I love late summer flowers. Dahlias and Gladiolis are popping up all
over the garden, I'm so pleased as I have a new found love for them.
They remind me of my Nan who loved Dahlias. I, for some strange reason,
did pull up a whole heap of bulbs and tossed them away when we first
moved in here. I have no idea why but I'm so pleased most of them still
thrive out there.
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| Rat damage |
I'm loving the water lillies that have graced our pond as well, it must be a fairly healthy environment at the moment as we have some baby goldfish to go with our other six guppies in there at the moment. Obviously when a school friend of my big girl dropped off a couple more goldfish for us one must have been a boy! The girls are loving seeing these baby fish and really enjoy feeding them.
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| You can even see one of the baby fish (little brown thing) if you look closely enough. |
The husband has always liked to drink Lemon & Barley water as a thirst quencher, but at $5 a bottle when we go through it quickly it seems a bit pricey. So he googled a recipe the other day and made some. About 50c worth of barley, a bit of sugar, water, lemon and there you go. Plus the chooks loved the left over barley once it was strained off. Homemade Lemon & Barley - much better for us too as sugar isn't the main ingredient anymore.
Recipe here
It's been a weekend of getting ready for school again. After 7 weeks finally school is going back tomorrow. I've loved most of the holidays but being a working parent means that the last two weeks have been a bit of a juggle. Bags are almost all packed and baking has been done.
Have a lovely week xxx Kylie
5 comments:
What stunning colours of the Dahlias and Gladdies.
I grow some Dahlias from my mums garden, it's such a lovely reminder of her.
I've never heard of rats getting into the fruit...... We have parrots. Glad you were able to save some of your fruit, I love peaches straight from the tree.
Beautiful Water Lilly too, very graceful looking.
Well done on the home made lemon and Barley drink, great to be able to make it yourself.
All the best with the back to school routine......
Claire X
Claire - I'm assuming it's rats, the chew marks show teeth, and the possums wouldn't be able to balance on the teeny branches. The birds certainly have a good go once the initial chewing has started ;)
That's so lovely that you have Dahlias from your Mums garden x
Wow hon your dahlias are amazing! They are one of my faves and I wish I had space to grow them. Well done on getting those bags on - what a brilliant idea! Pesky little buggers - that'll teach them. I'm definitely going to get some barley and try your recipe - anything to save some $$ ay. Hope your morning went well with school starting. L xx
Great post Kylie! I cant think of anything more annoying than having all your gorgeous produce stolen (or nibbled on!) before you can get to it. Love the wee fishies too! I am definately going to try the recipe for Lemon and Barley water - sounds yummy! I wanted to award you with the 'Versatile Blogger' award - it is supposed to go to 15 'new' blogs you have discovered I believe and you should also list 7 interesting things about yourself...pop over to mine to copy the award hon. www.rebeccadornediaries.blogspot.com
Hello! Lovely to meet you, I'm a new follower. I'm so jealous of all your sunshine, it's freezing here at the moment xxx
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