DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: Winter Yard Clean Up & Care Bears, Saturday Snippets

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!!!!

I DABBLE IN A BIT OF THIS AND THAT!!!!

" 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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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Winter Yard Clean Up & Care Bears, Saturday Snippets

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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Welcome to Saturday Snippets!!!

In my last post, I shared the Fall Foliage in NEPA, an amazing Sunset and a few sweet Pumpkins.....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

I want to Thank to Marsha, over at Marsha in the Middle, for choosing my post, Falloween Home Tour, as one of her features from last week's Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot Link Party!!

Thanks so much, Marsha!!!

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

And now for a few Personal Notes...

Joe always did the dishes because he made the mistake of telling me when we first got married that I did not do them right so they INSTANTLY became his to do!!

LOL!!

He was very OCD about how he did them too....

I went to clean the Kitchen sink the other day and picked up the drain mat and this is what I saw!!

Sure looks like a Heart to me!!

This is an E Granite sink that Joe picked out when we remodeled the Kitchen 13 + years ago as I did not want a stainless steel one, which is too cold and industrial looking for me.....

Usually bleach removes any stains from it and is really all I could use on this type of sink...

I soaked it in water and bleach then I used Comet with bleach and I can not get this "heart" stain out...

Hmmmm....

A message from Heaven?????

I am leaving it there....

We had a stretch of warm weather last week.....

Actually record breaking heat!!!

I cut back the hostas on the slope next to me using my lopper and what I could not get with the lopper, I did actually climb the slope to cut them back....

Never thought that at almost 67 years old, I would be able to do that again ...

I did sweep up a baby snake so thank goodness, I did not encounter it while on the slope because I would have rolled off the slope onto the parking lot....

I did as best as I could...

May do more when it gets colder but it is good for now...

We will be having a landscaper put mulch on slope in front of both my house and my next door neighbors and the front flower beds in the Spring......

My hands were screaming though along with my back after using the clippers and lopper....

Filled 3 garbage bags that I also hauled out and threw in the dumpsters....

Day 2 of Yard Work.....

I spent 3 HOURS....

Yes, 3 HOURS, raking and sweeping up at least 2inches in depth of leaves in my back yard and Patio!!!!

I already did this about a week ago and filled 2 big bags and now I had another 2 bags full of leaves!!!

I took the shovels, car brooms and ice choppers out of the shed....

Looks better.....

The leaves are almost done falling behind me.......

The funny thing is that the 2 trees that are mine, still have their leaves on them!!!

I will be sweeping up the rest of the leaves that fall over the next week or so.....

Day 3 of Yard Work even though it sure was hot out there...in the high 70's...

I pulled up the patio rugs......

Cleaned them off, rolled them up and packed them in the car...

Took all the pillows and cushions off all the chairs in front and back and packed them up also.....

Moved most of the pots under the chairs that I stacked and banked up against the back of the house under the awning....

I moved the resin wicker chairs from the front porch to the back patio and moved one of the solid resin chairs from the back to the front.

I used a chair for Christmas decorating on the front porch last year and the one from the back will hold up better in the elements if I decide to do so again this year...

I also pulled up the black and white rug, cleaned it up, rolled it up and packed that in the car to take down to my storage shed with the rest of the Summer things....

Still have a bit more things to do until I tarp everything that is against the back of the house like move the tables from the front porch out to the back...

Joe used to take the tables and chairs from the front porch down our storage shed for the Winter....

I am not doing that....

The less I have to haul back and forth from the storage shed , the better....

I also will be able to store some of the back yard Patio things in my storage room at the house since I cleaned out some of the Joe's things in there that I will not be needing....

I hope that by next year, I may be able to go down to a smaller storage shed....

There is a lot that I need to throw out from the shed and then re-organize it to my liking.....

And then I will see how much room I actually have in it...

On Halloween, the apartment complex that both my sons live in, which is right next to my townhouse development, hosted a Trunk and Treat for their residents....

They also hosted games and crafts for the children a bit earlier......

My son Jim , was able to leave work a bit earlier as he usually works to 7pm, so they could take my Twin Granddaughters to the Trunk and Treat!!!

They invited my son Joey and I to join them........

At first, we were not sure what the twins were dressed in for Halloween.....

Until they put their hats on them!!!!!!

Gigi was Sweet Dreams Care Bear

And Lily was Funshine Care Bear....

Maybe they should have reversed the costumes because it took a bit before Gigi woke up!!

There she is!!

Linda, the apartment complex manager, with the Twins...

It was a beautiful evening with temps. in the 70's!!

And Mimi and Uncle Joey were happy to have been able to share Lily and Gigi's first Halloween with them!!!

Well, tonight we turn the clocks back here in NEPA.....

Honestly, I LOVE this time of year.....

When I was a child, I was not allowed to turn on the lights of the Christmas Tree until it was dark outside so I loved that it was dark here in NEPA by around 4:30pm!!

I would sit in the Living Room, with all other lighting turned off, and just stare at the Christmas Tree all lit up....

In later years, I had a small Tree of my own in my bedroom that I lit up whenever I felt like it and now, with all my seasonal Trees that I keep up year round, they are always lit!!

ALL my lighting is LED and that includes all the light bulbs in all my lamps and light fixtures in my house so keeping the lights on, costs almost nothing with the new energy efficient LED bulbs.......

In my next post on MONDAY, I will be moving over to my Christmas Blog, A Debbie-Dabble Christmas, until the New Year.....

I will be providing a link here to all my Christmas posts over on my Christmas Blog as I have in past years....

I will be sharing another Christmas Haul and will explain where I am and where I am not, with my Christmas decorating....

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

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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