The dogs looking at you like "Here I didn't think he liked crickets, well if he really wants it....I guess." Speaking of crickets last year there was a couple murders close by, in a interview this guy said twenty years ago all you ever heard around here were crickets. That's when I realized you don't ever hear crickets anymore. I went to the pet store to buy some crickets. Now mind you I've had my run in with a cricket before. Right after I bought my house there was this really loud cricket in my front yard. He'd drive me insane when I tried to go to bed. Some nights I would go out there determined to kill him. It was like he knew every time I'd go to open the front door because he'd shut up. I never knew what happened to that cricket, nor any of the others, I assumed they became victims of this spray happy I have to have a perfect lawn lady, no weeds, no bugs....fifteen years of that is what I blame on the decline of the bees around here (and crickets). Anyway, so I go out to get the crickets and the saleslady says to me you know you can put crickets in your yard but that doesn't mean they'll stay.....to which I replied I had thought the birds would get them anyway. She said pet store crickets don't multiple, they do something to them at the manufacture so pet store owners aren't flooded with breeding crickets, plus they don't want the pet stores to breed them otherwise they wouldn't buy them. So with that understanding I figured at least I'd have some around for a bit. I bought sixty crickets for ten bucks. I brought them home and scattered them around the yard, especially in the wood area where they like to hang out according to a little research I did on them. They pretty much stayed rather close by last summer and it was like music to my ears. Sure beat police, fire and ambulance sirens. I told someone I had bought crickets and they were like that's the worse thing you can do. They can get into your house and create problems, they attract spiders because they are natural predators to each other, etc., etc., then I said that may explain why there's such a spider explosion around my house. You couldn't walk around my house without seeing some spider or another at night webbing his way around. I had so many spider web formations I'd leave them so my grand kids could scope out the different types of webbing. (Leaving gardening shoes on the back porch was a big no no unless you wanted to find them with a funnel looking web inside) I said well since I put them out in the wood area then maybe the spiders will leave me house and go out looking for the crickets....that seemed to work since the spider population died down. Then this spring came, no crickets. I figured they all died off. Then summer came and no crickets so I assumed the lady was right, they'd all died in the winter and there's no population because they can't multiply. I was out watering my flowers the other night and my grand son says to me, listen to the crickets grandma.....I guess I convinced myself pretty good they were gone I stopped listening for them. All around us all I could hear was crickets! As a matter of fact I can even hear them right now as I am writing this chirping away through the window, lots of them, and it's still music to my ears. Maybe what the distributor uses is only temporary, I don't know but they are out there.
haha! wow now that is a cricket story! I love the sound of them at night too, and of course Jack loves to eat them so everyone is happy. I've never heard of anyone buying crickets to put on their lawn, that's an interesting first!
It's the inner city....there are no grasshoppers at all and butterflies are so rare if you see one you find yourself in awe of it.
howdy this fine day sunlit7! I hope things are going well for you. can you tell me what city or do you like to stay pretty anonymous?
I am from Grand Rapids MI, I don't mind that as much, anyone wishing to find out anything more than that would have to work pretty hard at hacking someone's exact location. When our local news station went from using Disqus comment board to FB everyone had to sign in under their real name. I won't do that anymore, one night on a discussion about illegal immigration someone looked up under the property records my name, posted a picture of my house and address and encouraged people to come demonstrate outside. I had to call the news station and have them remove it. Now I have a fake FB account to go on their site with, no more of that crap for me.
howdy again sunlit7! wow that is some scary stuff. At least you aren't going to be using a real fb account again, smart move!
I still have my old FB account, I just don't use it to blog on comment sections. As a matter of fact I used it the other night on here when someone said that FB was banning search results for marijuana, if you link something up using your FB account it will sometimes go to your homepage...so I used my Quite Frankly account. I couldn't believe the news lets me post under that name knowing it's not a real name....I wasn't worried though, if they'd banned it I would have went in under Quite, Frank. lol.
haha! sunlit7 what do you think facebook is trying to do these days? I thought they said they were going to stop gathering and selling people's personal information?