DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG

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!!!!

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George Eliot

George Eliot was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans......

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Monday, April 6, 2026

Easter at Nelson Crest & an Easter Tablescape, 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....

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In my last post, I shared My Annual Easter/Spring Home Tour, which included the front of my house lit up from Dusk til Dawn.....

Easter table vignettes in the Living Room....

And the downstairs Hall.....

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, it is Easter Monday and I hope you all had a wonderful Easter spent with those you love!!

I had a great Easter spent with my family and I will be sharing our Easter Celebration through out the week....

For over 2 years now, I have struggled with how I can mulch my back yard without asking anyone to help me...

Like my Mother was when my Dad passed away, I am fiercely independent and do not like to rely on other's for help including my 2 sons...

They both have enough on their plates...

The problem with the mulch is loading it into my car , which yes, the store will gladly do but then I am faced with this once I get home.....

13 steps from the parking lot to the sidewalk in front of my house!

And I know, I have 2 sons...

One who is a computer nerd ( self professed) who suffers from nerve damage in his shoulder causing pain and discomfort down his arm and in his elbow that effects his job as an IT Specialist and the other one who works at Target and lifts heavy boxes of merchandise and unloads trucks for a living...

I refuse to put them in a position that, God forbid, they might get hurt and then it would effect their jobs...

This happened with my husband Joe after putting a huge air conditioner in a neighbor's window...

He hurt his back, which affected his job as he had pain carrying the mail satchel and delivering package for the US Postal Service...

When he went to the Dr., we learned he had sustained 2 compression fractures in his back...

Because of this, I started looking where I could have mulch delivered...

Home Depot charges a flat $39 fee for any deliveries no matter how little or large the order is...

Even though Lowes currently has their bark mulch on sale for 5 bags for $10, they charge a flat $69 delivery fee even though I live right behind them!

I do have the premium Sam's Club Membership where I get free delivery and shipping for orders over $50...

But they do not carry bark mulch and only have rubber mulch...

Well, I have neighbors and family that use rubber mulch and even though it is more expensive, they get several years out of it and only have to replenish it a bit rather then replacing it yearly like one has to do with the bark mulch...

So I decided that I would invest in rubber mulch for the back yard and with the free delivery from Sam's Club, it would pretty much cost the same as with delivery fees from other places...

I had to order something I wanted for Easter dinner so I decided to only order 6 bags to see how it would go....

Well, the nice young thin man who delivered the order carried 3 bags of mulch ( 35 pounds each) at a time up my steps like it was nothing!!!

He put them nicely on the front porch so now I had to figure out how to get them through the house and out to the back....

Joe had made this dolly for me to use to move tubs around in my craft room....

Since I lifted 200 -300 lb. patients for a living as a Nurse working in direct patient care, I was able to lift the bags to get them into the house and on the dolly, which I easily rolled right out to the back yard.....

Even 2 at a time!

This mulch is supposed to provide double the coverage of the bark mulch and is often used in playgrounds....

My back yard will have a slightly different look as I always used red mulch out there but it was not available in individual bags at my Sam's Club....

So I ordered the brown...

I have to order something for my Senior Social Club meeting this week so I will order another 6 bags which should do it for the back yard....

Along with a container of Preen to prevent weeds....

I will keep you posted on how it all goes in the back yard....

I did buy a new Easter tablecloth and a pretty kitchen towel with carrots on it, both ordered from Boscov's....

To show you the tablecloth, I will be sharing my simple Easter Tablescape.....

Very simple because as my son Joey always says, "you have to have room for the food"....

I simply just removed the candlesticks and the tree.....

I used Easter dinner plates that my late friend Anne Marie gifted to me....

And egg shaped Bunny plates that I bought in Tuesday Mornings before the store closed here....

I used gold flatware that my late husband Joe bought for me and crystal glassware, gifted to me by my neighbor Mehrukh.....

I used these plates for the my twin granddaughters....

I used an Easter Bunny place mat in the center of the table....

And as always, I burned the special candle that I received from an All Soul's Day Mass for parishioners of my church when Joe passed away.....

By doing this, we feel he is still there with us....

More on our Easter Dinner in upcoming posts.....

And this is the dish towel......

It is so hard to find Easter towels in these colors....

Today, I will be sharing my other House, Nelson Crest, my Victorian doll house...

I honestly did not change too many things up from other years so I am going to let the pictures do the talking....

"The Easter season in the Catholic Church lasts for 50 days, beginning on Easter Sunday and concluding on Pentecost Sunday."

"This period, often called Eastertide, is celebrated as a single, extended feast of the Resurrection, focusing on joy and the presence of the risen Christ before his Ascension."

Because of this, I will be keeping all my Easter/Spring decorations up until the last week of April....

I hoped you enjoyed seeing how I decorated both of my houses for Easter this year....

And I hope you will come back again to visit 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!!

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