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-And other
hazards
Even if the leaves weren’t
beginning to show hints of color,
even if the cattails weren’t ripen
ing, even if the unmistakable fra
grance of freshly-cut silage com
didn’t perfume the air, we would
know anyway.
We would know what time of
the year it is by the invasion.
The “critters” are invading our
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house.
Breakfast was nearly over on a
recent early morning when a
shrill, screeching sound shattered
the quiet of the kitchen.
A cricket? bi the kitchen? Usu
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fall from the basement, after the
first cool night or two sends these
friendly “bugs” in search of a
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mote protected environment.
This noisy one was singing its
heart out from behind the micro
wave oven. As long as I stayed
more than a few feet away, the
shrill calling persisted. Any clos
er, and the cricket sensed my pre
sence and clammed up.
It didn’t really have to worry.
Crickets in the house are supposed
to bring good luck, we’ve always
heard. After the year’s combined
record low milk prices and conti
nuing lack of feed crops, the wel
come mat is out for an invasion of
good-luck-bearing crickets.
Instead, we’ve got one cricket
and an army of at least a thousand
spiders pursuing our innocent sin
ger with booby trap webs. Not
content to weave their snares
behind the microwave, the army
has strung webs all over the house.
One spidery batallion has a
field camp set up behind the door
to the back porch - just in case the
cricket is bold enough to march
through the normal entrances to
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the house.
Hasn’t worked on a cricket yet,
but it occasionally ensnarles one
of us.
A whole brigade lies in wait in
the upper comers of the living
room, with spies stashed in and
around the white ruffled curtains
at the windows. Operations con
trols are from web clusters at
every level of the bookshelf. And
raiding bands haunt the shadows
of the second floor stairway, web
weaving round-the-clock.
While crickets and spiders seek
indoor refuge, some of our more
domesticated species invade with
summer’s-end population
explosions.
Formerly-plump mother cats
have gone slim as they raise nests
of late-season kittens. One chose a
deep hole in a big, round bale, a
cozy hay-cave some cow had
nibbled out, in which to deliver a
litter of three tiny kittens. Another
opted for the wagon shed, where
the wobbly-legged, chubby
bellied babies now peek out shyly
while we bottle-feed our overflow
of heifer babies from the calf
nursery.
The feed room where silage is
run has been taken over by the
second hatch from our lone
mother hen. After losing every
one of her June chicks to a couple
of determined barn cats, she
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promptly laid back on the job.
Wiser this time around, the old
white hen corrals her eight fluffy
babies (seven black and one
cream-colored) where there is
feed in abundance and no tall
weeds for cat cover. She also has
enlisted the parenting protection
of the big, old rooster, who would
gleefully peck a hunk of fur from
the head of any cat, given an
opportunity.
And after repeated settings on
fruitless eggs, one guinea hen has
finally managed to produce and
raise one brown-speckled offspr
ing. It’s as swift and elusive as a
baby pheasant, which it resembles
except for larger size, and we only
get glimpses of it occasionally.
Waning summer spurs a rush to
get things done, including perpe
tuation of the species by critters
hunting mates and homes. Appa
rently the microwave cricket
found neither. Next morning it
was meandering around a couple
of dishes left in the kitchen sink. I
put the leggy, black insect back
outside and headed downstairs for
my bam shoes.
The shrill screeching sound of a
cricket greeted me - in the
basement.
It must have sneaked right back
inside. Probably with all the mice
coming home from their
vacations.
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