 Holy cow, my eye bags look huge. Oh, sorry. Um Hello, everybody. It is just after lunch on Sunday, January 17th. I spent the morning sleeping in having coffee and I filmed a quick journal video and so here I am Fun fact I Hate editing the vlog. I Hate hearing myself talk and it's like Somewhere between one and four hours of video clips of hearing myself talk And I've got to edit it down to 30 minutes or less preferably 20 minutes or less although I don't often manage that and I dragged Bob away from the football and on TV and We're gonna go get some steps in It's a little nippy out, but it's not too bad. I don't think So we're gonna go get some walking in Because we've both been kind of sitting on our butts all day, so You know exercise is a good thing. Try it. Why don't you? All right, I'll be back. Okay, so Here's a little known fact about me to all of you, but a very well known fact to my friends and family I'm a very much a creature of habit I have the same exact two cups of coffee and cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast every day. I Have yeah, it's Bob is saying the same exact thing for lunch. I've almost every day unless we're not home. I Like to walk the same routes Bob's taking me opposite. He's making me do opposite. I like routines. I like the same thing It's okay. I can handle it Maybe We'll see I'll be back Hey guys, it is Monday afternoon January 18th. I think holy cow. I don't know. I think it's the 18th. Let's see. Hold on Let's check the computer. Shall we? Yes, the 18th and it's after two o'clock that I know to 221 not confidently, but yeah, I have to look at the clocks and stuff Anyway, it's just been a slow go this morning. It's Martin Luther King Day here in the United States And so it's a holiday generally plus, you know, hello the inaugurations coming. So Everybody's kind of staying home Not doing it much us included. I Have since we moved in Struggled to do laundry in that we get these Costco size or Jumbo size bottle of liquid laundry soap and they're really heavy to lift up and then pour into the little cup to get into the washing machine and It dawned on me recently because hello and slow to the program sometimes I bet you somebody makes a stand to like sit the bottle sideways so that you know, you can have it just like that with a cup underneath it and fill it up as you go and Sure, they do they make laundry soap stands They're expensive. Holy cow. I looked at them went don't I have a plastic basket or something? I can stick under there Yep, I do hold on So I fixed it for free It may not be the prettiest thing on the planet, but it works for me. So we're out for a walk Before it gets too dark We thought we'd come down to the river here. That's not far from our house And see how high the river was because we kept hearing about the water being really high Yeah, believe it or not somewhere down there is a dock But it's completely underwater and you can't even see it It's really high Holy cow That's crazy Before y'all get too concerned Bob and I aren't in a low-lying area. So don't be worried our house is high so But I'm glad I don't live over here closer to the river Well, I know there's a dock down there somewhere. Yep I can't even see it. I don't see it. It's down there somewhere. Yeah Good afternoon everybody is Tuesday afternoon 305 p.m. January 19th Yeah, cuz tomorrow's inauguration day. Anyway, we are not going anywhere until like Saturday like yeah, nowhere My allergies have been getting the best of me the last couple of days. So that's a thing I need some more cough drops. I Spent the morning And it's just allergies. It's not the big C. Anyway, so that's the sunset view out of our back window How pretty are all those colors Hey guys, it is 405 in the afternoon on Wednesday, January 20th Inauguration day here in the US for our new president Congratulations to president Biden and vice president Harris Anyway, our cleaning lady has been here all day working safely of chorus We stay well not only well out of each other's way. She wears a mask the whole time She's here and if I need to get close to her to talk to her I put one on Anyway, she's still working poor thing she's been here all day Um, okay, you know, it's a crazy time when I'm forgetting to vlog Holy cow My hair looks like Einstein sister I had to trim my eyebrows again because they were starting to resemble Einstein and that you know I have my dad's eyebrows that grow straight out this way. I have to give him a little trim anyway I am headed out to get the mail Okay, I wanted to show you so I got one of the watercolor journals out From my closet that I had and it's a pentallic Um watercolor journal. It's I think it's eight and a half by 11 or something close to that I'll try to find it in the at amazon and link it down below um and inspired by Donna Downey and her Posts on social media about her new class. She's teaching I did this today And I'm really inspired to do some color mixing of some paints that I have and sort of Do sort of a reference practice book Um, she has a class for this so I'm never going to film tutorials for this I can't afford to take a class. It's too expensive. So I'm going to do my own version off camera Um, and you'll see it here. I might do the occasional still shot But again, I'm no tutorials for me if you want to learn how to do it. You should go take her class Um, I will link her website down below if I forget somebody tell me Um, not that her class isn't worth it. I just don't have that in my budget right now So anyway, that's I spent a good portion of the morning working on That painting and playing with that and having fun. I'm gonna do one In my moleskin journal probably before I wrap up today so we'll see about that and I need to Finish the editing first All right, I'll be back Hey guys, I have a feeling this is gonna be the week where I forget to vlog So rather than last week where I had almost five hours of footage to edit to 30 minutes or less This week, I don't know what I'm gonna end up with anyway Good afternoon. It is Friday, January 22nd 207 p.m I was live this morning with patrons and supporters Oh, that reminds me of something I have to do before I forget Um, I'll do it right after I'm done with this And and before that I was talking with someone I haven't talked to in a while a friend Um, she's going through a tough time. So I sang some good thoughts out there for her um Had some lunch so it'll fattled around I did a journal page and some painting papers for the live this morning And I'll share still images of on social media later I have of course other projects I could be doing But I don't know if I want to get started on any of them It's just gonna be one of those days. I think I just took yet another I sent an old picture of myself because you know, god forbid. I'm a professional youtuber or anything Anyway, here's a project that I might be able to do and in the mindset to do Um, that might not take too long. I have these sort of bins like this of crayons and markers I haven't been using them like this and I'm kind of wondering if I changed the way they're displayed up here and or went through the stuff that's up here just decide if there's I really do need everything that's up here I do I have an alternative to this I think I'm gonna play I'll be back things that were there before and replaced them with these drawers already had I used what I had I had a pair of bookmarks in the other room used what I had I sort of yes collect storage containers But I'm really whittling down my collection that when I get these impulses I can just switch out say these drawers back for the other bins that were here I probably won't get rid of them And or I'll repurpose them for somewhere else, but I'm liking this much better And uh, yeah, all of these little things up here. These are my props when I'm I'm taking photos for still lifes. I use these to fruit and different things and so Yeah, much better. I replaced a few labels that label was completely the wrong thing for that bin And I got rid of a few pens and um, yeah I like it. We'll work with it for a little bit. We'll see how we like it And meanwhile, there's a few more things in the purge box for the end of the month All right So yeah, I like the way that looks plus all of these little things And the books were over there on the top of the drawers, which was okay, but it wasn't my favorite thing. So now they're gone from there. So I like that much better Yeah, very much All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back Good morning people. It is just after 10 a.m on saturday january 23rd, I think it's like 10 15 a.m. Ish um Bob and I are getting a later start than I I would have liked Um, but we slept in this morning or at least I did anyway Um, we have a number of different places to go. So it's going to be a little bit of a people-y day But we've literally been home for a week um Not seeing anybody The downside of that it means that all of my Things I need to do have kind of added up. So we don't have to hit a couple of hardware stores the p.o. Box and the grocery store So of course, we're going to do it safely. We're going to mask up and all that stuff and um Yeah, let's get to it. Shall we okay? So we're back from running our errands and we've had some lunch Did a little bit of filming for an upcoming class. I'll be teaching later in the spring But we're getting ready now anyway, we are puppy sitting for a little bit they're there and While the kids run some errands and so we're going to go out for a walk novel idea doing it during the daytime when it's not dark outside It is cold though and it's supposed to get fairly cold tonight and tomorrow we may actually get some snow for the first time this season so We'll see if that happens Anyway, we're going to go see what we can see and get some steps in and I'll be back So it is 6 15 and Bob and I are obviously in the garden we are Heading to go do some Curbside pickup on dinner. So once or twice a week. We try our trying hard now as safely as possible to support the local community and And get take out dinner from a mom-and-pop restaurant or something somewhere tonight. We are trying Jb O'Brien's Irish pub, which is actually walking distance from the house But we've already done more than 10,000 steps today And I don't think either one of us are up to walking down to Jb O'Brien's to get dinner and Then back again and plus it's a really cold tonight. So Yeah, so we're gonna go drive and pick it up I see lights up ahead. It looks like an ambulance. Yeah, you should be able to and then left into that Thing so anyway, we're gonna go do that We hope you all have all had a great week. Don't forget if you can and you're able Safely support your community by doing, you know curbside pickup on a takeout meal or You know if you need I don't know this morning I was looking for pieces for a class that I'm teaching so we went to the local hardware store first rather than the big box store so Do something that you can safely. Let's be kind to one another. Please Support your the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups. I know all of your artists and your small Art supply companies. They're all suffering right now Just like the rest of the world is and they would appreciate the support So please do so check my video link for relevant links for how you can do that or just follow me on social media Um, I know check theirs out too. I know they'd appreciate it. Don't forget to stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative Please wear a mask go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you next week. Bye guys