Woodpress

Grasshoppers freak out my wife. Something about them getting stuck to your clothes and losing legs when you pull them off, I think… but she’s pretty quick to change the subject, so I really don’t know much about this particular phobia. I figure if I keep bringing it up, eventually she’ll either tell me about it or get over it (or both). Anyway, neither of those things has happened yet, so she’s going to hurt me for this picture.

To me, grasshoppers are kind of cute. Not at all like in A Bug’s Life. When I was a kid, I caught many grasshoppers, and although I did dissect a couple (my wife is going to hurt me more for mentioning that, I suspect), I quickly got over that and viewed them as pets. One summer I collected over 50 grasshoppers in a box (covered with plastic wrap) and named them all.