• hawkwind@lemmy.management
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    1 year ago

    There was a “grasshopper” year when I was a teenager… Sometime in the 90s I think. I remember how you could see waves of them in front of something was moving through the field; and all the plugged up radiators. So many pugged up radiators… The carwash had to put a grate over the drain and throw into a grasshopper pile everyday so it didn’t plug up the drain.

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      I remember a grasshopper year in (I think) 1986, visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan. We flew into Regina and picked up the rental car, an hour and a half later it was absolutely covered in grasshoppers. It’s a really distinct memory from my childhood.