DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: June 2017

Welcome!!!!

Lately, I have been doing a lot of posts featuring our Cottage Garden Back Yard and our Patio!!

In celebration of the 4th of July, I thought I would feature our Patriotic Front Porch in this post!

But first, I want to Thank Karen, over at Oh My Heartsie Girl!, for featuring my post, New Lighting in the Back Yard and Patio, for m last week's Friday Feature Linky Party!!

Thanks so much , Karren!!

Please stop by and visit and link up to this great party!!

I did not show you much of the front porch decorated for Memorial Day because I had just planted my flowers and they looked a bit sparse but with all the rain we have been getting and now with the heat that we have had, the flowers are starting to fill in nicely!!!

I have the front porch all decked out to celebrate the 4th of July!!!

This year will be the first in probably 30 + years that I will be off Sat., Sun., Mon. and Tuesday for the Holiday!!

As a staff RN working in a hospital on night shift, I have to work either the eve or the day of every Holiday but this year, one of our flex nurses wanted to work July 3rd, which is actually considered the Holiday for those of us who work night shift, because of the time and a half pay......

I gladly let her work for me thus giving me 4 days off in a row for the Holiday!!!

I did not think I would see this, being off the whole Holiday, until I retired so I am going all out for this July 4th with decorating, cooking and hosting 2 cook outs for my family!!

This is what you see when you walk up the 13 steps from our Parking Lot in front of our row of townhouses.....

My neighbor's porch and ours are connected........

This urn sits between our 2 porches......

Using the simple addition of a few American flags can add a lot of Patriotic WOW to existing decor!!

Between the porches......

You can see that my flowers are filling in the pots nicely!!

A Patriotic wreath that I made......

The "Weeping Mortar" on the front of our house allows me to hang things off of it........

What is "Weeping Mortar"? In my opinion, it was the brick layer's using the lazy way of finishing off by not smoothing out the mortar between the bricks!!