Sunday, October 11, 2009
Butterfly Pavilion
Here are some picture from our adventure to the Butterfly Pavilion in Denver. We went for Kendal's (niece) third birthday!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Spider of Unusual Size
Let me begin with this. Spiders do not ordinarily affect me. However......
Sunday afternoon I went to get Saturday's mail. I noticed a V-E-R-Y large spider on the porch. Ordinarily I would simply walk by a spider and silently thank if for taking care of the other bugs. Not this day. I dared to get close enough to take a photo (which soooo does not do it justice) and text it to Jim. Meanwhile I stared at it from a safe distance while trying to examine it.
As I walk to the mailbox this is what is going through my head.
Is that an egg sack? If I step on it will a million little babies come running out at me? This happened to my aunt and she got a ton of little spider bites. Is that it's body? Will it crunch if I squish it? Will I feel it through the sole of my shoe? Will it really die??
At this point I remember that I have some spider killer in the garage with an 18" hose attached. I promptly being spraying this spider with surely 100x a lethal dose. Nada. It sat there and then....... it flipped onto its back and began sliding towards my front door. Yes, while on its back - which freaked me out and then began hoisting itself up to the ceiling of my porch. I ran inside.
From the safety of the inside of my home I watched this spider hang and presumably writhe in pain tyring to not die. For over 10 minutes I watched this spider hang there. Finally, thinking about the fact I could never go out my front door again to meet UPS, FedEx, or visitors with this spider there I did the only thing any normal person would do. I went and got my neighbor and his wife to take care of the problem.
I described the spider as humongous and his wife knew exactly what I was talking about. Apparently this spider eats bees. For that I will love it .... but not on my front porch or, quite frankly, from anywhere that I can see it. My wonderful neighbor came and rescued the spider, and me, washed off the killing agent and released him into his yard. God bless wonderful neighbors!
Sunday afternoon I went to get Saturday's mail. I noticed a V-E-R-Y large spider on the porch. Ordinarily I would simply walk by a spider and silently thank if for taking care of the other bugs. Not this day. I dared to get close enough to take a photo (which soooo does not do it justice) and text it to Jim. Meanwhile I stared at it from a safe distance while trying to examine it.
As I walk to the mailbox this is what is going through my head.
Is that an egg sack? If I step on it will a million little babies come running out at me? This happened to my aunt and she got a ton of little spider bites. Is that it's body? Will it crunch if I squish it? Will I feel it through the sole of my shoe? Will it really die??
At this point I remember that I have some spider killer in the garage with an 18" hose attached. I promptly being spraying this spider with surely 100x a lethal dose. Nada. It sat there and then....... it flipped onto its back and began sliding towards my front door. Yes, while on its back - which freaked me out and then began hoisting itself up to the ceiling of my porch. I ran inside.
From the safety of the inside of my home I watched this spider hang and presumably writhe in pain tyring to not die. For over 10 minutes I watched this spider hang there. Finally, thinking about the fact I could never go out my front door again to meet UPS, FedEx, or visitors with this spider there I did the only thing any normal person would do. I went and got my neighbor and his wife to take care of the problem.
I described the spider as humongous and his wife knew exactly what I was talking about. Apparently this spider eats bees. For that I will love it .... but not on my front porch or, quite frankly, from anywhere that I can see it. My wonderful neighbor came and rescued the spider, and me, washed off the killing agent and released him into his yard. God bless wonderful neighbors!
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