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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 22, 2021 18:02:27 GMT -6
We were in the sixties this morning with strong breezes and low humidity. I took my younger children kite flying for their exercise today.
Heavyhitterokra, because of the grasshopper stories you tell on this thread, now every time I see a grasshopper, I think of you.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 13, 2022 9:44:24 GMT -6
This is some of what the grasshoppers have been doing to me this year.
My okra.
More of my okra.
My yellow summer squash.
More of my yellow summer squash.
Yet another summer squash.Timber! This is what happens when you cross a grasshopper with a beaver. Another GMO experiment gone awry.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2022 11:25:25 GMT -6
That's awful, Ron.
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Post by woodeye on Jul 13, 2022 16:09:58 GMT -6
I have never seen such garden carnage in my life, that is truly disgusting...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 17, 2022 18:40:54 GMT -6
Well, the grandkids came to visit this weekend, so like any good grandpa, I like to spoil them with treats every chance I get. Today, it was fried grasshopper treats. We caught a cup full of them last night, then froze them. After Church today, the girls and I sat down and pulled all their legs and wings off. (That will help prepare their little hearts for when the boys come calling).
When we got finished, we sautéed our catch in garlic butter and sprinkled them with southwest-style fajita seasoning, and salt, then drizzled them with lemon juice. I gotta say, they're right up there with roasted okra seed coffee.
Mmm, Mmm, Lemony Cricket! Eden loves them! Avery, not so much; she's kind of a girly girl, but Eden is more adventurous.
I've been told that when sautéed in butter with roasted garlic and lemon; grasshoppers are comparable to shrimp scampi. I think next time we're eating out, I'll just order the shrimp.
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Post by macmex on Jul 17, 2022 18:56:41 GMT -6
Hmm, when my Oaxacan friends made them the grasshoppers were actually quite tasty. Unlike ... roselle seed coffee! I can't remember how okra seed coffee tasted, but I think it would be good.
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Post by woodeye on Jul 17, 2022 19:25:19 GMT -6
Well I never say I will never ever eat something, because I never know what situations life will present me with, and being the survivor that I am, I would eat them if I had to for existential purposes. I also can't say that I would eagerly partake of your bounty, but I think it's more of a psychological impediment that causes me to not put them in my top ten odd foodstuffs to test. Which is in itself is strange, because I've long been considered a psycho.
They do look good in the photos...
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Post by hmoosek on Jul 17, 2022 20:09:41 GMT -6
What was it Crocodile Dundee said? You can live off it, but it taste like …. Seriously, It’s Like woodeye said, I won’t say never, but I don’t relish the thought of eating bugs.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 17, 2022 20:14:20 GMT -6
Maybe, I shoulda tried the relish ... Bugs with relish might be the ticket!
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Post by woodeye on Jul 17, 2022 20:47:02 GMT -6
Maybe, I shoulda tried the relish ... Bugs with relish might be the ticket! Bawahahaha!!
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Post by rdback on Jul 19, 2022 8:39:10 GMT -6
Where's the chocolate fondue pot? That might hide enhance the taste!
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Post by hmoosek on Jul 19, 2022 10:34:44 GMT -6
Where's the chocolate fondue pot? That might hide enhance the taste!
I’d be like, “well doggone I ate all the chocolate, what am I gonna do with all these bugs!”
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 2, 2022 12:05:36 GMT -6
Between blister bugs, drought, deer, and grasshoppers, my poor garden is just about done for. It seems like this year has been especially plagued with vermin. I was hoping the heavy rains might drown the grasshoppers, but they are just about as bad now as they ever were. I turn my geese loose on them every morning at sunrise, so they can eat the hoppers before the hoppers warm up and fly away. The geese surprise me with their insatiable apatite for insects; they eat way more grasshoppers than the chickens and still pursue them with great enthusiasm. I think the chickens at this point could hardly care less if they ever saw a grasshopper again, but the geese cherish the opportunity to chase them every time I turn them loose.
The Great Grasshopper Chase of 2022. It does my heart good to see the geese still willing to chase these grasshoppers. The chickens lost interest in them long ago, but the geese never tire of chasing them. (I never noticed this until just now, but if you enlarge this picture there is a deer in the background, busily munching on my okra). I must have left the gate open when I drove the geese through there.
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Post by hmoosek on Aug 2, 2022 13:00:45 GMT -6
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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 2, 2022 13:40:29 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra, are those your Cotton Patch Geese and Canada Geese, too? I’m sorry you’re still having all the grasshopper damage, but I’m glad you’re getting some help controlling them. Deer will find any open gate here except when they’ve gotten into a place you don’t want them. Then they can’t seem to find the gate to get out.
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