Good Monday morning I am thinking of that song from the episode of Friends where Joey sings the Good Morning song with his neighbor:
“Morning’s Here
The Morning is Here
Sunshine is Here
The Sky is Clear
The Morning’s here
Get into Gear
Breakfast is near
The Dark of the Night Has Disappeared”

I Love this song and would love it even more if Joey Tribbiani was here to sing it to me.

What a crazy week it was last week it flew by but seemed to last forever at the same time.  Do you ever have weeks like that?  The temperatures here have been crazy with highs every day in the mid to upper 70’s.   But never fear the rain is here today and cooler so it feels more like February well almost March now.

Here are three of my current WIP’s (work in progress)  much the same way that I can’t just read one book at a time I can’t work on one piece of knitting so I have two pairs of socks and a scarf that I am working on. The good thing here is they will all get finished about the same time.

My friend Lorie S told me about an estate sale on Friday. I went after work and discovered that on Saturday everything would be 50% off so I decided to go back on Saturday morning. I saw a couple of handmade baskets I thought I would get on Saturday. But you can probably guess what happened I got there about an hour after it started and the baskets were gone.  I did snag these two lamps for only $7.00 each.   The larger one will need some polishing with brasso but I think it will look nice I may add another shade as well.

And I saved the best for last this little guy joined our family last week. He is a rescue. Pretty sure he is a Yorkie. He is an old boy the vet thinks maybe 8 years old. He has cataracts and doesn’t see very well but he is the sweetest baby you have ever met. We named him Scruffy for obvious reasons.  Our girl dog Molly is not too happy with him but she’s starting to adjust.

I hope your Monday has been happy. ❤️

It has taken me several days to be able to write this post.  At first I started not to. No one really knows a lot about me.  I mean I just started this blog a couple of weeks ago I don’t have to share anything right?  But I wanted to because this blog will be a part of me and a place where I will be able to share things in my life.  So with a deep breath here goes:

Last week my older brother Allen died.  He was a wonderful person.  I couldn’t even begin to tell you in this short space what a great brother, father, husband, son, grandfather, friend etc. that he was.  He was a veteran.  He has had some medical issues for several years and just last month had a double bypass.  He was at home after the surgery but he never seemed to fully start to recover.

I was a late in life child so my brother was a teenager when I was born,  I come from a large family of seven children,  he was the most fun and he had such a wonderful sense of humor.  He played games with me and my younger brother.  We played “Name That Tune”  he would use his cassette tapes and stop the tape player just before the title of the song was sung.  He took us to the movies and to play ball.  When I was just a toddler I would climb into bed with him every morning and he would tell me the most wonderful stories.

Saturday February 10th was his Birthday I called him.  I had been battling a cold and didn’t want to risk getting him sick.  I only talked for a couple of minutes because his breathing sounded labored.  I told him when he got to feeling better that we would have a huge celebration.  I told him I loved him.  On the following Tuesday he quietly passed away.

So we did have the celebration with tears, laughter, lots of food, you know how we are in the south.  We had visitors that we hardly ever get to see.  We had singing and music  and flowers and we told stories over and over again.  We had to have the celebration without my brother Allen physically being there but I have no doubt he was with us in spirit and will continue to be every day.

Goodbye to my brother Allen until we meet again.

Hello and welcome to Southern Patches.  This is a place I like to share my favorite things such as travel, photography, knitting and shopping.  I think every day is an adventure join me and we will have some fun.

This blog is named after my beloved Basset Hound Patches who passed away two years ago.  I miss her every day and she is still a huge part of my heart.

Eiffel Tower and socks I am knitting, two of my favorite places to be.