Sharon Delarose's Blog, page 13

Fuzzy White Caterpillar

Some bugs are easy to identify such as the Saddleback Caterpillar and Cow Killer Wasp, others are more difficult to identify such as this fuzzy white caterpillar. All four photos are of the same caterpillar from different angles and against …read more

Tree Face Bird Houses

There is nothing more exciting than your birds coming home to roost, especially if you’ve been waiting for years for them to roost up the nose of a tree face bird house. My husband had been wanting tree faces, and …read more

Dog Changing Colors

There are many reasons for a dog’s skin color to change. An aging dog’s nose may start turning pink. In cold weather some dogs get Winter Nose or Snow Nose, causing their nose to turn pink. There’s a long list …read more

Redneck Hillbilly Pontoon

We were booking a vacation at the lake and this was intended to be a dog trip. Unlike most road trips where the dogs get penned up in somebody’s living room for a week, the dogs were going to go …read more

Dog Versus Big Snake

I have now officially lost track of how many times our dog Dakota has put the fear of her death into me. She is not a dainty little dog. Dakota is what you’d call a dog’s dog, totally immersed in …read more

Stung by a Saddleback Caterpillar

We encountered our first Saddleback Caterpillar two years ago. We turned the caterpillar into a photo opp and added him to the blog after doing some research and finding out how nasty his stingers could be. Thankfully we had not …read more

Wytheville UFO Road Trip

I had just published a book called Alien Nightmares which mentioned the wave of UFO sightings in Wytheville, Virginia in 1987-1988. About a week after the book went live we left for a road trip from Georgia to New York. …read more

Stinky Dog

Our dog Dakota came into the house stinking like a dead thing. She’d only been outdoors a few minutes for potty and in that short time she’d gotten into something so foul smelling that you could smell her from several …read more

Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 4

You’d think that the Storm Defender saga would be over but nope, there is another installment to the story. In Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 2, I shared the story of how the Storm Defender seemed to prevent storms …read more

Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 3

I can’t believe that a whole year has passed since I last posted about our dog Dakota and her fear of thunderstorms. In Part 1 of our dog’s fear of thunderstorms, we ordered the Storm Defender Dog Cape. In Part …read more