The new fascination at our house is bugs. Not just any bug will do either. E loves the grasshoppers and crickets. Not because E is scared of them or wants to keep them as pets. No not my girl. She likes to find them to catch them to feed them to our fish.
A little background I guess is needed. We were at my dads earlier in the summer and D caught some really small fish, I mean really small fish. So we decided to take a few home and put them in our water garden pond. Two bass and one crappie.
Well these fish are rather picky, they refuse to eat the goldfish food. So we have spoiled them and had been going to Petsmart every weekend and buying them two dozen rosy red minnows to eat. At first we just let all the minnows go at once but after awhile that got boring so then we would put the bag on the top of the water and let it float around, but that had to stop because one of the fish figured out how to put a hole in the bag to get the minnows out.
Now we put the minnows in one at a time so we can watch the bass come to the top and eat the minnows. It takes less then a second and really all you can see is a cloud of iridescence from the scales of the minnows but we are slightly twisted people and get a big kick out of this.
So I digress, Petsmart is like a half hour away and was getting to be a pain to drive to if we didn't need to go anywhere else, she we started to look for a closer source for food for our spoiled fish. Well we hit the jackpot in our backyard. It seems that the grasshoppers really enjoy spending time in the kind of grass we have back there.
So now we have a nightly ritual of catching the bugs to feed to our fish. E has the best eye at spotting them. All of the sudden she will yell "Momma grass-hopper" and D will have to go over and try to catch it. Then we all make our way back to the front of the house to our water garden pond to watch him throw it in so we can watch the bass devour it instantly. This totally cracks E up, she absolutely loves it.
Oh the joy of being young.
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4 comments:
Rofl that is so cute. Enjoy the bug chasing days. Their is nothing quite like the sound of a child's laughter.
Ewwwwww. Why do they always like the bugs and germ infested things? I know there is hope, as I used to eat pill bugs, and look at my neurotic germ tendencies now LOL Capture those squeals in your memory bank and on tape, so you can relive them in the teenage years when they aren't so cute ;)
That is sooooo cute!! I'd love to see that firsthand. LOL
Sounds like fun to me. Hehe
WTG E!! That a girl! :D
Oh I love it. I bet that is the cutest thign to see.
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