I know a couple of people on my friends list are going to point and laugh (I'm looking at you,
Tina found one in the house, so large that she seriously thought it was some alien bug from Mars or something. She showed it to me, and was perhaps slightly disappointed at my asessment: "It's a cricket," I told her. "Just a cricket."
Of course, "just a cricket" doesn't quite do the things justice. They've been hanging out since the Friday night of Summerland when the albino cricket showed up, and they were there we took
Aside from the one Tina found, they were around when I left the office last night, jumping around just outside the door to the building, urging me to go play with them. I caught another one in the basement while talking to my mother on her birthday. When I was mowing my lawn, they came out in droves, crawling up my legs and bouncing away from the mower.
Again, it's all about figuring out what they're saying.
The translation I have so far leaves a lot to be desired, but I think I have the general gist of what they're telling me.