*shiver*

I was outside playing with my son, Yoda. That's what he's calling himself these days. Well that and Mickey Mouse. I decided to water the hanging baskets on my porch. (It can rain cats and dogs but these things never get wet because of the overhang on the porch.) It still floors me that I have azalea bushes blooming and strange new things growing in my garden in NOVEMBER but I digress...

I unrolled 7 loops of hose, that's how many it takes to reach the farthest basket. I was pulling the hose to go around the corner of the planter box and what do you think I found?

This.....


Blech!

What in the?!!?!? I have no freaking idea what kind of bug that is. I know that that back leg makes it walk like a grasshopper and that it can fly, much to my dismay. I have got to tell you Louisiana is like a freakin "LOST WORLD" There are so many bugs I have never seen before here and they are all HUGE! This thing was over an inch long! *shiver* I imagine watching me roll the hose back up was probably amusing. I didn't want to squish it because then I'd have that things guts on my hose but I didn't want to make it spaz out and fly at me or something. My son wasn't happy unless I had my arm around him. He was afraid that thing was gonna come for him. I had a little bit of that fear myself! One good thing about this discovery....It was outside not inside!