which one do you take? Let's do a survey. So anyway all right I'll be back. Oh hey you guys I'm a hot sweaty mess now. How many times have I said with my art room space and probably yours too? You get the main fixtures in place that make you happy and then the products that are in the fixtures get turned on a regular basis. Mine certainly did today. So now the lower part of the bits bank is all fabric and yarn. The upper parts, small bits. This is different kinds of collage bits and paper and there's a few things I put in the closet that I wasn't ready to get rid of because I do use them occasionally. But they don't need to be out on the floor because I'm not using them that much. Mostly it's like cardstock and handmade paper stuff like that. So it's in the closet now. I also purged. Oh the stickers are in here too. I also purged. Are you ready? Art bags. It's not something I do often but yeah it was time I was ready. I do have a bunch of stuff now that I have to relabel but I'm not sure I want to do that today. I'm a hot sweaty mess. The grandson's gonna be here in about an hour and yeah we'll see if I get it done. I don't know. In the meantime that was a much needed but good purge. I've got two grocery bags and a tote bag full of stuff. I'm probably gonna list on the local buy nothing group. See if there's any mixed media artists out there that want any of it. So all right I'll be back. I did get the labeling done. Now I'm a hot sweaty mess. I have the yarn left out that's for my next project. After I finish this sweater I'm working on which I might take with me on our trip that we're going on. Unless I finish it then I might just take the drawing. We'll see in the next couple of days because we leave on Friday. I'm gonna just sit for a bit. Yeah about an hour and just chill. I need that. I'll be back. I got up a bit early today. Well for me because Junior's coming over and Oma's babysitting but I wanted to finish my sweater which I did. I instead of long sleeves I put short sleeves which I really love. I like your all feedback about maybe having him cap sleeves and then I'm gonna be doing another one of these for sure. Cap sleeves maybe would be on the list next time but this is an inexpensive wool sweater. I think it's like a number two. It's pretty thin and a little bit uneven but it wasn't hard to work with and the pattern is fairly easy. I will link both down below and it's not a super soft wool but it's not scratchy either. I don't know if that makes sense. Anyway I have my next project ready to go. I'm hoping I can get this on the blocking board before junior gets here because I do want to block it a little bit but we'll see. Anyway what do you think? I love it. All right I'll be back. Good morning. So I can tell you this because by the time you see this we'll be back ready but we are headed out to California to have a long weekend. We're going to visit with an old college friend. We have a Masonic event. As I said before if you are new to my channel my husband's a Freemason so we have a Masonic event. We also are going to visit with his mother who is going to be 95 years old. You know we all wish to have such a long life right? So anyway we're going to check up on her and visit with her and his brother and his brother's wife and all that stuff. So anyway I'll bring you with us where I can respecting people's privacy and of course we're going to stop at Daiso. I mean you know and while he's doing his Masonic thing I'm going to do a little walking around and probably shopping in a little town that's over there called Murphy's. I think that's the name of it Murphy's and maybe I'm glad we left that was the Xfinity truck. That was. No internet connection probably. Anyway so yeah I'll bring you with me where I can and we're gonna fight Portland traffic and head to the airport because that's a thing. All right I'll be back. I'm in a little town by the name of Murphy's California and this is near Columbia California. We're here for a Masonic event in case I didn't say that yet. There's a little yarn shop here called Maisie Blue. If you like needlework and that sort of thing check them out. Cute little shop. I happened to walk in there when they were having a sale 50 to 65 percent off. That was a problem so yeah good thing I brought an extra bag because now I have yarn to bring home. We're gonna hit a thrift shop and then we're gonna head back towards Columbia and wait for the guys to finish their degree and have a cup of coffee and all that. I'll be back. Two dresses and one I'm gonna leave as is. One is just a black knit fabric which is perfect because I want to I want a black knit skirt and I can't find what I want. I'm gonna just make what I want so I'll just cut off the top of the the dress and um adds molastic and there you go. Anyway we're gonna go find a grocery store now because I need a couple of things and then head over to Columbia. I'll be back. I stopped in the town of Columbia for a little bit and walked around but the guys are not nearly done with their Masonic stuff meeting things they were doing so I'm gonna head back to the hotel and Bob can get a ride with one of them. I'll be back. I'm sitting here in the hotel room once I got back I had a snack I got some coconut water and drank that. I bought 12 skeins I know it's a lot of yarn some really great wool silk and alpaca and I on average they were on sale they were like clearancing them out because the colors are not available anymore and I got them for about seven dollars a skein you guys I got enough for two sweaters such a deal anyway I'm sitting here watching some youtube working on my coloring book and I just heard the loudest crack of thunder and it's raining and we're coming we came to california and it was not supposed to rain it was supposed to be in the 90s and we brought brought shorts no umbrella only flip-flops this is gonna be fun I'll be back hey guys so yeah you can't see me we were in the midst of our masonic dinner and an unexpected thunder and lightning storm again I thought it stopped but it didn't power went out every time we come to california we bring the rain with us we do and we never remember a coat long pants or an umbrella so anyway I'll get you a better video in the car but yeah oh there I am so yeah so we have no power we're oh there we go more lightning we're pretty sure we can still get in the hotel room but we'll find out in a few minutes so yeah this is me sitting in the dark again do we have oh we have a light a little bit of a light anyway we're gonna see if we can get into the hotel room hopefully we can the electronic door lock should be running on a battery our medications are all in the hotel room so that's a thing yeah so anyway it was a great dinner and we finished dinner before the power went out we did and they were bringing dessert up so we got desserts which was great I would have loved a hot cup of coffee but there's no place to have it there's no I think maybe all of Sonora which is the city that we're in right now it might be without power yeah so yeah anyway interesting end to this week's vlog if you want to see what happens tomorrow and how and getting home and how that trip is that for next week's vlog you got to stay tuned all right that's it for now I hope you had a great week um that you're having fun being creative and enjoying life don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video descriptions for relevant links um leave relevant comments down below I do answer all the comments and above all go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we're going to try to get back to the hotel room now let's try yep see you next week