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 Falloween Home Tour for 2026!!
Click HERE if you missed that post!!
Thanks so much to Barb, over at French Ethereal, for choosing my blog post, Kitchen Falloween Hutch and Tree, as one of her features from last week's Share Your Style Link Party!!
Thanks so much, Barb!!
Thanks to Andrea, over at The Cottage Market, for choosing my blog post, Halloween Beverage Bar, Tablescape and Family Dinner, as one of her features from last week's A Morning Cup of Joe Link Party!!
Thanks again, Andrea!!
Please stop by and link up to these delightful parties!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
I hope you get to spend it with those you love!!
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 SATURDAY , What Have I been up to and what events have I attended???
My Tuesday afternoon date with my grand pups....
Faye on my lap and Azumi embedded in to my side....
Azumi sleeping on her back....
With her head hanging down between the ottoman and the sofa...
When Jim and Danielle came to pick up the pups....
Gigi and Danielle....
Lily giving Mimi High Five's....
For the 2nd year, we attended a huge Halloween bash at the Wyoming Valley Mall as a family....
Here come the Trick or Treaters....
My son Jim, Spider Man and Lily, Wonder Girl!!
And Danielle, Dead pool with Gigi, Super Girl!!
Gigi was tired and not in the mood....
You know, those Terrible Two's!
Uncle Joey.....
One of my friends on FB said he was acting as Mall security!!
LOL!
Most of the stores in the Mall were giving out candy and treats.....
Everyone got in a line that wrapped through the entire mall...
Poor Gigi fell asleep and slept through it all!!
Where last year, it was Lily that slept the whole time!!
Lily got into picking out her candy this year...
The Mall had a Pumpkin Contest and gave out over 1500 bags of candy that a group of Senior Mall Walkers helped make up!!
Pictures taken from the Wyoming Valley Mall FB page...
Some of the costumes.....
Sharing more pictures from the mall's FB page...
Local Artists did some art work.....
There was quite a turnout!!
This is Dino's where we frequently get pizza and stromboli's from....
J.C. Penney's, where I have gotten our family hair cuts from for close to 30 years!
We were even on the mall's FB page!!
It was a fun evening and I admit, I was tired after walking through the entire mall...
And to think that in my 30's, I used to walk through the inside of the mall 5 times in the mornings after working all night!!
Our Mall is suffering from what most mall's in America are going through BUT there is new hope for our beloved mall...
There is also plans for a free standing Tractor Supply , a drive thru Iced Tea and Beverage Place and a Convenient Market, also with gas pumps on the other side of the mall...
The Wyoming Valley Mall opened when I was in 9th grade and was used to house trailers for many to live in after the Agnes Flood of 1972 destroyed most of Wyoming Valley...
Since we lived 5 minutes away from it when I got married, we spent a lot of time there...
It had 2 movie theaters, where we took the boys to at least once a month when they were young along with numerous restaurants...
When my boys got older, they walked down to go to the movies, the Arcade and hang out at Dino's with friends...
It was sad to see it decline but now we are hopeful that it will make a come back!!
The current owner is really trying to bring it back and the mall will be hosting a craft fair on November 14th and an Antique show on November 21st...
My next door neighbors on both sides of me are Muslim and even though they do not celebrate Halloween, I made up "Happy Fall" bags for the 3 kids on one side of me and for Usef and Anaya on the other side of me...
Usef and Anaya were very happy with them....
Usef, giving me a hug...
We will be lucky if we get one or two Trick or Treaters as it is not like it used to be when my sons were young...
Jim and Danielle will be bringing the twins up because the apartment complex where they live is not having their Trunk n Treat this year like they did in years past....
"This is a sacred, temporary home tribute built to welcome and honor the spirits of deceased loved ones on November 1st (All Saints' Day / Día de los Angelitos for children) and November 2nd (All Souls' Day / for adults)..Joey added Joe's Prayer card to the altar along with his fellow employees loved ones who have passed...."
My son Joey placed my late husband Joe's prayer card on the altar....
BEAUTIFUL tradition not very common here in NEPA!!
And I want to share some of the beautiful Fall Foliage right by where I live.....
That is the back of Lowes in the shopping center on the side of our development, which you can see on the left....
I took these pictures from the apartment complex, where both my sons live, that I have to drive through to get to my development....
This is the shopping center where half the stores were destroyed in 2018 by a tornado....
Barnes and Nobles was ripped apart and you were able to look right through it...
Another shopping center with Target, Marshall's and Ross is next to this one...
Outback Steakhouse is in the right of the picture...
That is the ponding basin for the shopping center....
Interstate 81 is directly behind me....
Some of the trees in the apartment complex....
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This is what the woods on the side of my development look like on my drive home...
Leaving the apartment complex and entering my development....
This is the only row of townhouses in my development that faces this way
Driving up my hill, looking at the woods .....
The woods on the side of my Court....
The burning bush in my neighbor's yard...
The tree in the yard across from me is losing it's leaves like many will now start to do....
The leaf color on that tree is the same as my car!!
And these are a few pictures taken from my bedroom window as my air conditioners are finally out....
Again the tree across from me with the VA Hospital up at the top of my hill....
My son Joey lives in the row of apartments at the top of the hill, facing the VA Hospital....
Where the large spruce tree is in the picture above is where my son Jim and his family lives...
Soon the trees will be bare....
They sure do put on quite a show, don't they???
I will be hosting my nieces on Sunday for a pizza party to close out The Fall/ Halloween Season...
This has always been my favorite time of the year even when I was a kid....
We are still predicted to have above average temps in to next week.....
Our normal high here in NEPA is about 56 degrees by now and if we see rain next Thursday, that will be 18 days without rain which is very rare...
I will be taking advantage of those nice days on Tuesday and Wednesday to change the front of my house over from Halloween to Christmas before it gets colder and we get snow, which we usually do in November....
I am almost done with decorating the Den for Christmas....
I hope you will stop by to visit again on MONDAY when I will give an update on how I did with my Monthly Goals for October.....
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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