when I was young we would take a thread and tie a loop around the thorax of those bugs and fly them around.
I have a canoe sitting aside my garage and I think I must get a canopy on my lil truck and take the canoe out to the mountain lakes and such this year....yes that just became a priority
Happy to hear you had a safe and happy time.

((((Lin))))

btw
did you ever buy that collectors edition ROTK with the Minas Tirith model/box?