Maura,
Come back to the Initials Only State; you can have my crickets, which at
least are quiet (I think; maybe what I thought were digestive sounds are in
fact the crickets hopping around in the basement). I've been wondering
whether they really are crickets, or whether the Codgers (combined age
approx. 1200) next door just call them that, but there's no way I'm looking
through the Encyclopedia of Bugs to find out. Feh.
Ralph