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The dill weed battle

I was making a simple fish recipe for supper and opened my spice cupboard for the salt, etc which the recipe called for. A shadow just left of the paprika and moving toward the dill weed catches my attention and behold a shiny black cricket is caught in the glare of my fluorescent ceiling light.

This is up-close and personal not the sit back in your easy chair and watch the Discovery Channel type of educational encounter. This bug was looking back at me with his tiny beady cricket eyes! It was almost a double-dog dare you stare down!

He quivered and twitched running headlong into the lemon-pepper rebounding against the chili powder, but I was quick too. With moves Jackie Chan would be proud of I pounced on that bug using dill weed as my weapon.

He's a wily character, taking advantage of my fear and loathing by creeping under the spice rack, leaving one twitchy foot exposed. Throwing the spice rack to the kitchen floor and using perfect wrist action I managed to crunch and mangle his left side. The cricket just laid there whimpering and doing the one shoulder, twitchy-chirpy thing until the dill weed struck again leaving him in smaller parts and pieces - and well on his way to that great bait shop in the sky.

Days later, in the dark, far cabinet corners and stuck under the spice rack, there are small reminders of the cataclysmic meeting of a cricket, the dill weed, and me.

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