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 "Under the Sea" Tree and the Beach underneath
it in the Living Room as part of my Coastal/Nautical decor...
Click HERE if you missed that post!!
Thanks to Denise, over at This is my Everybody,for choosing my blog post, More Garden Paint Projects, as one of her features from the Wonderful Wednesday Link Party!!
Thanks so much, Denise!!
I want to Thank Barb, over at French Ethereal, for featuring my blog post, Welcome to Pirate's Cove, as one of her features from last week's Share Your Style Link Party!!!
Thanks again, Barb!!
Please stop by and link up to these lovely parties.....
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...
Last Thursday, I forgot to share last week that on Friday night when my son Joey treats, we got hoagies from Jersey Mike's....
Joey got a giant cheese steak with extra meat.....
That was only one half of Joey's....
I got a regular Club Supreme with roast beef, turkey and swiss cheese
And a chicken salad one.....
I was only able to eat the halves of each and saved the other halves for the following days....
And that is all that is different in the way of food for me for this week...
Even though I had said in my previous post that I was going to finish up the Living Room tour decorated in a Coastal/Nautical theme today, I did not get a chance to take pictures and I already had this post started.....
So I will be sharing my Update on my July Monthly Goals instead of when I originally planned to on SATURDAY....
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....
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 July???
Moved forward from June.....
Invite my nieces over for pizza and conversation.....YES!!
Finish going through, purging and reorganizing the Craft Room....YES!!!
Sneak Peeks....will be doing posts on this room at the end of August....
And the Craft Room closet......YES!!!!
Pack
away Christmas in the Craft Room.....NOPE...I actually rearranged all
the Christmas things in the Craft Room after deciding to just leave it up as it is so late into the Summer..... That will be in my August Rudolph Day post over on my Christmas blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas...
Finish changing the craft room over to normal decor......NOPE!! As I left Christmas up....
Finish going through and reorganizing the Sitting Room Closet.......YES!!!!! Will be sharing soon when I share the Sitting Room decorated for Summer...
Decorate the Front Porch for July 4th.....YES!!
Undecorate the Front Porch after July 4th....YES!!
Give some of the outdoor Patriotic signs a fresh coat of red paint where it faded.... YES!!
Cut back Missouri Primrose in back yard....YES!!!
Take down and pack away all of the Patriotic Summer Decor in the Living Room.....YES!!!
Deep clean and re-decorate the Living Room in my "Under the Sea" theme...YES!!
Click HERE, HERE and HERE to see!! And there is still one more post on the Living Room to come on SATURDAY!!!
Pack up the Patriotic decor on the Dining Room buffet.....YES!!
Redecorate the Dining Room buffet.... YES!!
Will be sharing in a post soon...
Freshen up the paint on the garden statues.....YES!!!!
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...YES!!!
Watch Barbara Walters..Tell Me Everything.....YES!!!!
Both were so GOOD!!
A few things I did accomplish that I did not list for July Goals initially and added them later....
"Age" my faux brick wall in the Living Room.....YES!!!
Add pavers given to me by a friend to the wall around my Garden Shed in the back yard....YES!!!
Created a Gallery on my fridge using magnetic vinyl photo frames....YES!!!
Social Goals for July
Help out with Saint Maria Goretti's Feast Day celebration....YES!!
We had an ice cream truck come!!
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.....YES!!
Now to what I did not get to do in July.....
I have listed those goals for July under August Goals as I pushed some of them into August....
Both of these I am pushing into August and maybe even into September depending on how cool August is.....
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!!!
Also what I did not get to do in July......
Cut back Missouri Primrose and lamb's ear in flower bed by Court's mailboxes.....NOPE! Too Hot, humid or it was raining!
Cut back the hosta flowers in my next door neighbor's yard on the slope....NOPE! Too Hot, humid or it was raining!
Spent some time, if not too darn hot, on the front porch in the afternoon, reading...NOPE! Too Hot, humid or it was raining!
Spent some time in the evenings on the back patio, if not too hot, reading...NOPE! Too Hot or it was raining!
Schedule car for an oil change.......NOPE!!
Schedule car for a wax and cleaning......NOPE!!!
Also moved into August as the Craft Room took me 8 days to complete!!
August is usually a month with a lot of down time due to the heat and if it is very hot, I may have to add some new goals and push other ones into September like outdoor ones....Pack up my Roos/Hen and Bee decor in the Kitchen....NOPE!!!
Redecorate the Kitchen in my Late Summer/Early Fall Apples and Sunflower theme... NOPE!!
It is also a month when I need to give myself some Grace as there are a lot of dates that correspond with the birthdays and wedding anniversaries of lost loved ones along with the dates that my family lost those loved ones...
August is a very rough month for my family....
New Goals for August...
Bake zucchini and banana bread to freeze for the Winter.....
Go through all my CD's and decide what to keep and what to donate or sell as I found a place who will buy them....
Go through all my DVD's and decide what to keep and what to donate or sell.....
Make a wreath for my Craft Room using vintage sewing items....
Clean my 3 curios
Social Goals
Atten my church's Cash Bingo with my son Joey on the 8th....
Host my Senior Social Club's August meeting on the 12th
Attend a Lunch Out with friends from the Senior Social club at a local restaurant on the 23rd...
Our monthly Sunday breakfast at church is canceled for August because of vacations... Personal Goals
I totally forgot to mention this in my Update on My June Goals.....
On June 1st, I once again embarked on my Wellness Journey....
From June 1, 2022 to June 1, 2023 I was down 50 pounds...
Well,
in the last 2 1/2 years since my husband Joe became ill and passed away
from pancreatic cancer, I gained 18 of those pounds back....
Also in recent pictures, I noticed that I have also lost the muscle tone I had when I was walking and exercising every day....
SO........
I decided that I am going to try to lose 3-4 pounds a month but I am not going to pressure myself...
As my favorite You Tube personality Arlynn says " I have the rest of my life to lose the weight"...
I am also going to try to do some sort of exercises daily but I am not committing to specific routine yet...
I know I will feel better, both physically and mentally and have more energy....
I just want to be the healthiest version of me that I can be.....
I can now say that I have lost 6 pounds since June 1st!!!
Slow but steady is my goal even if it is only about 3 pounds a month, which will add up....
I feel that so far for 2026, I have accomplished a lot of big projects that I wanted to do so I am pretty happy with that!!!!
I hope you will stop by to visit again on SATURDAY for my next post....
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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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......
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