July 26th, 2012: CICADA!

Now for my news I wanted to tell you yesterday!

Cicada! Cicada! Cicaaaaaadaaaaaas!

I bet you can't possibly guess what I saw today.  Alright I'll tell you.  It was a Cicada. Ha!

I have kind of had a slight obsession with these little guys as of late because every time I tried to tell Chad what bug noise the Cicada was making it would stop making the noise.  I would try to non-verbally tell him but the moment I tried to get his attention they would stop making the noise again!

He most likely thinks I'm crazy and that there is no such thing as this bug I keep trying to tell him about. Well, well, well. I have the proof for you mister! Or any others that think I'm crazy. (For this reason and not other reasons you might think I'm crazy.)

I took pictures of it but I also took a bit of a video.  So you can awe in the splendor of the Cicada.  You also get to see my magical double chin that formed in the making of this video.  I couldn't see what I was filming so yeah, bad angle.  Plus sorry it's sideways.  Didn't know it would turn out that way. Meh.

I was a bit excited, no?

I'm so easily amused....

I found two separate shed skins so that means there is another little guy running around. When I saw the first one I thought it was alive but once I got close for the picture I saw it was just the skin.

I saw the first one while I was mowing the lawn.  All I saw was this large dark bug looking thing and decided to stop and get a better look at it.  Turned out it was a Cicada skin.  Kinda neat.

Then I saw this guy once I started mowing along the side of my house.  Look at those beady eyes!  It was pretty neat finally seeing one up close and personal.  Now I feel like I've accomplished some sort of life goal or something.