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[shawluvsbirds]

Normal crickets and grass hoppers don't bother me. Just the saber tooth cave crickets.
The first house I lived in after I graduated and got married was horribly infested with them. I had never seen one prior to moving into that house. They were terrifying. They would jump on me in the night.
Same house had squirrels living in the attic space.
(I may have already told this story idk)
One time one chewed a hole in the water heater closet ceiling and came inside. It tiptoed across my bare toes while I was sitting on the potty at like. . 4 in the morning
I woke my husband and told him there was a squirrel inside.
He said B S.
About then he heard the commotion when it tried to climb the blinds in the living room.
We chased that thing all over the house.. It went up into the hide a bed sofa. I had a broom and a bucket trying to capture it. He lifted the sofa and it flew out like a rocket and bounced off of me and off it went again.
We finally trapped it back in the bathroom.
We both needed to leave for work by then.. So I called my grandpa to bring over a live trap.
Grandpa got there. .no trap. Pellet gun in hand.
Where's it at? He asked.
It was under the water heater.
"Bring me a chair" he said. .
"It'll come out directly"

I had a nice bloody mess in there when I got home from work that day.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Normal crickets and grass hoppers don't bother me. Just the saber tooth cave crickets.
The first house I lived in after I graduated and got married was horribly infested with them. I had never seen one prior to moving into that house. They were terrifying. They would jump on me in the night.
Same house had squirrels living in the attic space.
(I may have already told this story idk)
One time one chewed a hole in the water heater closet ceiling and came inside. It tiptoed across my bare toes while I was sitting on the potty at like. . 4 in the morning
I woke my husband and told him there was a squirrel inside.
He said B S.
About then he heard the commotion when it tried to climb the blinds in the living room.
We chased that thing all over the house.. It went up into the hide a bed sofa. I had a broom and a bucket trying to capture it. He lifted the sofa and it flew out like a rocket and bounced off of me and off it went again.
We finally trapped it back in the bathroom.
We both needed to leave for work by then.. So I called my grandpa to bring over a live trap.
Grandpa got there. .no trap. Pellet gun in hand.
Where's it at? He asked.
It was under the water heater.
"Bring me a chair" he said. .
"It'll come out directly"

I had a nice bloody mess in there when I got home from work that day.

first off , your gramps was proper level headed folk... and knew simple problems and simple solutions... I suspect he was the ‘live and let live’ type when that was the proper simple solution too... in days past it was all just called ‘makin due’ ... these days it seems folks need to formulate an opinion, then gather feedback from whoever is listening, them do or don’t do something, lol

Second, I think the saber tooth cricket died out at the end of pliocene period... and what we have now is a descendent called a camel cricket... and there is some weird adaptation about their vision that makes them jump at their predator rather than away... which makes them so weird to deal with... I think ... my cricket info come from my sis, but I might be misremembering some part of it...

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not summer, next month. 2 of my older hens have already resumed laying.
I have 11 older hens and I expect most if not all to be laying by February.
I have about 15 pullets between 3 and 3.5 months old and I'll be setting eggs this week and maybe every couple weeks from here on out.

As soon as February 7, day length at this latitude will be an hour longer than today was.
That will kick start egg production.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

As soon as February 7, day length at this latitude will be an hour longer than today was.
That will kick start egg production.

I hope I’m not misremembering... but don’t you have bees also?

I was just wondering how mine are impacted by this near record warmth

 

[SueT]

Low of 50º this morning! It has been so nice having warm weather....

 

[SueT]

Another foraged spice, sumac berries! It is often used in middle eastern recipes. I will grind these up in my little grinder and use some to season red lentil soup. It has a lemony taste.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

first off , your gramps was proper level headed folk... and knew simple problems and simple solutions... I suspect he was the ‘live and let live’ type when that was the proper simple solution too... in days past it was all just called ‘makin due’ ... these days it seems folks need to formulate an opinion, then gather feedback from whoever is listening, them do or don’t do something, lol

Second, I think the saber tooth cricket died out at the end of pliocene period... and what we have now is a descendent called a camel cricket... and there is some weird adaptation about their vision that makes them jump at their predator rather than away... which makes them so weird to deal with... I think ... my cricket info come from my sis, but I might be misremembering some part of it...

Yes! That's part of why they are so terrifying. They always jump at you. And boy howdy can they jump! Usually right at your face too. Or maybe that's just my luck.
If I ever get one stuck in my hair I might vomit and die on the spot.
I don't care whatcha wanna call them. . I hates them. They all need to die.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

And yeah. . I highly doubt that squirrel would've gone in a live trap in the bathroom.
It was all I could think of at the time. Grandpa thought that was pretty funny.
He still occasionally laughs about the day he went squirrel hunting in my bathroom.

 

[SueT]

And yeah. . I highly doubt that squirrel would've gone in a live trap in the bathroom.
It was all I could think of at the time. Grandpa thought that was pretty funny.
He still occasionally laughs about the day he went squirrel hunting in my bathroom.

Mike McGraff, host of 'You Bet Your Garden,' a gardening show on public radio, calls squirrels "servants of satan."

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Mike McGraff, host of 'You Bet Your Garden,' a gardening show on public radio, calls squirrels "servants of satan."

They really are a nuisance!
They're Dang cute but isn't that exactly how Satan works too. .yep servants of Satan. I can see that.