Comments on: The Sound of Maracas http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas Keeping up with Sheri's Loopy Life... Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:27:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anna Devine http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107391 Anna Devine Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:04:05 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107391 OK, I just have to tell you what happened the last time the cicadas were here (Nashville, TN). I was driving a car without AC, so had the windows down. While waiting at the light on Old Hickory (not gonna say which light or which part of OH! If you’ve been here, you know “all streets are Old Hickory, and you can’t get there from here”) one of the d**n things flew in the window & landed on my neck. Of course I screeched like a banshee, but I also jumped — taking my foot off the brake, and hitting the truck in front of me. The driver was a very nice gentleman, he even caught the bug (it was sitting on my headrest, while I was outside the car!), and didn’t even call the cops. Needless to say, I insist on having AC in the car, and the windows are almost never rolled down! But I know there’s really nothing to be afraid of, as the silly things don’t even have mouth parts (no biting), and they don’t sting. So a couple of days ago I picked one up & threw it at my daughter, who obliged me by freaking out in public. Tee-hee!

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107315 Cheryl Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:31:35 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107315 Hey, I don’t like bugs at all either, but there are other varmints (mice) that totally and completely will freak me out. However, the hearing loss I have means that I do not hear crickets (or some birds) and the only thing “bugging” me right now is the loud bullfrogs off the lake behind our house. We go through their noise every spring/summer.

]]> By: Roxanne http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107261 Roxanne Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:11:57 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107261 This year is supposed to be busy for cicadas, since the Great Southern Brood is hatching. It’s the largest of the periodical broods and only emerges every 13 years.

They are edible, you know.

]]> By: Sue http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107132 Sue Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:12:00 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107132 Gryphon hasn’t come out with cicada bugga yet? It sure sounds like when and if she does, you won’t be stocking it!

]]> By: Mindy http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107121 Mindy Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:01:00 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107121 I was watching House Hunters Intl the other night and a couple was looking at a house someplace where there were loads of very loud cicadas. The wife wanted to know wasn’t there some animal they could hire to eat those things!

]]> By: Linda http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107111 Linda Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:19:11 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107111 I don’t mind cicadas but I would NOT cope with one on my back. Gross.

]]> By: Paulette http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107096 Paulette Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:29:50 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107096 I don’t think you’re going to miss St. Louis at all, between the summer heat, tornadoes, cicadas. Your Loopy elves, your friends and customers—yes, the other stuff, no! We love Colorado and have traveled there often. That must be why our daughter lived there for 3 years, now living in Florida, and probably going back to CO someday. A close friend lives in Fort Collins, so I’m excited to be able to come visit sometime! I like Fort Collins alot! Could see living there…….So happy for you that this is all working out~

]]> By: Becca http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107089 Becca Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:45:27 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107089 @ Joannah, annoying as they are, I would take cicadas over black flies any day of the week. I have spent many summers of my life in the woods of northern Maine. Ciacas may be big and loud and ugly, but at least they don’t bite!
My 3 yr old got buzzed by a low flying cicada while working in the garden the other day. It freaked the poor little guy out. He calmed down when I told him that even though they are loud and ugly, like most loud ugly things, they won’t hurt you. He spent the rest of the day telling everyone he saw, “Loud and ugly won’t hurt you.”

]]> By: Carolina http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107084 Carolina Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107084 You are lucky… I actually had one of those 13-year cicadas start buzzing around in my car (it had attached itself to – you guessed it – my back!) while I was going 65mph and I very nearly DID get into a car accident, swerving and almost hitting the car driving next to me. Those things are dangerous! And nasty! I totally wouldn’t have taken it back outside either. Luckily, it only lasts a few weeks. Pretty soon you’ll hit the gross part… when all the dead bodies line the streets. YUCK!

]]> By: Shannon http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/2011/06/the-sound-of-maracas/comment-page-1/#comment-107078 Shannon Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:47:44 +0000 http://www.theloopyewe.com/sheri/?p=9134#comment-107078 This sounds like something that would happen to me!

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