Sharon Delarose's Blog, page 14

Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 2

Part 2 of the Storm Defender dog cape story was supposed to be about the big storm that came thundering in and whether the Storm Defender dog cape kept our dog calm during the storm. The story, however, took a …read more

Storm Defender Dog Cape – Part 1

I couldn’t tell you when our dog’s storm fears began, only that it wasn’t always like this. Dakota had become deathly afraid of storms. One theory was that the lightning strike we had a couple years earlier was the trigger. …read more

1970s Slang of the Hippies

Remember the 70′s? It was a continuation of the 60′s generation with love and peace and flower power. Make love, not war. POW/MIA bracelets. We listened to 33 or 45 RPM records on our record players and 78 RPM records …read more

Butt Hurts from Losing Weight

I’ve been on a diet for six months now (26 weeks if you want to get technical) and have lost 24 pounds. Now the thing about losing weight is that you expect all sorts of positive benefits from it. For …read more

Lime Green and Brown Saddleback Caterpillar

Only in Georgia do you find every manner of bizarre and nasty bug imaginable and our one acre seemed to house the worst of them. We’d found two inch long dung beetles, scorpions, black widows, cow killer wasps, fire ants, …read more

Giant, Scary Hairy Ants

You don’t have to go to the Amazon jungle to find strange and bizarre creatures. They might be living in your own backyard. The state of Georgia has an abundance of giant bugs, creepy bugs, nasty bugs and cool bugs. …read more

Do turtles eat strawberries?

If it wasn’t for our dog Dakota we wouldn’t know about half of the creatures we share our one acre with. She’d led us to Eastern Kingsnakes, Minotaur Dung Beetles and a variety of other interesting creatures and plants. This …read more

Do Squirrels Eat Peaches?

We’ve had a heck of a time trying to grow peaches in our back yard. We live in Georgia, which is known as the Peach State, where even the license plates show pictures of peaches so you’d think it would …read more

Big Hairy Spider

The spider web was a gigantic maze of concentric circles just outside our front door. The spider’s web connected the front porch roof to the front porch railing. Right in the center of the giant spider web was a big …read more

Assassin Bug Nymph

Somewhere I’d heard that bright red bugs should be avoided at all costs, promising serious pain from bites or stings. In the case of the Cow Killer wasp this was definitely true, so when I happened upon another vividly colored …read more