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>> Did you know you can calculate the >> temperature by timing a cricket's chirp? > >>Wow! Are the chirps faster when it's warmer? > >https://www.almanac.com/predict-temperature-cricket-chi >rps > >>Here in the UK we never get crickets (I think?) but >>I've heard them lots at night when we've been in >>Spain. It's amazing the atmosphere it feels like. > >Ah, what a shame. Crickets chirping on a warm night >is so relaxing. Defines a summer night. Until they >all stop suddenly, which can mean that something >wicked this way comes. Coyote, maybe? BTW, crickets >here don't look like the one pictured in the almanac. >More like a cockroach which sends my mom up a tree >when she sees one in the house. A long time ago when >our cat, Matilda, was still a kitten, a cricket took >up station under our gas water heater. Matilda went >after it. She fit under the heater and if it had >fired up while she was under it she would have been >broiled like a tray of garlic bread. Fortunately, I >saw her and pulled her to safety and, reluctantly, >sprayed Raid to kill the cricket. Almost got my >bottom broiled when the heater fired up, vaporized >what remained of the Raid, and stunk up the back porch >for a couple of days. Mom said that after >fluorocarbons were banned as propellants in spray cans >some companies switched to propane which could have >ruined our whole day! Fun times! >>
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