The Year of the Hopper

2o1o marked the first year that I didn't plant a garden or a single tomato plant.

Most years I go overboard and have way too many plants for our family. Every year I plan on doing lots of canning and freezing of fresh vegetables. Eventually the weeds get out of control, and I end up with way too many zucchini plants. So we would buckle down and weed the garden. We would get it looking good and then the cows would decide to jump fence to have a light snack at the salad bar. Nothing ends up getting canned or frozen and I always end the year saying next year the garden will be bigger and better!

For some reason I didn't get the garden planted this spring. It could have been because of this little guy

or maybe I wanted to just enjoy my husband farming his

fields of corn, sugar beets and beans.

Or maybe it was because I knew that the grasshopper population

would explode and take over the world.

The destructive little 'buggers' have stripped my chokecherry bushes of leaves,

eaten the rhubarb completely off,

and wrecked havoc in my yard and eaten off what perennials I had left from"that pig."

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Now they are moving through the fields and the

guys are working non stop to get everything sprayed

before they destroy the crops.

Thankfully they sprayed my yard.

Now we can walk through the yard,

without wading through thousands of insects.

Next year Dani we will have pickles!