Sunday Selections #559

 Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look.

this rundown house and yard, along with its neighbour, are to be demolished and replaced with>

thirteen Townhouses. The blocks are large, so thirteen isn't such a huge number, although I do wonder how much yard space each will have

this is what they will look like, not sure if they will be two or three stories, but I see balconies and slightly different designs for each one. Better than the "Lego Block" houses I showed a few weeks ago at least.

notice the lump in the unmade bed? Lola. Suffering through one of her headaches and feeling quite warm with it, but refusing to leave the bed and come into the light. She would leave in the dark of night and drink water, so that was okay and by evening of day two I pushed a small bowl of food under the blankets right up to her nose and hoped for the best. She ate. I repeated that twice the next day and the following day she came out on her own as soon as the day had finished and I only had one lamp switched on. So we made it through without a visit to the vet, which is a relief for me, because I just can't carry her anymore. The weight stirs up the old "tennis elbow" which I have on both arms.

hollyhocks everywhere are reaching for the skies

my favourite rose in the neighbour's footpath garden is blooming again

and I noticed this orange one that must have been here all along, but I don't recall seeing it, perhaps it opens to a more yellow shade and I just haven't seen this early colour

neighbours across the road put up some "spooky" spiderweb for Halloween and I saw a few trick-or-treaters going into the yard where it seems goodies were laid out for them. These are the first kids (teenagers) I've seen trick-or treating since I moved here. It isn't commonly done here in Australia

my blog friend Doug recently tried his hand at making pizza. I liked the oblong shape so I copied it, baked in a foil lined pan just as he did it. The foil is brushed with oil to help the pizza base crisp and brown during baking.

the fluffy white bits you see on my pizza are hand torn from a ball of Buffalo Mozzarella, this comes in a sealed tub of brine for about $7, so I won't buy it every time, but I do like it. Other toppings are pineapple, garlic, olives, capsicum, tomato, mushroom and basil. And salami.

here it is ready to eat and while it was baking..

..I heard the girls talking excitedly about something they had seen me unpack from the shopping bag

Marshmallow Santas! Chocolate coated of course. They shared one after dinner.

Finally, I was lucky enough to at last get a great sunset photo, pretty nice eh?