One tried to get on board Air Force One with President Bush.
Posted on 04/19/2016 2:46:39 PM PDT by beaversmom
Yep, 1960’s in Ohio.
Gazillions of them.
One tried to get on board Air Force One with President Bush.
“The exoskeletons”
In the 3rd grade they made cool little ornaments to carefully place in the hair of the girls sitting in front of you.
Once the other girls notice it sets off a chorus of shrieks.
That earned us pushing chalk up a sidewalk with our noses at Wilshire Elementary, San Antone.
Story of my life.
My lab pup locked eating them that summer and her time outside had to be limited. We put the old girl down a few weeks ago.
Cool they will be back.
We had them in Texas too. Every summer.
As a kid, I tried to catch them by hand when they were low enough on the trees. They were not amused and would get extra loud until released.
Scary looking but mostly harmless to humans. To cicadas, not so much...
Zombie Democrat cicadas.
BTW, cicadas cause untold damage to agriculture if not controlled. They especially seem to like Pecan trees. Hence, we are happy to have cicada killer wasps here in Texas!
I had a patient once who fried them up in garlic and butter.
He was allergic to shellfish, and ended up having a reaction.
But he did say they were delicious.
Sorry to hear about your lab pup. Hope she lived a good, long life.
Lightning bugs are scary, but fireflies are really fairies. (The ones in San Francisco are fake.)
And cicadas are noisy, but katydids are musical.
At least that’s my philosophy. :-)
Helen's heart yearned after her former husband, her city, and her parents. She threw a white mantle over her head, and hurried from her room, weeping as she went, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids, Aethrae, daughter of Pittheus, and Clymene. And straightway they were at the Scaean gates. The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars. These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicadas that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood. When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another, "Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.
She did until the end, nothing to be sorry about.
I’m sure the young pup will like them too.
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