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[ursulav]

Things are hoppin’ here at the House of Squash, both literally and figuratively!

Whole lotta statements landed on me this week, so I can announce a whomping 46,000 copies of Ninja Frogs sold, as of January 31st, and 31,000 of Were-Wiener,  which is awesome, because that’s nearly as many Ninja as Dragonbreath One, despite coming out almost a year

Comments

[ladycelia]

Have you thought about getting a beehive?

I'm in SC now, and a couple of weeks ago I had quite a few bumblebees, now nothing. But I've still got the occasional wasp, and a ton of grasshoppers all of a sudden.

[therhoda]

that what i was about to post. I have a friend who talked a local bee keeper into putting a hive on her back property so that her apple trees would get some help, last year she had a pathetic harvest because there were NO bees. the keeper was really excited to do it. you might want to check around i bet you could find someone.

[nefaria]

From some of the things I've read, beekeepers are as fomd of handing out new hives as Gideons are with their hotel bibles.

[persephone_kore]

Apples are good. If you want a hive for an acre of cucumbers, you'll probably have to pay. ;)

[ryokomusouka]

Are you sure you're not a nature photographer?

[cmattg]

What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happenin'.

[starcat_jewel]

Why should I want to know?

[lauragarabedian]

Neil Gaiman had mentioned in his journal that a lot of his hives died this winter as it got too cold, hopefully they'll rebound later...

Awesome news about sales though! That is just fantastic!

[deadshrimpblues]

I believe Brood XIX ('The Great Southern Brood*') is emerging this summer, or so NPR mentioned. Yay!

* 'The Great Southern Brood' sounds like either a lost William Faulkner collection or a Judy Blume story set in Atlanta.

*shudders and weeps.*

[kuangning]

No yay. The noise, oh, the constant, horrible, relentless, maddening noise... one or two are livable but annoying. More than five become wearisome very quickly. More than twenty shatter the peace, make it hard to concentrate and impossible to sleep, and they have a propensity for making their way inside houses through any little chink, where they assuredly do not make pleasant guests. And, to add insult to injury, they smell. Given a choice of roaches or cicadas, I'd find it hard to choose. Cicadas die more quickly, but roaches shut up, y'know?

Re: *shudders and weeps.*

[deadshrimpblues]

Well, they scream pretty much 24-7 here during the summer every year anyway, to the point where it has become more of a summer background drone than anything else. It's not summer without the shrieking fuck chorus of a million short-lived tree aliens.

Re: *shudders and weeps.*

[plantyhamchuk]

Wow - you have a way with words.