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“Yea, Lord, we greet thee Born this happy morning… Son of the Father…
Now in flesh appearing.
Oh come, let us adore him…
Christ the Lord.”

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Cricket Haven & Countdown to “LOST” Season…

I mentioned to you in the last post that we had been having some noisy visitors during the fall season every year.  You were probably thinking two-legged characters — called people, but, no, you’d be wrong.  What I was referring to were creatures of the multi-legged kind.  Roaches you may think?!!  Heaven to betsy — NO!!  They could be cousins, because they kind of resemble each other.

I don’t tolerate roaches!  The trick to keeping them at bay is to keep from having crumbs and food debris all over.  Starve them out.  They won’t have any fodder to feed on.

I have to tell you about a little situation that happened to me a few years back — when visiting a supposedly upscale kind of “health food store”.  I was paying for some yogurt to go when what should come crawling by, but a roach on the counter.  There were other people there too, when the clerk said, “Oh these are German roaches.” Like it was a fancy “Beemer” or Mercedes.  All I could think was — ‘a roach is roach is a roach!’  I never patronized that place again.

Getting back to what I was referring to initially — multi-legged critters — which are called Crickets — used to invade this humble abode — thinking this was the Cricket Haven Hotel Resort.

I like to hear crickets when they’re outside making their distinct chirps in the summer time, but when these critters are right in your room it turns into very annoying noise.  Something needed to be done.   I had to take some drastic measures called weatherstripping.  (Actually, several pieces of plastic bags braided together and stuffed in the bottom of the door — every evening during the colder season.  It does double duty as caulking for the door from cold air while it’s actually stopping these unwanted pests.)

But the strange thing is that the pesky little visitors have started disappearing all winter long for the past two years.   Although, this fall a few baby ones were attempting to get in, and one actually got in after I got a bit cocky and left the front door open.  However, it disappeared into the ether — haven’t heard hide nor hair from it since. I think they discovered some better digs.

Also, don’t forget to check out my December Calender and my ongoing Countdown to the final season of “LOST”…

Some of December’s Scheduled Holidays…

21st — December Solstice
21st — Humbug Day
21st –  Look on the Bright Side Day
21st –  National Flashlight Day
22nd –  National Date Nut Bread Day – or September 8!?
23rd –  Roots Day
25th — A’ Phabet Day  (as in No “L” Day?)
24th – Christmas Eve
25th — Christmas Day
26th — National Whiner’s Day
27th — National Fruitcake Day
28th — Most Dubious News Stories of the Year Day
31st — New Year’s Eve
31st — Make Up Your Mind Day

Also, why not peruse the…

*Other Holidays List*

And check out…

PREVIOUS CALENDAR DAYS & MONTH(S)

As well as my…

LOST COUNTDOWN!

Wikipedia

LOST Season II Quote …

“JACK: So, before you ran off, I guess you just forgot to mention that you still have a sailboat. Why’d you come back?
DESMOND: [laughing] Do you think I did it on purpose? I was sailing for two and half weeks, bearing due West and making 9 knots. I should have been in Fiji in less than a week. But the first piece of land I saw wasn’t Fiji, was it? No. No, it was here—this, this island. And you know why? Because this is it. This is all there is left. This ocean and this place here. We are stuck in a bloody snow globe. There’s no outside world. There’s no escape. So, just go away, huh. Let me drink.”

LOST, Season II, “Live Together, Die Alone.“, Episode XXIII

(Lostpoedia)

Let the count down BEGIN…

While we’re counting down why not watch an episode…

ABC’s LOST

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