Crickets. Everywhere. I think we may have offended a higher power, we seem to be experiencing a plague of crickets. You can't go anywhere in this house without running into them. The garage is thick with them, they hop out from under doorways, they've even appeared in the ceiling vent in the laundry room. We've sprayed, we've sticky trapped, and still they come. I find them irritating and overly abundant. Lee seems to be taking their presence personally. Like they know he hates them and they're coming for him intentionally. Apparently he has some sort of crazy bat like hearing, which means that the incessant chirping of the two that are caught under our kitchen cabinets is slowly driving him mad. He Googled how long crickets live, he was not pleased with the answer, we may be putting up with those two house guests for some time. We've all become adept cricket slayers. Lee has the highest body count, I'm not doing too badly myself though. Mitchell has slain two, one with a butter knife (eww). Even Sam accidentally stomped on one in the garage. I assume this is some sort of seasonal thing, and they'll go away eventually, I just hope Lee comes out of it with his sanity intact.
Friday, July 23, 2010
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This ALSO would not be a problem in Sequim.
:)
Bugs in the house, no matter the variety, are ick.
aahhh, i'm sorry!
i need to know: are they the horrible spikey black ones, or a greenish variety?
guess it's what you get for being mormon. maybe it'll end after pioneer day. ;)
or maybe i should stop writing comments after midnight . . .
Um, gross. That really stinks.
My parents get grasshoppers in huge amounts this time of year. It's been so bad that in years past you could actually see them jumping all over the road on the way up to their house (and see their carcasses smashed into the asphalt). The good news was it only lasts a few weeks. Hopefully yours crickets will be similar.
i remember all the crickets! bowby used to go hunt them. we called him the cricket hunter. they are so gross when they are in your house.
That is insanely annoying! Sorry Pooleys! (Better than mice? Or scorpions?)
What happened to your blog layout? Where's the header? Where's Sam? Hmmmm....
You are a brave women. I wouldn't be able to handle it. I should probably start including a "no cricket/bug" phrase in my prayers.
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