DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: Front Porch Update, Mother's Day Sunset & New Haul, 2026

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......

BLOGGING FOR FUN AND FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!

Monday, May 11, 2026

Front Porch Update, Mother's Day Sunset & New Haul, 2026

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 continued to share how I decorated the Den in an English Cottage style with a bit of Americana thrown in

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

Thanks to Esme, over at Esme Salon, for choosing my Blog Post, Late Spring/Summer Patio & Fairy Garden Tub, as one of her features from last week's Happiness is Homemade Link Party!!

Thanks so much, Esme!!

Thanks to Melynda, over at Scratch Made Food & DIY Homemade Household, for choosing my Blog Post, Late Spring/Summer Patio and Fairy Garden Tub, as one of her features from last week's Senior Salon Pit Shop Link Party!!

Thanks again, Melynda!!

Please stop by and link up to these wonderful parties!!

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...

For today's post, I will be sharing what I bought recently, since today is Monday......

After setting up my back patio, I decided to buy more faux flowers.....

I bought these from Amazon this year....

Hard to believe that there are 24 bushes in this package, isn't it????

2 different types.....

I wanted to use faux flowers in this birdcage.....

So I would not have to water them.....

This tiered plant stand always presented a problem when I would water the pots on it and I would frequently end up with water all over the place around it...

So I decided to go with pots with hens and chicks on the top 2 tiers, which require almost no watering and fill the pot on the bottom tier with faux flowers....

This way, I will not be doing any watering on the Patio itself.....

Now of course, I had left over flowers so I added some to pots that I already made up....

Like this one......

And this one.....

This one.....

And this one.....

All out on the back patio.....

So now when I do go to buy my annuals next week, as we have frost predicted for tomorrow morning, I will only be planting them in pots out in the yard.....

I took the remaining red and yellow flowers and added them to a few pots on the front porch.....

Like the red ones in this pot....

You may remember that I shared these pot huggers and a Bee sign that I bought in Dollar Tree....

I added the Lady Bug one to this pot....

Along with one of the bee ones....

I think they are adorable.....

I am hoping to repaint this milk can some time this Summer.....

Over in the corner....

I hung the bee sign here....

I added some red flowers to this pot....

Along with a bee hugger....

And I added 2 bushes of red flowers to each side of this planter in front of the railing....

I also bought a new mailbox cover at Gabes for my faux mailbox that I keep garden tools in......

I also bought this fan that is rechargable......

I hope to be able to use this outside on my porch and patio so I can at least, hopefully, enjoy sitting out there despite the heat and humidity....

And lastly, I want to share this beautiful Mother's Day Sunset....

What a view from my front porch....

More on how I celebrated Mother's Day on Sunday and on my upcoming Family celebration in a future post....

I hope you will stop by to visit again on THURSDAY for my next post .....

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!!

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