I am a Victorian Soul, who lives in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion!! I just recently lost my Hubby Joe, who was a Retired Letter Carrier. I worked night shift as an RN on a Hospital based Rehabilitation( Physical Medicine) Unit for 37 years before I had Knee Replacement Surgery and officially Retired in 2019 after 41 years working in Direct Patient Care ... I am so glad that we retired at 62 years of age and got to spend that time together before he passed....I still do love Retirement!!!!

I DABBLE IN A BIT OF THIS AND THAT!!!!

" IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN"
George Eliot
George Eliot was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans......

BLOGGING FOR FUN AND FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!

Thursday, July 9, 2026

June Goals Update and July Monthly Goals, 2026

 

  

 

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

 
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
 
Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....
 
 I feel it is a personal Journal that, hopefully, someday, my Twin Granddaughters will be able to look back on to learn about who I was.... 

I will be posting 3 times a week on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS....
 

As always, click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it....
 
 
 PINTEREST
 
If you would like to Pin my pictures, please click on them to enlarge them to do so....
 
 
 A NOTE ABOUT COMMENTS
 
I enjoy reading your comments and will return the favor by visiting and commenting on your blog or reply to you directly here if you do not have a blog but I do have my comment section set to Moderation due to spammers and hackers so your comment will not appear immediately...
And since I have a very busy life, like most of us do, it may take me awhile to return your comments but I promise I will....
 
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In my last post, I shared  that a tree fell down into my back yard that grew up in the yard behind my next door neighbor's yard..... 

 

 

  Click HERE if you missed that post!! 

 

Update....THE TREE IS DOWN and WOW!!  Does my yard look different as the shade is gone!!!

 

 

 


More in a future post.......

 

 And now for a few Personal Notes...
 
 
 For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts.... 
 
On THURSDAYS, I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...
 
  
  
I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any.... 
  

 
On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything... 
 
 
 
 Since it is Thursday, I will be sharing what I served for my Family July 4th Celebration Dinner, which we had yesterday as my son Jim had an appointment that he forgot about....
 
From the Amish Farmer.... 
 

 Kielbasi.....
 

Loaded baked potato salad from Sam's Club that I added more mayo, seasonings and crumbled bacon, also from Sam's Club, to....


 Deviled eggs....
 

 Chicken Bites from Sam's Club....
 

I also served, hot dogs, sausage patties, cheeseburgers, Mac N Cheese...
 
I will share pictures of our time together in my next post on Saturday.... 
 
 
 For July 4th, my son Joey and I had a quiet day enjoying watching some of ABC's 24 hour specials for America 250 and we created a new tradition for the 2nd year....
 
We ordered Burgers from Buffalo Wild Wings for our July 4th dinner....
 
  

 
  Today, I am going to be sharing how I did on my June Goals and what my Monthly Goals for July are.... 
  
Last year, I joined a group of Bloggers who were setting Quarterly and Monthly Goals......
 
 My Goals are more of a To Do List for each Season....
 

And I do so love my To Do Lists....
 
This year, I have decided to only do Monthly Goals..... 
 
 
    
So how did I do with my monthly Goals for June???
 
 
 
 
  Start to go through the Storage Room again, deciding what I will not be using and reorganize it......YES!!!  And I actually finished it.....
 
 

 
 Trim the bushes out in the front yard....YES!!!
 
 
  
 
 Go through ALL my clothes and decide what can be donated if I have not worn it within the last year...YES!!! 
 
  
 Pushed into JUNE from MAY......

  Have my son Jim come and put in the window air conditioners....YES!!
 
 Clean up and landscape the flower bed by our mailboxes that I created a few years ago...YES!!!
 
 
 
Pack away Christmas in the Sitting Room and re-decorate it in a garden theme....YES
  


  Pack away Christmas in the upstairs Hall and return it to normal.....YES!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pack away Christmas in the upstairs Bathroom and return it to normal.....YES!
  
 

  
Start to re-organize the Craft Room......YES!! I did start it but did not get too far because of the heat...
 

Go through and reorganize the Sitting Room Closet....YES!!  I started it and just need to finish going through what is on the 2 shelves which are Christmas crafts...
  
 
  
Go through and reorganize the Craft Room Closet....YES!!  I started to do so but had to stop when we have the 4 day heat wave of mid 90 degree temps.
 
  
 Pack away Christmas in the Craft Room......NOPE!!!  It got too hot to spend time in a room without air conditioning
   
  Put up the new shades in the bedroom that I ordered last Fall....NOPE!! 
 
 Start to straighten, reorganize and clean the storage shed that I rent to see if I can drop down to a smaller one .....NOPE!!  Again, it got too hot too fast....
 
 
Social Goals
 
 Plan and conduct my monthly Senior Social Club meeting as I am the President...YES!!
 
 
 
 
 
  
Help out with the Meet N Greet for our new priest the weekend of June 13th and 14th....YES!!
 
 
 
 
Pastoral Council Meeting with our new priest.....YES!!
 
 
Have my nieces over for pizza before my niece Caitlin starts working as a nurse in July...NOPE! They were on vacation and then we could not get our schedules coordinated, trying to set it up soon...
 
 
 So what are my Goals for July...
 
 
 
 Some I already accomplished....
 
 Moved forward into July.....
 
Invite my nieces over for pizza and conversation 
 
Pack away Christmas in the Craft Room 
 
  Finish changing the craft room over to normal decor
 
Finish going through, purging and reorganizing the Craft Room and the Craft Room closet

Finish going through and reorganizing the Sitting Room Closet 

 

 Decorate the Front Porch for July 4th.....YES!!
 
Undecorate the Front Porch after July 4th 
 
 Cut back Missouri Primrose in back yard....YES!!!
 
Cut back Missouri Primrose and lamb's ear in flower bed by Court's mailboxes
 
Cut back the hosta flowers in my next door neighbor's yard on the slope
 
 Spent some time, if not too darn hot, on the front porch in the afternoon, reading...

Spent some time in the evenings on the back patio, if not too hot, reading...

  Take down and pack away all of the Patriotic Summer Decor in the Living Room.....

 Deep clean and re-decorate the Living Room in my "Under the Sea" theme...

Pack up my Roos/Hen and Bee decor in the Kitchen

Redecorate the Kitchen in my Late Summer/Early Fall Apples and Sunflower theme... 

 Schedule car for an oil change

Schedule car for a wax and cleaning

 
These were from last July that I never got to do and just realized it when I looked back on last year's post!! 

Watch My Mom Jayne by Mariska Hargitay...

Watch Barbara Walters..Tell Me Everything
 
 
 Social Goals
 
Help out with Saint Maria Goretti's Feast Day celebration....YES!!
 
Host family America 250 celebration dinner....YES!
 
 Help with hosting an America 250 party for the Young at Heart Senior Social Club that I belong to
 
 
  
I am pushing both of these into August and maybe into September when it is cooler...
  
  Put up the new shades in the bedroom that I ordered last Fall....
 
 Start to straighten, reorganize and clean the storage shed that I rent to see if I can drop down to a smaller one .....
 

Hopefully, July will not be too hot and I can get a lot of this done....
 
As you can see, I have a lot to share in future posts..... 

  
So I hope you will stop by to visit again on SATURDAY!!!
 

 
 Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!! 
 
  And try to find JOY in every single day!
 

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE  give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment.  If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......


I am linking up to these parties:
 
 
 


  THURSDAY
 
 Please take some time to visit these terrific hosts and all those joining in on the fun!
 
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Monday, July 6, 2026

Not The Post I Planned....Downed Back Yard Tree,2026

 

 

  

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

 
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
 
Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....
 
 I feel it is a personal Journal that, hopefully, someday, my Twin Granddaughters will be able to look back on to learn about who I was.... 

I will be posting 3 times a week on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS....
 

As always, click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it....
 
 
 PINTEREST
 
If you would like to Pin my pictures, please click on them to enlarge them to do so....
 
 
 A NOTE ABOUT COMMENTS
 
I enjoy reading your comments and will return the favor by visiting and commenting on your blog or reply to you directly here if you do not have a blog but I do have my comment section set to Moderation due to spammers and hackers so your comment will not appear immediately...
And since I have a very busy life, like most of us do, it may take me awhile to return your comments but I promise I will....
 
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In my last post, I shared An update on my Cottage Garden Back Yard.....
 
  

 

 

 

  

 Click HERE if you missed that post!!


 And now for a few Personal Notes...
 
 
 For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts.... 
 
On THURSDAYS, I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...
 
  
  
I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any.... 
  

 
On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything... 
 
 
 
 Well even though it is MONDAY, I do not have a Haul to share as I really have curtailed my shopping this year as part of my Intention to shop my own home and use things I have in different ways and only buy things I truly need and can use....
 
 
Our heat wave, which here in NEPA is 3 consecutive days of 90 degrees, is over!!
 
Praise the Lord!! 
  

 However, it was brought to an end by severe thunderstorms that knocked power out for many here in my area, along with a lot of downed trees after Saturday night's storms , which also ended most of the fireworks displays in our area....
 
Thank goodness, I was not one of them who lost power or I would have had to go to an air conditioned hotel...
 
However, we had more storms on Sunday night into Monday and ended up with 5 inches of rain in the 2 days.....
  

  
When I looked out into my back yard this morning, this is what I saw.....
 
 
 
 Now you may remember that this is what the right back corner of my yard looked like in my last post.....
 
 
 
 I could not see my shed.....
 
 
 
 At first I thought the tree behind my next door neighbor's yard, that had sprouted up against the fence of the house behind his, was just water laden with all the rain we had....
 
 
 
 


You can see that it is laying down on my purple leaf plum tree..... 
 
 
And on my side fence....
 
 
I went upstairs and took these pictures from my upstairs sitting room......



 I could see that the tree was also hanging down in my next door neighbor's yard....
 
This is what the tree looks like in my next door neighbor's yard.... 
 
 
 
 As soon as the rain finally stopped, I got my trimmer and went out to cut a path that I could at least get to the shed.....
 
 
 
 I was then able to get my tree lopper out of the garden shed.....
 
I chopped away at the tree, cutting off whatever branches that I could reach so I could see if the tree cracked....
 
 This is the bottom of the trunk of the tree up against the fence of the house behind my next door neighbor's house....
 
 
 
 If you look at the top right of the picture, you can see the large branch is split and cracked...
 
 

 
 
That large branch fell on smaller ones....


And you can see that it cracked another branch......
 
 
 
 The only reason why these branches did not land on our back fences is that they are being held up by the arborvitaes that are planted behind our fences that were being killed by this tree.....
 
Here you can see the arborvitae to the left and the branches hanging into my next door neighbor's yard..... 


All the branches that I cut off the tree.....
 
 
 
 I cleaned this up as best as I could until it started to rain again....
 

 
 I filled 6 large garbage bags with tree branches and hauled them down to the dumpsters.....
 
It is a good thing that we have dumpsters in our development and do not have to pay for garbage..... 
 
 This is how it looks like now..... 

 
I contacted the home owner of the house next door and spoke with their tenants....


I then notified my HOA President who did contact the owner of the house, whose property the tree is on who lives in Florida and sent him pictures and told him that he needs to take care of this but I have not heard anything back....


 I have a feeling that this is going to be a long drawn out affair.....
 
 
 
 I am afraid that if the branch cracks more it will take out our fences but I am thankful that it is not near our houses....
  
 
 You can now see the arborvitae's behind my fence above the purple leaf plum tree........
 
 
 I also trimmed the branches away from my fence on the side....
 
 

How it now looks from the sitting room window.... 
 

At least it is better for now.... 


I have a feeling this is going to be a saga....


 I hope you will stop by to visit again on THURSDAY for my next post......
 

 Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!! 
 
  And try to find JOY in every single day!
 

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE  give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment.  If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......


I am linking up to these parties:
 
 


  THURSDAY
 
  
 Please take some time to visit these terrific hosts and all those joining in on the fun!
 
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