Author: Lisa -Southern Patches

Hello everyone, my name is Lisa I am a southern girl born and raised in East Tennessee. I love discovering new places and things to do. I have a lot of favorites, shopping, traveling, knitting and photography are all at the top of my list. I am married with my fur babies my only children. This blog is actually named after my beloved basset hound Patches. She passed away a few years ago but will always have a huge part of my heart. Come with me and we will explore some wonderful places and discover some really fun things. Are you ready?

A Shiny New Month

Happy November I can’t even believe I am saying that. Not only is it hard to believe that November is here but that the end of the year is near. I love November it is my husband’s Birthday month, Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas time and enjoying the early nights and cooler days. I just love it all.

I meant to post this last night but I came home from work ate dinner and sat down for just a few minutes, well that was the plan. Scruffy snuggled onto my lap and it was just so deliciously warm and cozy that I fell asleep. I got up about an hour later and went to bed. The cool nights make great sleeping weather.

It was a quiet weekend this past one. I did a lot of cleaning at home. I actually hadn’t meant to spend the weekend cleaning. The weather was cold and cloudy and I had every intention of staying at home and binge watching Gilmore Girls and knitting. But when you have lots of animals lots of cleaning is required even when your knitting is calling you. I did get a few stitches in here and there and read a few pages of my book.

I have been going to the assisted living village to eat lunch with my mother in law a couple of times a week. She doesn’t do very well getting out anymore. I go down a couple of times a week and bring lunch from SONIC. She loves their hamburgers. This gives us some time to chat and breaks up the day to day she has at the village. She always insists on paying me $2.00 for the hamburger. This is usually her winnings from playing bingo. LOL.

The kittens love this basket. I stepped into the garage yesterday and all four were crammed into this basket. It is just the cutest thing.
This absolutely scares me to death. This is Buster but he is not the only one who likes to get under the cars. You should see the roundup we have to do before we leave every morning. We try to corral all the kittens and Mama cat to make sure they are nowhere near the cars.
We had lots of rainy walks over the weekend. As soon as the rain would stop we would dash outside for a quick walk and some fresh air.
See the crane? I am sure she has eggs close by.

The weather right now is just my absolute favorite. I drive to work every morning with my head whipping from side to side like the girl in that movie the exorcist. I just can’t get enough of all the fall beauty. I’m usually brought back to reality when a horn honks and drivers are yelling for me to speed up. I just can’t help myself.

This is a busy week for the fur babies. Molly had to go to the vet today to get an allergy shot. Scruffy is scheduled for tomorrow because he is scratching like crazy and actually pulling some of his hair out. I’m not really sure what is going on there. And all of the kittens, all four of them, are scheduled to go to the vet on Friday morning for a follow up check up and to determine when we can have them all spayed and neutered. You can see why I am never going to be able to retire. Heck I may have to take a second job just to pay for the upkeep on these babies.

Our Kitty Kitty. She is still the Queen of all the kitties. And she knows it!!!!

How is your week going?

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!!

Painting Pumpkins And An Estate Sale

Cool mornings, leaves falling, wood smoke in the air. Fall is my favorite time of year. I may have mentioned that a few hundred times. I want to grab every day and cling to it and savor it. The colors here are changing but not as quickly as they have in past years. We have had really warm weather so we still have a lot of green on the trees. This week the temps are supposed to be cooler so maybe some color changes are coming.

That’s actually Scruffy going through the woods looking like a wombat or something.

Saturday I went to an estate sale in Madisonville. I love these sales. The location of the sale is in the same place each time. The items from the estate are brought in and the sale starts on Thursday with everything being full price. On Friday everything is 25% off, Saturday 50% off and on Sunday some items are 75% off. I usually go on Saturday because I am off from work. Although I have gone a few times on Thursday just to scope it out and see what treasures might be available.

I saw lots of things that I was interested in. I always walk through the entire building several times. There are several rooms within the building. There is also a bid box. If you see something you want but don’t want to pay the asking price you place a bid in the box along with your phone number. If the item is not sold the highest bidder will get the item. Of course when you do this you are taking a chance on losing out altogether.

I just loved this painting of the girl with her cat. I really love the red color of her dress. I think it will stand out anywhere I hang it. And it was half off of the price listed!!!! Score!!!
I loved this little teapot. I just had to get it. I am thinking I may give it to a friend. It’s adorable.
Look at these wooden stockings. They spell Merry Christmas. They are hand painted By the man this estate belonged to. They were priced at $65.00, well half of that, and that was a little high for me. I was talking to the man who conducts the sale and I told him I was going to place a bid in the bid box. He asked how much I was going to bid and I said $25.00. He told me I could have them for that. Yay!!! He said that he had put them out and taken them back a few times for himself but he just didn’t know if he would actually get around to hanging them. I promised him that I would and I would bring him a picture. I love them. They are really old.
I added this wooden Santa for my Santa collection. His arms move. I don’t have one like him.

I try to reason with myself that bringing items in only creates more clutter. But I also promise myself to continue with my decluttering that I have been working on. Yes I know not bringing it in to start with would technically kill two birds with one stone but what is the fun of that. I also got a couple of old books. One of them has a stamp on the inside with a date of 1916.

Sunday was the usual laundry, cleaning and taking care of all the fur babies. Molly and Scruffy both needed a bath. I made banana bread and cooked dinner both Saturday and Sunday. Spaghetti on Saturday night and then a rice and grilled chicken bowl on Sunday night. It was delish. I also got a little knitting in and finished painting my pumpkins.

I gathered these rocks out of the flower bed last week. As I saw one that I thought would make a good pumpkin I would add it to the collection I had on the entry table near the front door. Mark kept asking what I was going to use all the rocks for. I said they’re not rocks they’re pumpkins. I had to put numerous coats of the orange paint on them and let them dry in between. I think they turned out pretty well, just time consuming.

So I gathered the rocks:

I put the first coat of paint on them and I was pretty discouraged.

So I added SEVERAL more coats of paint. Letting each coat dry in between applications. Luckily they dried fast.
They were starting to look a little better.

And this is the way they turned out.

So back to work today and a busy week ahead. How are you? How was your weekend?

Always remember

Love your day your way!!!!