At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic
At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung
You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping
Your caffeine addiction level: high
The other night while our kids were playing out back with some friends they made a little discovery...
So,
naturally I wondered what all the wonder was for... from a distance
there appeared to be something on the ground, a non-distinct, dark
something...
Eeewww! Beetles, beetles, and more beetles... ick, ick, ick! Want a closer look?
Yuck!
We've seen these buggers before... a lady at a local garden center told
me they were Japenese Beetles... but she was wrong. They're Rose Chafers.
Cute little buggers, aren't they? NO THEY'RE NOT! They're destructive
little rascals that will completely skeletonize the leaves of our
strawberry and raspberry plants (no roses here...) and I mean
skeletonize. A few years back, at our old house there was a
particularly bad year and if only I had pictures of what they did to
the strawberries and raspberries there!!! Ugh!!! There was nothing left
of the foliage, and if you remember elementary science (I know it's
been a few years since to actually took the class, but most of us here
have more recently taught the class!) well, leaves are pretty important to most plants...
If you'll look closely, you'll notice that these beetles are all
'stacked' in pairs... which means many more beetles to come,
right? So, after watching the ground move for a minute or two...
I told the boys to do away with them!
Well, there'll be a few less beetles anyway... and they had fun...
Those are awful. Last year my roses were decimated by little worms, and this year, something is eating my rhubarb leaves! I thought they were poisonous!
Cute blog! Love the balloon animals! And I hear ya on the Oreos...even the reduced fat ones are a point each with Weight Watchers! And who wants to eat just a few???
