how I know it's spring

[rm]

I just had to chase a GIANT fly out of our bedroom. The cats are hopefully eating it right now. And I need to go buy screens. Egads that was awful.

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[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can send my GIANT spiders your way to eat your GIANT flies.

It's a win-win.

I win.

And I win.

I don't see the downside.

:)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Despite the logic of that and the goodness of spiders, Patty is really freaked out by them, so they are not allowed.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Spiders don't generally bother me, but when I moved into the suburbs and I saw the OMGDON'TEATME sized ones, I changed my tune a little.

Scary.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Don't go to Australia. Size of your head spiders, just hanging out on tree trunks on the equivalent of Park Avenue in New York City.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

I just peed myself.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It was really intense. Not because they were scary, but I don't think of spiders as animals that have lives I'm aware of. They do their bug thing at their bug level and I don't need to know. But these were like way on our terms and in our space.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

See that's sort of how I feel. Yeah, I mean the big ones here are still small by comparison and it's more of a city vs. suburban thing for me.

But having them in your face like that would squick me out BIG TIME!!!

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

omg, that's just wrong. I prefer the lysol/bic death by flamethrower method of killing spiders.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Hey, let's hear a little arachnid love in here!



Three cheers for eight-leggedy beasties. (Jezebel, pictured above, didn't eat flies as a rule -- crickets and cicadas were more her speed -- but I'm sure she would happily have chomped 'em if I'd bothered to catch 'em for her.)

[cookie-cm.livejournal.com]

I once unleashed an entire can of Easy Off on a H-U-G-E creaure in my bathroom. Scary thing was, 'it' wasn't dying, seemed so unnatural how it kept..crawling. I had to go to work & then had awake/nightmares the entire day of returning home only to find 'it'....NOT THERE in the poll of poison.

Luckily it was there, but I had to call a friend to dispose of.

uuuggggg................

Too many bug stories in my experience - never mind the flying cockroach landing on my back while hiking 3,00o ft. in NM...........where were the kittes then, hhmmmm??