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 2 paint projects that I recently did!!
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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...
My son Joey saw this recipe on Face Book and asked me to make it....
I did not use the Crispy French Onions as Joey does not like them...
I used bread crumbs on top instead...
It was good....
Joey ate 2 bowlfuls....
When I make this again, I will add 2 cans of Cream of Mushroom Soup instead of one as I would like it a bit creamier and maybe a can or two of mushrooms....
We are being affected by the smoke from the Canadian Wild Fires here in NEPA....
It turned the sky yellow yesterday afternoon.....
In the evening, it was down right smokey and you could actually smell it in the air....
I could barely see the VA Hospital from my front porch.....
More smoke and poor air quality is predicted until the weekend....
One of the projects that I checked off my June To Do List was to go through the Storage Room again, deciding what I will not be using and reorganize it....
I initially did this when I first retired, when my husband Joe was still alive....
I did it again last year and since it has been over 2 years since Joe passed away and I have been living on my own, I know what I need to keep and what I would never use....
Before I start to share what I did, I want to mention that we had 4 cases of nails, screws, nut and bolts, etc....
You would think we were going to use them to build an entire house with all of this....
I went through everything, decided what I wanted to keep, which turned out to be this chest of drawers that we bought when we were first married....
And this case....
I like this case because I can remove the individual bins...
I probably kept much more than I will ever need but I can always go through all of this again in the future and pare down more of it....
So I was left with all of this in this case which I will be passing on...
And this empty case which I am hoping to be able to use in my craft room for organizing small things....
I also went through and reorganized my tool chest which I bought for myself about 10 years ago....
You see....I am a carpenter's daughter and I was the one who used most of the tools in our house....
I also have a small tool chest that I keep upstairs so I do not have to run up and down the stairs for something I need....
My storage room is half the size that it used to be as the other half of the original storage room became part of the Den when we turned the patio off the back of our townhouse into another room....
The door into the storage room.....
At my request, my late husband Joe bought bike hooks and mounted them on the door to hold this step ladder and step stools...
I passed on the step stools to neighbors and hung 2 brooms, a dust pan and a small sweeper making it much easier for me to get to them ....
They were kept on the back wall of the storage room before.....
Looking into the storage room....
My Dad put up all the shelves for me when we first moved in.....
We will start with the shelf above the door....
I keep all the paint cans used to paint the rooms in my house as I do not have any white walls.....
I went through all the paint, making sure it was still good....
I do plan on caulking some window and a crack in the concrete of my patio in the eraly Fall and yes, I was the one who did it before because Joe only made a mess of it...
My Dad taught me how to caulk....
Now we will move to the left side of the storage room.....
On the top shelf, is where I keep paint supplies, paint pans and drop cloths....
On the second shelf.......
More paint supplies and weather stripping that I just bought to use on the inside of some windows.........
Contact paper and spray paint and garbage bags.......
Joe always called me the queen of spray paint....
Third shelf......
Garbage bags and bungee chords and 2 small 3 drawer units....
Yes, I did go through all the drawers.....
Old vinyl tablecloths that I use for spray paint drop cloths, door hangers and extension cords.....
Battery operated pillar candles and candle lights and bulbs for the windows.....
Forth shelf and on the floor.....
String and rope to the left and different kinds of light bulbs....
Plate stands....
Shelf brackets and unfinished wood shelves that will be a future project....
On the floor where the air conditioner for the Living Room is kept in the Fall and Winter.....
Extra bottled water and creamers and a fire extinguisher.....
I now store my snow man that graces my front porch for Christmas and Winter here so I do not have to haul it down to the storage shed that I rent.....
Under the shelf is another air conditioner that I did not use in the Den this year....
Under the towels are 3 gates that I use when my grand pups are staying over.....
The back wall.....
On the top shelf are 2 tubs that I store outside back yard decor in....
Bottom shelf on back wall..... all my porch flags and mail box covers....
After deciding what to pass on, I have empty shelf space now....
There is a peg board on the back wall...
Lighting....
Saws that I kept...
Zip ties....
Draft dodgers not in use in the Summer, my trimmer and blower that I bought last year....
In the right corner is a roll of weed block fabric, a car snow broom and a box of longer pieces of wood and dowel rods....
The left side of the storage room....
On the top shelf is more paint and stains....
Next shelf......
Packing tape and dispenser....
Some car cleaning supplies, screw drivers and flash lights....
Miscellanous items on the turntable....
Different chargers and gloves for gardening, etc...
I can plug the battery charger right into this receptacle that I had my Dad install in this room....
Head lamps and spackling tools that were my Dad's.......
Next shelf....garden items....
The drawer cabinet....
Extra coffee creamers here as I have no room in the Pantry Closet....
Under the shelves is this shelving unit......
I placed this case filled with all the nails and screw on top for easy access...
On the other shelves.....
Wrenches, clamps, piers, screening tool and level and mallet...
On another shelf....
2 miter boxes which now thinking about it, I do not really need two of them...
Extra Peel and Stick flooring and tiles, A tool I bought but never used but hope to learn how to use,Ground Clear for the yard and my tool chest....
Next to the shelf unit.....
2 drawer units....
The drawer units are sitting on a wood bed table that my maternal Grandfather made for my Mother as a I child, that I also used as a child....
Under the bed table.....
And I did go through all those drawers and decided what I was keeping for now....
In the corner......
Extra batteries and gloves....
A work light, extra pieces of wood......
A folding step stool, a rug I use when it is snowing to put on my tile foyer, a wood plaque and a battery operated Duck Vacuum....
I was able to pass on quite a few things to neighbors and that also made me happy...
I do have some tools down my storage shed, that I rent, after going through the storage room last year...
After I offer everything to neighbor's and family, I am thinking of donating what is left to Habitat for Humanity to sell in the local Restore...
I hope you will stop by to visit again on SATURDAY 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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