13 year cicadas (Read 927 times)


We've Got Big Hills

    These little buggers have come back to Middle Tennessee just now.

     

    Why am I telling you this?  Why am I posting in "Health and Nutrition"?

     

    Watch for yourself.

    R2E


    the unrunner

      if you don't run, you'll rust. [tom petty] ..... i just wanna get back on track, even if it kills me. [motion city soundtrack] ..... if i only could be running up that hill, with no problems. if only i could, be running up that hill. [kate bush] ..... still running in place [alkaline trio] ..... at least i'll try and run, and run tonight, everything will be alright [the killers] ..... don't give up the distance. [flavio the magnificent]

      R2E


      the unrunner

        if you don't run, you'll rust. [tom petty] ..... i just wanna get back on track, even if it kills me. [motion city soundtrack] ..... if i only could be running up that hill, with no problems. if only i could, be running up that hill. [kate bush] ..... still running in place [alkaline trio] ..... at least i'll try and run, and run tonight, everything will be alright [the killers] ..... don't give up the distance. [flavio the magnificent]


        Menace to Sobriety

          We got 'em here, too.

          Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.


          mileage hound

            These little buggers have come back to Middle Tennessee just now.

             

            Why am I telling you this?  Why am I posting in "Health and Nutrition"?

             

            Watch for yourself.

             

            Sweet.  I like cicadas, I have never managed to see a mass emergence though, we just get the dogday harvestflies yearly.

             

            I'm surprised I haven't heard about this, my brother-in-law is an entomologist....yes, you can get called Doctor for being an expert in classifying mayflies.  Purdue University has a bug day thing where they have chocolate covered crickets etc, I think he worked it yearly.

            2012 goals:  Fastest race times since 2006.

             

            "If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does.  There's your pep talk for today.  Go Run." -- Slo_Hand

              WHY would anyone eat these things? Nasty. I vividly remember them in 1985 and I dread running & biking and the potential of them smacking me in the face or getting stuck in my sweaty hair. My 2.5 year old flips out when she sees so much as a dead fly. This should prove to be an interesting summer.

              I don't half-ass anything

               

              "I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death' and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up." - Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning

               

                We had them every summer growing up.  I used to love catching and then torturing the little things.  We used to put them in 2 liter soda bottle and then drop an m-80 firre cracker ito the thing before securing the lid.  Man those were the days.  We also used to eat june bugs and such growing up all on dares and sometimes for the fun of who could do the growsest things.  Man those were the good ol' days.

                "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas"  Davy Crockett


                Beware, batbear...

                  We had the cicadas in AVL a couple of years ago.  A girl came in with a big freezer bag full of the exoskeletons.

                  2012 Goals:

                  1.  1100+ miles.

                  2.  Streak starting in March or April if I'm healed.

                  3.  100 Push up challenge to get some upper body strength back.

                  4.  Get weight under 180 by the end of the summer.  

                  5.  1 or fewer alcoholic drinks 4+ nights per week every week.

                  6.  Concentrate on 5K distance and September HM.

                  7.  Have fun!

                   

                    We had a monster brood (X) in 2004. It's on a 17 year cycle. In places they were like leaves on the ground and walking to your car in a parking lot surrounded by trees there was crunching of dead and live cicadas with every step.

                    The process is the goal.

                    Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny