Cricket Invasion

When they said "Everything's Bigger in Texas" they weren't kidding! Earlier this year, Floresville (where I work) was infested with these large ,black, stink beetles. The beetles are finally gone and now we're overrun with crickets. San Antonio has an annual cricket season from June to August. Last year there weren't very many at all because the extremely hot and dry weather killed all the cricket larva. On average, hundreds of thousands of cricket eggs are laid every year with only 25% actually surviving and becoming new crickets. We have been blessed with lots of rain and much cooler temperatures this summer (we haven't hit 100 degrees at all!). Unfortunately that means that instead of a fourth of the eggs hatching, we had somewhere between 70% and 80% of the eggs hatch this year. There are crickets EVERYWHERE. It's so disgusting here at work. In the pictures below you can see crickets piled up outside our building and in the parking lot. We've sprayed numerous times and even though they die, more hatch everyday so we can't stop them. It's horrible. I hope the season ends soon!

First of Many Home Projects

We are still working on slowly moving in to our new home. We decided to do some minor construction/renovation projects prior to moving in. The first thing I noticed about our kitchen is that the cabinets, although nice and fairly new, did not have handles. It looked unfinished and, well, not to Williams standards. I purchased some very nice brushed nickel handles on Amazon.com for approximately 1.00 each and Ricky completed their installation this week. I completed the cleaning and painting of most of the baseboards (thanks Christina and Norma for your help). We have also packed up and moved our guest bathroom over to the new house. I am working on packing up the guest bedroom and unused kitchen products this week. Our new fridge was purchased today and we are in the process of getting our new, grown up king sized bed! So many new, wonderful changes.

**Ricky has since installed handles on the drawers too!**