Cricket

Yesterday morning this good-sized cricket was in the kitchen. I took this picture and then I managed to pick it up and release it outside. I hope it found its family in the back yard. Sometimes I think I've heard crickets in the house, but this one was very quiet. In the summer in Indiana sometimes the crickets make so much noise that you can hardly hear anything else outside.

When I was little I had a green glow-in-the dark plastic figurine that I THINK was Jiminy Cricket. But maybe it was a plastic Planter's Peanut figurine. In any case, this is the first REAL cricket I've gotten to know.