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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Sunday, August 21, 2022

What's in Your Hutch/Curio? Part 4 in the Series






 

 Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

 
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
 
Just a reminder, I will be posting on Wednesdays and Sundays every week so be sure to check back on those days to see a new post...... 
 
 As always, click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it....
 
 
 Today, I am continuing a Mini Series called What's in Your Hutch/Curio???
 
I will be sharing the Curio in the Living Room....
 
 
In my last post, I shared how I decorated the Tree that stays up in my Craft Room year round for the Summer, along with a few ornaments I made for it and a garden update......








Click HERE if you missed that post....


 I want to Thank, Barb, over at the French Ethereal for choosing my post, A Day in the Park, as one of her features from last week's Share Your Style Linky Party!!!

 
Thanks so much, Barb!!
 
I also want to Thank Andrea, over at The Cottage Market, for choosing my post, A Day in the Park, 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 charming parties!!

 
 
And now for a few Personal Notes...
 
 
 Food of the Week
 

On Friday night, which means NO Cooking as Joey treats us every Friday, it was Mission BBQ 

 Joe got a Pulled Pork sandwich....

 

Joey got a Pulled Chicken Sandwich with Fries....

 

 I got the Pulled Chicken entree' which comes with corn bread...

 

 A vat of Mac and Cheese was shared by Joey and I and what we did not eat went in the fridge... 

 

 Sauces a plenty too!!

 ALL SO GOOD!!

 
 August 12th was our 44th Wedding Anniversary....





And I say every year.....

It is a miracle that we have not gotten divorced or killed each other yet!!!

It is also 44 years since we moved into our townhouse as we bought it 6 months before we were married.....

Our first night spent in this house was our Wedding Night!!!

I thought I would give you a look of how it looked 44 years ago in 1978!!!

The front of our house..... 

The original rail road tie and rock retaining wall in front of my row of townhouses.....

 At Christmas time, a few years later.......

 


 

Easter in the late 80's when we still had a bit of a front yard....

No trees....looking down the road toward the Apartment complex where my sons now live.....

 
 Our Living Room in 1978.....

That sofa which as made by Flexsteel lasted almost 17 years....

 

Dining Room 1978

Those were the original chairs that went with Joe's Grandmother's Dining Room furniture....




Kitchen

1978

 
The appliances came with the house......

 
Before I had the counter bar built......


 
 
 
Powder Room 1978



Our Bedroom 1978

Shag carpeting that came with the house that we replaced throughout 2 years later....




Guest Room, later Joey's Bedroom, now Craft Room



 

Sitting Room, Jim's Bedroom, and now Sitting Room again


Enclosed Patio 1978




 
Back Yard 1978
 

 
My Dad mixing concrete for a patio block

  WOW!!
 
It has come a long away, BABY!!
 
LOL! 

We don't really celebrate our Anniversary anymore....
 
 
 
 Joe's 68th Birthday was on Wednesday, the 17th.....
 
And like I tell him every year.....
 
 "You will always be older than me!"
 
LOL!

He worked at the Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins Toyoto Sportsplex that night....

 
Some of the employees that help out with the Diamond City Figure Skating Club bought several packs of cupcakes and had the entire Club sing Happy Birthday to him!!!
 


Joe is a Big Ham and loved it....
 
Me...
 
I would have been mortified and died a thousand deaths!!!!!  

 
 He also had the pleasure of working with both our Great Nieces that evening!!!
 


Caitlin worked with him in the concession stand....

 


 And Cort is being trained on the Zamboni!!!
 
 


Cort also works at our Arena as part of the Ice Crew during the WB Scranton Penguins games....
 
So Joe had a great Birthday!!
 
We are celebrating it with our usual Pizza Party in the privacy of our own home with our kids and the Grand Pups today ( Sunday)....
 
 
And yes, I made Joe go and get a haircut for his Birthday!! 

He is hanging on to his luscious locks, as my son Joey calls them, for dear life!!

LOL!

It is weird to think that now Joe is 1 year older than my Dad was when he passed away at 67 years old!!!
 
 
 
 Joe always wins on a lottery ticket around his Birthday!
 
In 2019, he won $500 actually on his Birthday!
 
 On Friday, August 19th , he won $1000 on a $3 Scratch Off he never played before and it was Number 000, the first one out of the book!!
 

 
 
 His Birthday was the 17th!


 So he goes back to cash in the ticket and treats himself to a few more tickets....

And GUESS WHAT????

He wins again!!!!
 
 
The Win All symbol meant he won another $500!!!!


The funny thing is that when he does won, he does usually win $1000 and within a week, he wins an additional $500!!

Why it always happens this way is beyond us...
 
 One year, he did win $1000 one day and then $500 the next but never on the same day!!!

Now you do know he is only getting his money back but at least he is getting is money back....
 
 I wonder if his luck will change when they close Valley Mart in September and tear it down to build the new Sheetz!

As always, we share the wealth...
 
All 3 of our kids always get something along with our Church and the rest will go toward taxes and our Emergency Fund and Christmas fund....
 
 
Wanted to share this hanging basket in the Patio..... 


I planted only 2 wave petunias in this pot....

 


The impatiens underneath it are also doing well!!

 
And there are only 2 coleus planted in this pot by the shed in the back yard....


 
 
 These sunset pictures were taken from our front porch, taken over 15 minutes....
 












 By September, the Sun will not make it around to the front of our house and my sunset views from the front porch will cease until the Spring....
 
 
On Saturday, my dear friend Anne Marie came to visit!! 

We have had to postpone this visit a few times....

One because we all came down with Co Vid and the second time was because I was Pup Sitting....

It was so good to see her and catch up a bit!!

I will be posting more about our visit and the wonderful gifts she brought me and where I put them in my next post on Wednesday....



Does she know what I like or what?????

 Previously, in the first installment of this Series, "What's in Your Hutch/Curio?"......

I shared what is inside the Dining Room Hutch.....

 

 

 

 

 

  Showcasing my Moss Rose Collection.....

Click HERE if you missed that post.....

 

Next, I shared how I cleaned and styled the larger Curio in the Dining Room.....

 


 

 

 


 
 Click HERE to see this post if you missed it....
 
 
In the 3rd Installment, I shared the smaller Curio in the Dining Room....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Click HERE if you missed that post....


About 2 weeks ago, I gave the Curio in my Living Room a good cleaning.....


I took everything out of it, washed it all up with my cleaning mixture of ammonia and water, cleaned the inside of the Curio and the glass and mirrors, polished the outside and then put everything back in, rearranging a few things on the different shelves.......

 
I bought this Curio about 30 years ago....


I display some of my Angel Collection and my vintage Hofbauer Brydes Crystal Collection inside of it...

The top half of the Curio.....


Top shelf in the top half....


A set of Angels which originally sold for only $12 in Sam's Club


Brydes Crystal large vase, bell and sugar and creamer set  which gifted to me for my Wedding Shower and that started the whole Collection.....



In front, is a single stem peach Capodimonte Rose bought when we vacationed at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Va.

 

 

Middle Shelf.....


Another set of Angels from Sam's Club....


 A Brydes crystal flower basket....


 2 small pieces of Byrdes crystal and a crystal collie dog with pups honoring our sweet Savanna...




Bottom shelf in the top half of the Curio....


Another set of Angels from Sam's Club


2 vintage Fostoria Navarre Clear Ice Tea glasses


 A Byrdes Crystal large bell

 
And a small crystal Bell that was gifted to us by my Mother on our 15th wedding Anniversary which is engraved on the Bell....


There are 2 shelves in the bottom half of the Curio.....


I split up yet another set of Angels between the 2 shelves....

Crystal bell with an engraved flower on it , and 2 covered Byrdes candy dishes and 2 more Fostoria glasses....





Bottom shelf.....


2 more fostoria glasses and a Byrdes crystal candy dish.....



 The only time I change this curio up a bit is at Christmas when I add some florals, greenery and ornaments to it....
 


 
I was also going to share what is inside my Hutch in the Living Room today but I will save that for another post.....

 I hope you will stop by to visit again on Wednesday when I will be continuing this Series and will be sharing the Curio in the upstairs Sitting Room...
 
 
 
 

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!!

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......


I am linking up to these parties:
 
 
 

 Please take some time to visit these terrific hosts and all those joining in on the fun!
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 21, 2022 at 12:52 PM

    Your grandnieces are beautiful.

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  2. Miss MerryAugust 21, 2022 at 12:54 PM

    Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to Joe. I love your wedding pictures, thank you for sharing! Everyone looks so young and the photo with your parents is just precious. We celebrate 46 this September and we say the motto of our marriage has been one step forward, two steps back :) - whenever we thought we were getting ahead, pow, something would happen. And we say the reason we stayed married is that we had five kids in seven years and neither one of us wanted to raise that mob on our own, lol. At this point, I think I will keep him.

    I love the photos of your townhouse, too. It was decorated for the era! Both our moms had the harvest gold stove and frig so we went wild and bought avocado. Unfortunately we bought them one at a time and none of the shades were the same. Drove me nuts. Did I learn, no. We started replacing them with cream. Finally I went white and recently we have moved to black. I am not into the stainless. So neat how your yard has changed so much, too.

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  3. LindaAugust 21, 2022 at 2:09 PM

    Wow, what a transformation of your townhouse. Happy Anniversary. We celebrated 53 years this past July.

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  4. CiNdEe's GaRdEnAugust 21, 2022 at 11:14 PM

    Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to Joe! I have been married 40 years and we have lived in our home for 32 years. We previously had a house we lived in for several years before moving. We are a rare bunch. I don't know many people who have lived in the same place that long! (-: Or stay married that long. My grandparents were married for 62 years. I always admired them. I remember thinking how old they were. LOL Now I think that isn't that old! (-:

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  5. AnonymousAugust 21, 2022 at 11:15 PM

    Love seeing your wedding pictures!
    Happy Anniversary to you both. My husband and I don’t do anything more than say,
    “ oh, happy anniversary “, so I understand about not celebrating.
    And happy birthday Joe.☺️
    Would love to know your lottery winning trick.
    Looking forward to Wednesday and what you have been up to.
    Blessings to you 💜
    Minnie

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    1. Debbie-Dabble Blog and A Debbie-Dabble ChristmasAugust 22, 2022 at 10:00 PM

      Minnie,
      Thanks so much for he anniversary wishes and for Joe's birthday wishes...We celebrated his birthday on Sunday with the kids and enjoyed the day!! I have no idea how he wins so much on the lottery but like I tell everyone, he is just getting his money back!!! Thanks for taking the time to visit!! I truly appreciate it!!
      Hugs,
      Deb

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  6. AnonymousAugust 22, 2022 at 7:19 PM

    It’s always a joy to visit you! I love love the old photos, you’ve done a marvelous job on your home. Your nieces are so pretty and how fun to see Joe celebrate his day. Happy anniversary! Your wedding photos are just so dear. We’ve been married for 47 years and have been in the same California ranch for 40. Your collections are a treat to see, those Fostoria glasses are gorgeous and everything so sparkly and beautiful….as usual. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy day. V.

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  7. Debbie-Dabble Blog and A Debbie-Dabble ChristmasAugust 22, 2022 at 10:25 PM

    V.
    Thanks so much for stopping by!! And thanks for the Anniversary wishes...Glad that you enjoyed the post!! Stay safe, healthy and happy!!
    Hugs,
    Deb

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  8. JeanieAugust 23, 2022 at 8:34 AM

    Some lovely things in your cabinet but the real treasures here are your beautiful wedding photos. How lovely you looked and what a pretty gown! Happy Anniversary!

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  9. Judy at GoldCountryCottageAugust 23, 2022 at 6:38 PM

    Hi Deb: Happy Belated Anniversary. I love seeing all the pictures of the past. Looking back on them doesn't it make you realize how time passes so quickly? Joe and the girls look happy to be supporting their team and everything looks as pretty as ever..Happy Tuesday..xxoJudy

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  10. Carol BentonAugust 26, 2022 at 9:16 AM

    I like how the lights in your curio hutch reflect off the cut glass and the beautiful colors and shapes of all the objects. Happy anniversary!
    Thank you for participating in Talent-Sharing Tuesdays Link-Up 30.
    Carol
    www.scribblingboomer.com

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  11. Joanne August 28, 2022 at 1:49 PM

    I loved this sweet look back at what the townhouse used to look like! Your wedding photos are fabulous too. I once won $100 on a scratch ticket I was given at Christmas but that's it. It sounds like Joe has really good luck near his birthday!

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