Daily Archives: June 13, 2011
Locusts and Chicken . . .
First off, I have to pass on this hilarious email from our daughter Brandi concerning our grandson Landon’s weekend antics.
Had a great weekend. Landon is loving the pool. Now he leans WAYYY over in his floatie and dunks his head under the water. I think he is drinking the pool water!!
YUCK!
OH, also your grandson ate most of a Locust yesterday!!
GROSSSS!
I am gagging just thinking about it.
Apparently, Kitty (their 105 lb. Black Lab) likes to kill and eat them, and she must have brought one in to snack on at a later time.
What’s worse is it happened on MY watch right in front of me. I had just vacuumed and was folding some clothes in the living room and he was by the fireplace playing with something, being very quiet.
Well, I am learning that when it’s quiet it usually means he is up to NO good!! When I went to inspect what he was up to I found him chewing and sucking on the remainders of a green slimy bug.
YACK YACK!
I immediately took him to the kitchen and tried to wipe out his mouth (to no avail) and sanitize him as much as possible.
I found a pair of wings, YACK BARF! clenched in his hand and his tongue was green and covered in some slimy stuff.
GAG BARF!
I think I may have even seen a leg in there.
GAG!!!
He did not seem bothered by it, but was more than happy to drink some juice and eat some banana puffs. He soon after took a nap.
While he was asleep in my arms I could make out the other half of the bugs body still by the fireplace. When Lowell got up from his nap I made him go inspect it and make sure our son was going to be OK.
He said it was a Locust and looked it up online. Apparently, in some countries it is a yummy snack so it looks like I need to chalk this up to the first of many yucky things my son will put in his mouth.
Love ya,
Brandi
FYI Locust is just another name for grasshopper.
Hmmm! Looks tasty.
Getting back to this morning, I got up about 10 and did the usual coffee and muffins thing. The last of them as it turns so we’ll need to stock up again soon.
After doing client Internet stuff, I worked outside cleaning off the bugs from our front cap that we’d picked up on our trip here from Weed. They look like some kind of flying ant, but a little Awesome and a microfiber cloth, and a final rinse with the hose, took care of them.
We had decided that today was a stay-at-home day, so Jan put a batch of her famous Tuscany Chicken in the crockpot and whipped up a pan of Tastefully Simple’s Nana’s Apple Cake Mix using fresh apples, that she got from Jeanne Sparks at Nick Russell’s Gypsy Journal Rally in Yuma this past March. We tried a number of the Tastefully Simple products and they’ve all been good. Check’em out.
After being taunted all afternoon by the delicious smells, we finally ate about 5 pm, and it was even better tasting than smelling.
Tomorrow Jan and I going make the 130 mile trip down to Crater Lake National Park. The trip would only be 85 miles, except for the fact the the north entrance is still snowed in. So we’ll have to drive 100 miles south on US 97, then come back up 30 miles into the park.
Right now the temps are in the low 50’s in the daytime, and in the mid 20’s at night. Here’s a webcam shot of what it looked like this morning at the Park Headquarters.
And yes, those are 20 foot snow drifts surrounding the parking lot.
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Thought for the Day:
“What Good Fortune for the State that people do not think!” – Adolph Hitler – 1933
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