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Cicadas in the morning

Sunday, June 30, 2024

I generally include a picture with my blog posts but I find cicadas and locusts kinda gross so I’ll spare you. 

I guess I could have put a picture of a morning up but my guess is you know what a morning looks like… or maybe you don’t. A lot of people are not “morning people”. I’ve been a morning person for a long time. 

But that’s not why I called. 

I called to talk about how the sound of cicadas is drowning out the birds this morning. 

Usually at 6 am the only sounds I hear from outside are birds chirping but this morning it’s all about the cicadas. Strange phenomena. 

I believe it’s a combo of a bigger cicada population this year along with extreme heat. 

In any case, it’s weird to hear them so early in the morning.

I read an article that said the cicadas wouldn’t be around much past July 4th and that’s fine with me bc the song they sing is not my favorite. I wouldn’t even call it a song really. Idk what it is. Like a rattlesnake on steroids. 

Happy Summer of the Cicadas. 

Nick Druga II