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October 01, 2005

candy corn

Everywhere in the house I find cricket carcasses. Spike is proving to be a fine hunter, at least in the insect world. This is the time of year where suddenly crickets seem to be taking over, and perhaps because we are on a lake we have in our house a considerable number of a certain kind of mutant cricket called a camel cricket. Camel crickets have huge, jointed legs, so they are able to leap tall buildings at a single bound, and long, fine antennae. The big ones are about an inch long, and creep me out like mad. They are the perfect Halloween bug--forget spiders, who at least serve a purpose, but even they stay away from camel crickets. Last fall I tried feeding one to Argo, who refused to even come out of his little fake-cave shelter until I took the thing out again.

The other day when I got home from work I discovered the kitchen was overrun with ants--tiny "sugar" ants all over the counters. "They're looking for water," I told Herself, who replied, "Well give them some!" Yes, just put down a saucer of water for them, then gather them up when they come to drink and redistribute them into the yard. A nice thought, though that's not what happened.

The days have been dry and sun filled and it's cool at night now. Good sleeping weather. October is my favorite, favorite, favorite month of the year. I was born in October, married in October, my favorite holiday is in October. It's a scary time, and that's okay. In two weeks I will be fifty. Fifty!

Posted by JudyLa at 06:00 AM | Comments (0)