Photo of the week ending 12 August 2012

A bee on a rosemary bush I captured during the week, on a sunny day, yes, we got one! This was also my Fat Mum Slim Photo Challenge photo for the first of August - Outside

Open Garden #4

We are into August already, this year seems to be flying by. Only a month until things start getting exciting in the garden and Spring will be here.

Thank you to Melting Moments for linking up last week with a post about Dads old wheelbarrow.

Thanks also to Bernie in the second week of Open Garden, who added beautiful pictures of her garden in Queensland.

Add a post about your garden, garden photos or gardens you have visited. 

That ugly pot in the corner

I've been meaning to do something about this pot for a while, it's got scale or something. It's an elephant ears, there is one on the other side of the pergola that is doing very well. The last plant I had in this spot had the same thing, it's just not a good spot at all for a plant. 

Elephant ears in the garden

I cleaned up the pot and put some good soil from the compost heap in it, we went down to the hardware store and bought some pretty purple and white petunias. It's now out by the front door.

We had a spare petunia so we put it in the front garden next to the egyptian rose (Knautia) or pincushion flower, that I got from the bargain bin for a dollar a few weeks ago. It has come back to life beautifully.

Last week I bought these tulips in a gift pot at woolies, marked down to $5.50. We've found a place for these too, next to the crabapple tree, in the front yard.

Scone dough Pizza

Occasionally, I will make proper pizza dough, usually in the bread maker, it does all the work. For quick lunch time meals though, I just make scone dough pizza.

Whenever I get set up to make anything in the kitchen, Isabel is there. She loves to get in the way help, and insists on doing things by herself.  Drives me nuts, I think I need to be more patient and get over the extra mess. Rubs flour into butter, mess. Breaks egg, mess. Grates cheese, mess. I wish too that she would be happy standing on a chair, but I turn my back and she's on the bloody bench, got to be on top of it all, so that's usually where she gets in the way helps.

Scone Dough Pizza

2 Tblsp margarine

2 cups SR Flour

1 tsp salt

4 Tblsp milk

1 egg

Your favourite pizza toppings

Rub margarine into flour. Add salt, egg and milk and mix to make dough.

Add your toppings and bake at 200 degress for 15-20 minutes.

Summer enjoying pizza for lunch.

Soon after I sat down to eat, Dad called, he needed help tying and hanging up home made chorizo, so we packed up lunch and took it over to his shed to help out.