Grass-ee-go-was!!!

So as some of you know we just recently moved into our new home Well it is out in

the middle of a huge field,we are surrounded by weeds, rocks, and a beautifully huge mountain.Part of the charm of this location is the fact that we can breed grasshoppers out here. I know amazing, right? I mean grasshoppers are pretty rare. (ha!) Our grasshopper farm is so successful that when you walk out side its like the red sea parting , only its a sea of brown hoppers.

We recently had a nice snow about 4" it was lovely.I was real worried about all our hoppers because they are so valuable and rare. We figured that the whole lot was gone. A sacrifice to the beautiful winter weather. Amazingly enough our hopper farm is not stinted by weather either. They were still there after the snow melted. How you ask? I'm not sure. maybe our ground is radioactive and these are mutant winter hoppers.Who knows.

Emi was quite concerned abut the few brave ones that were dead in our garage. She is so cute, she calls them grass-ee-go-was. I told her they were in heaven now. She looked confused so I said, what we always said to Kenna in these situations. "They kicked the bucket." She laughed and said " grass-ee-go-was keek bkt! haaaa." she started to pick them up and didn't understand why I mildly freaked out. "Yucky Em! yucky poo!!!" She is a smart girl and figured it out. She said, "EWWW GOSE!!"

Parker came to the rescue.The wonderful big brother he is. He has been catching them for one of the teachers at school, they feed them to the lizards in class, he had a jar full of hoppers so he let Emi hold them. She was in heaven. It just doesn't get any better than a jar of hoppers.