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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" 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......

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Thursday, July 25, 2024

Mid Summer Front Yard Update & More, 2024

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.....

Joe would want me to continue doing what I love to do so with that being said.....

I am going to start posting again on a regular schedule.....

I will be posting on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS....

And when I can, I will add a Saturday Snippets post on SATURDAYS...

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In my last post, I shared 2 Bars in the Kitchen decorated for Early Summer in a Hens & Roos and Bee theme....

My Beverage Bar.....

And my Counter Bar.....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank Barb, over at French Ethereal, for choosing my post, Gifts from Hospice and July 4th Celebration, as one of her features from the last Share Your Style Link Party!!!

Thanks so much, Barb!!

Please stop by and link up to this lovely party!!!

Today, I am going to do an Update on how my annuals are doing.....

Even though we have now survived 3, yes 3, Heat Waves this Summer, my flower pots are flourishing...

Probably because I am breaking my neck to keep them watered and prevent them from baking in this God Awful Heat and Humidity that has been so prevalent this Summer...

With dew points frequently in the 70's, which is considered "Tropical" and Humidity in the 90 percent range, I have been stuck in the house for most of this Summer,,,,

With the shades drawn down to prevent the hot Sun from heating up the house even more than it already is.....

With the air conditioning set on "Morgue" level....

And my neck fan around my neck pretty much all the time!!!!

I want to know when did NEPA become "Tropical"?????

YES!!!

I am SO looking forward to Fall and cooler weather......

I did get the opportunity on Sunday to sit out on my front porch for a bit , looking through a new magazine.....

It was a day with low humidity and clouds so my "Chankles" are not too swollen....

We do get a day or two in between days of excessive humidity when it does drop down to the "comfortable " level.....

Also on 2 of those days, I was able to do some work in the front and back yards....

We will start with the front of the house....

This pot of marigolds is on the front porch and reseeded itself....

A new marigold was growing in the crack of the sidewalk so I transplanted it into the first flower box here in front of the porch railing as I lost one of the marigolds because I thought it would rain one day and it did not and it dried up before I could water it.....

Also on the front porch are these 2 small pots of impatiens.....

They are surviving the frequent attempts of the chipmunks to bury their treasures in these pots....

One the side of the porch.....

The 4 coleus plants in this long flower box are doing great!!!

The flower bed under the Living Room window....

The marigolds are doing well and hopefully, they will make the transition into Fall so I will not have to buy Mums!!

My stacked pots on the side on the retaining wall are doing fantastic!!!!

I have been cutting pieces of coleus off the front one and transplanting them out in pots in the back yard.....

The impatiens in this round pot on a stand in the center are really thriving...

The coleus in the stacked pot in the back does not get as much Sun so it is not as big at the one in the pot in the front.....

The front flower bed along the sidewalk.....

At the one end.....

The begonias are going strong in this black urn....

And so are the white impatiens in this red vintage watering can....

On the park bench.....

You can see how well these 3 pots are doing!!

I decided to change things out under the bench......

This is how it looked for actually several years now.....

It was a tribute to my Fur Babies that passed away with the stone saying " My Beloved Pet"

I moved these items out to the back yard ....

And I brought a Pittsburgh Penguins garden rock and paver that my son Joey gifted his Dad...

Along with a Pittsburgh Steeler's Gnome and a Pittsburgh Penguin's Gnome that Joe had bought in Five Below several years ago.....

Joe had them displayed in his Pittsburgh Sports corner in our bedroom....

I will keep these outside until the snow flies then I will bring them back in....

I positioned these 2 spot light Sunflowers from Dollar Tree so they light up this area in the evening.....

I think Joe would like this Homage to his Love of all Pittsburgh Sports.........

Speaking of that, my oldest son Joey has booked a trip to Pittsburgh for a few days to see a Pittsburgh Pens Hockey game in memory of his Dad.....

It became an annual tradition for Joe and Joey to spend some Father and Son time traveling to Pittsburgh to see a game and take in some of the attractions when Joe retired.....

I think it is something that Joey needs to do as part of his own personal grieving process.....

I also did a bit trimming of the forsythia because in this heat, everything is growing so fast!

These begonias are thriving too!!

I also did a bit of trimming in the yard next to me as I was the one who planted every thing there for the home owner Trish, who rents the house out.....

Now "when there is a will, there is always a way..."

I needed to cut down the flowers that loomed on my next door neighbor's hostas on the slope along with a few things including weeds on my own slope....

Joe used to climb the slope to do so...

And I can do that BUT because of the copperhead snake sightings we had along the retaining wall and slope, I will not do that until the Fall when it gets below 50 degrees and any snakes will go dormant....

So what did I do???

I used my Tree Lopper!!

I worked from the parking lot and from the top of the slope and managed to cut everything back that I had too!!!

I hope to be able to cut back the hostas in the Fall myself but if not, I will ask a former neighbor who own the landscape business that takes care of the grounds of the apartment complex next to me in which both my sons live in.....

Trish, who owns the house next to me, and I plan on hiring him next Spring to put down the mulch on our slope and front flower beds...

I also cut back the flowers on the lamb's ear and hostas in the flower bed by our mail box that I created.....

It was hotter than I thought so I will cut back the primrose here another time when it is cooler....

There are some asters mixed in with the primrose....

I am happy that the Rose of Sharon Tree, that was a sprout from my neighbor Ed's ones in his yard, has taken and is blooming nicely....

It is a descendant of the those that my Dad had in our back yard when I was a child.....

And the loosestrife that I also transplanted from Ed's yard is doing well this year.....

Hopefully, soon, I can cut down the primrose and freshen this flower bed up a bit more....

I hope you enjoyed seeing my Mid Summer up date of my front Yard and more.....

On SATURDAY, for Saturday Snippets, I will be sharing how my back yard cottage garden looks now in Mid Summer.....

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

Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

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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