I almost went with a bird, another photo-life-lister (in this case, the
dipper) but decided that showing off my aforementioned intermittent ninja
skillz would be more fun. Ever since I was very, very young one of my most
compulsive hobbies has been flipping over rocks and chunks of wood to see if
anything is hiding beneath, and this time it paid off. When I was not much
older than very, very young, we lived near a creek in which I got pretty
good at hand-fishing for crawdads (or crayfish, or mudbugs, as you like).
Some things never change; this grumpy mudbug is in much the same pose as
when I caught it by my always-favored method of sneaking a hand up behind it
in icy river water and simply (good example of when simple does NOT equal
easy!) grabbing it exactly as I’m holding it in this pic. And yes, that is
my hand, which takes a size 7 ring on the index finger! It’s a bitty grumpy
bug…grin. After taking a quick set of pics, I put it back in the river a
few inches from where I found it and made sure it was tucked under another
good rock nearby.
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