 everybody. It's Sunday morning. I think it's just after 11. Anyway, we are taking Bob's car out, the Willow Red Sports car. We are gonna go out to our favorite garden center, Big Al's, and we need to put gas in his car, and we need to get his mother a birthday card. Mother Erin's is going to be 91, I think, this week. 91 or 92. I've lost track. Anyway, Erin's will be 91. I was right the first time. 91. 91. So we wish her a happy birthday. I think her birthday's Friday. Saturday? No, Thursday. Thursday. Anyway, we're gonna go out and run some Erin's. We'll bring you with us if anything interesting happens. We'll be back. And what I did or didn't say yesterday, I do think I already told the first couple cases of COVID-19 here in my county in Oregon. For those that don't know, I live in Washington County. The first couple of deaths, this person is speeding. The first couple of deaths are not far away in Washington state. To say I'm holding on by the threads edge is the understatement of the century. I'm really trying hard not to give in to the anxiety and run out and stockpile things for six months and shut myself and the family up in the house and not leave. Because yeah, that's a thing. Obviously, I'm in the car, so I am headed out. I'm gonna be smart and use hand sanitizer, which is in the car. I'm going to use tissues, which are also in the car. Stay away from people who are coughing. Only go out for things when I really have to. I have sort of a list of things I'd like extras up on the kitchen counter. And so whenever anybody's going out to go shopping or run an errand, I ask them to take the list and try to get a few of them. That being said, I'm gonna go try to get a couple of things this morning that I forgot yesterday. I'm kind of hoping if I go early this morning, won't be as many people at the grocery store. People are panicking and they're literally clearing shelves. It's like being anywhere after a natural disaster if you live in a place that has earthquakes or anything like that. And you know exactly what I'm talking about. I haven't seen this in a long time. This kind of panic or felt this kind of panic in a long time. So anyway, yeah, I will be going home later and doing some artwork to burn off some energy, just sitting and reading a book, that sort of thing. Because yeah, that's it at the moment. I do have physical therapy this morning, which is the main reason for me going out. I debated canceling it, but I'm not going to do that. The husband also wants to go to the gym tonight, which I told him, I told him that. I said, I don't know. We'll see when I get there. I don't know when the time comes. I don't know. I don't know if I can do the gym, but we'll find out. All right, that's it. I'll be back. Can you tell it's getting near to spring because we're out walking at the normal time of night and you used to not be able to even see my face. And there's just enough light. You can see me. So it is, so Fred is still cold. He's got his hot hands and his gloves. He's cold. Yeah, his leather, old leather motor to cycle jacket. He doesn't ride a motorcycle anymore, but which is a long story I won't get into, but anyway. It's been a long day full of scary, conflicting COVID-19 news. We have six deaths just across the state border from us. Three cases of COVID-19 here in my camp, two of which are in my county in Oregon. One is not. Anyway, people are being crazy and clearing the shelves at the supermarket and you know, people, I have anxiety disorder. I could be a prepper so easy, but I'm not that person that feels the need to go clear out the store shelves and leave nothing for my neighbors or anyone else in the community. That's just all kinds of wrong. Anyway, I got some art in. We're going to get away now and we're going to go walking, take crazy pants for a walk. She's extra hyper right now. Yeah. So we're going to get some fresh air and get to it. I'll be back. I do want to insert more funny things because life is stressful enough. I was just taking some pictures here on my evening walk that I'll post to Instagram later. My stupid phone. It doesn't want to unlock to my face, but it unlocks all the time to my daughter's face. What the hell? Freaking phone. I think she looks a lot like me. I don't know. Right? I don't understand it. All right, I'll be back. I'm obviously in the art room in the regular vlog, the chronic pain vlog. We have a cooking with Fred episode, but it was sort of shot vlog style. So I may, today, the next week's vlog might have parts one and part two. There's a bunch of stuff about COVID-19 and God, I don't even know what else. I did shoot a little video last night during my daily drawings that I'm probably going to go ahead and also edit today and put it in my, directly into my Facebook group, two Facebook groups, a life of art and self-expression and my creative year. It'll probably be direct to them and bypass YouTube. It's going to need a voiceover so I can do some explaining. I did do two drawings, so I might split it in half. I don't know yet. So anyway, I got a shit ton to do and I'm just kind of dragging my feet about it because, you know, anyway, hiding in the house. I do have a gym clothes on. I will probably be going to the gym with my husband later and of course taking all precautions. You can't stop living life, right? But you can be careful and so that will be the motivation going forward. I won't, though, be taking any unnecessary, unnecessarily, blah, blah, blah, any unnecessary chances. We do over the next few months have different events coming up that I need to go to or travel to and that concerns me because I don't know how I'm going to get there without having a full-blown anxiety attack. Some I could drive to even though, you know, I need to add an extra day coming and going to drive there. Others I can't so I don't know. We'll see. Hopefully they'll figure something out by then. All right, that's it for the moment. I better get to editing. I'll be back. 748 a.m. I'm working on my second cup of coffee and my yogurt. I'm going to get online in a minute and chat with some friends for a bit. Yes, I'm still in my pajamas. I was going to get on and vlog last night and just about a couple things and I didn't but my mind isn't any better about them today. So, you know, amid the coronavirus thing, no matter which side of the fence you are on, whether you think it's something pandemically serious or you just think it's a bad flu, when you're asked to be put in quarantine, it's not only for your own safety but it's for the safety of those around you and so why would you not just do that? I know it's not fun but it's for the betterment of yourself and everyone else. There's a man in New Hampshire that just decided he didn't want to be in his quarantine anymore so he left before his 14 days were up so he could go to a party and my husband was telling me last night about a news report he heard at a Travis Air Force Base in California where the quarantined patients and staff, medical staff, are not taking proper precautions. What the frick? It's not the word I want to use. We're better than this, America. We're better than this. That's all I got to say this morning. I'm going to chat with my friends. I will be probably doing some art. I'm going to start probably on that canvas this morning and I'll be working some more on some journal pages and some watercolor today so I'll get you all some video footage when I can and that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey guys, obviously we're out in the garage. You can hear the washing machine in the background. It's Thursday morning, March 6th I think, or 5th. It's Thursday. It's just after 11 a.m. and I'm just I'm staying home today. I'm not really going out if I don't have to. I'm not traveling if I don't have to. Yes, it's because of the virus. I do have asthma and while I would probably be fine I don't want to take any chances so you know I'm a homebody at heart anyway so there's plenty of things for me to do around here and you really don't have to convince me too hard to want to stay home so that's a thing. Anyway I'm doing laundry obviously and I'm going to go feed Bambi and do stuff around the house. I'll probably do some water coloring later. I'm still working through Jean Hain's book, Paint Yourself Positive so I'll be working on that and I have a painting I started yesterday. If you're watching this clip you've seen that one already. So it's been a productive day and I also have to update the website and get some Etsy store ads created and posted on social media so I need to do that today or tomorrow too so it's not like I don't have plenty to do. Anyway what are you all up to and how are you handling the coronavirus issue? I'd love to know. How are you staying calm? How are you working your way through it? All right that's it for the moment. I'll be back. It's 6 20 p.m. We made a quick early dinner. We had breakfast for dinner. I made some homemade biscuits and we had sausage and eggs and gravy and I'll put a picture here. Anyway now Becca and I are going to go brave the grocery store because I really don't want to go this weekend. There's going to be like five million people there so we're going to go do it now. She wants to get out of the house anyway. She doesn't mind being my chauffeur. She shrugged her shoulders but we'll be back. Hey guys how are you? It's Friday March 6th. I know I said yesterday was the 6th. Yesterday was the 5th my mother-in-law's birthday. She's 91. Everybody's saying happy birthday to Betty. Anyway it is still morning because it's just after 11 a.m. I'm headed over to physical therapy which I feel safe doing because not only am I taking lots of precautions and I've got gloves and sanitizing wipe and hand sanitizer and tissues in the car but it's a facility that is only orthopedics. You generally don't see people there coughing and sniffling. If they're doing that they're not at that building. The whole building is just orthopedics so I'm going to just go do what I need to and then come home and take precautions while I'm doing it. We still I'm sure it's going to change at some point but we have three confirmed COVID-19 cases in Oregon and over 60 negative tests that we're done so that's good news for the moment. I'm sure it's going to change at some point the next two weeks we'll tell but for the most part everybody in my community seems to be taking a lot of precautions which is good. I live in a community that's a lot of folks that are 40 plus and a lot predominantly 60 plus so really trying hard to take care of our seniors because they're the ones that are most vulnerable. Not to mention those of us myself included who already have pre-existing conditions like lung issues like asthma so you know that's the thing. I have a sister with an autoimmune issue and you know my parents are both elderly so mom is 79 I think. Mom must be 78 so dad's 80 so you know yeah anyway we're all trying hard to be cautious going to go do what I need to. If you're watching this though you saw me getting a few fun things done this morning I watched CVSL access I caught up on station 19 which I am a fan of. I was going to start with Star Trek Discovery again but I knew I'd probably miss my appointment if I did that because yesterday I intended to do a whole bunch of stuff I ended up just sitting and watching Star Trek Discovery like literally most of the day. Anyway I think I'm up to episode 7 or episode 8 or of season 1 I don't know. Anyway so I caught up on station 19 and then the clips that you've seen if you're watching this are of me mixing some custom paint colors for myself including my own version of Naples Yellow and a my version of Pains Gray I am running out of both and while I have reordered some of them I want to use up what I have first and I have lots of paint I thought I could do that with and I was right so I got that done and I made some more watercolor artboards also a good thing which I love doing. Anyway I've got people tailgating me because you know that's a good thing. Alright I'm going to go to physical therapy and I'll be back. Hey guys it's Saturday morning March 7th I got no idea what time it is I just know it's not lunch time yet I think it's around 10 10 30 somewhere in there. Anyway it's a partly cloudy day typical for Oregon overcast little drizzly but the sun's so bright any glasses sunglasses. Anyway family's headed out to the gym I'm gonna go for a walk because I'm not feeling very peepily today and uh yeah I'll take you with us let's go all right with me let's go. Oh and it's 10 0 8 a.m so yeah and no I don't have Lily with me because I can't control her by myself so anyway let's go I'll be back. I don't know which vlog this will go into but maybe both it's nice to be out in the fresh air even though it's a little cold and looks like it's going to rain at any second but it's there's not hardly any people around I can get some nice clean fresh air get some steps in so much more enjoyable than the gym. I do go to the gym when I can't get out here and do this it's not my favorite place even without COVID-19 so anyway thankfully I live in a place where I feel relatively comfortable walking the neighborhood by myself unlike the old house yeah so that's a thing all right I'll be back. It's a challenge to be out here doing the walk by myself and not have GPS running in the background for those that don't know I have absolutely no sense of direction and get lost a lot so anyway I think I'm good though we'll see you guys it is 10 o'clock on Saturday the 7th of March I'm just putting my black paper doodle bag away um not a long day but it's been a good one I'm keeping myself busy staying away from any and all discussions on COVID-19 taking the needed precautions that I need to take keeping mindful of what's going on but staying away from the crazy the craziness right because there's a lot of that out there and I don't I don't need to be involved in that um it's making me insane I put some pens away up here I don't remember where but oh here right in front of me here we go anyway um it's been a fun day and there's been a lot of sort of bonus art footage for you all this week I hope you enjoyed it leave something in the comments below and if you're watching this ending for the chronic pain vlog um because I'm going to give you all both the same ending it's been a stressful week but um and my knee hurts today because I had therapy yesterday that I went walking last night I'm not walking again this morning then I twisted it a little bit so it'll be all right when it feels better right anyway I'm looking forward to tomorrow I think we're just getting stuck in at home um we're taking advice from the CDC and their World Health Organization and you know not leaving the house unless we have to and being mindful when we do and washing our hands and yeah I don't think we have anything to do anyway so I think we're gonna just stay home it's all good all right that's it for now I hope you all have had a great week don't forget to like share and subscribe support your creatives here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups of which that I know there are many artists that do both um we all have ways that we seek support from you all that enjoy our content um whether it's an etsy shop or a paypal tip jar or patreon or something so check out my video descriptions I've got lots of ways you can do that I know most of the other artists here on youtube have that too so check it out um yeah I think that's good don't forget the most important thing um leave if you have any questions comments or concerns leave it down below and the most important thing of course is go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later