I am also having some major bad weather coming through but at least it is keeping those pesky cicadaas out of my hair. I am doing my best to be patient with them and have even saved a few from horrible deaths! Yesterday I came in from gardening and had 2 on my back, 1 on the front of my t-shirt and 1 in my hair. Thank the Lord they only come every 17 years. If anyone out there has not heard of these bugs. They are bigger than a horse fly and have red eyes.
You guys all crack me up, but I had to respond to the cicadas. Are they at least hard, and crunchy? Where I grew up there was something even worse that came in cycles like that -- "tent caterpillars" (also known as "army worms"). They are just as prolific in their cycles (I forget how many years apart, maybe 10) ... you find them on the house siding, on your car, underfoot, they drop down out of trees onto your hair -- and they're soft and mushy if you step on them. I'd rather have the crunchy type, even if they have beady red eyes. The caterpillars are very silent though ...
Actually, I thought we had cicadas in the summer all the time when I moved a bit further south. At least there's a high-pitched hum, almost like an electrical wire, that typically fills the air in late summer. Different from grasshoppers and crickets -- sort of a vibratory sound. I enjoy all the sounds of nature in the summer, the aforesead, plus frogs and toads ... it's always relaxing to go to sleep with the windows open hearing them.
No tornados in this area, thankfully.
