Just got home and am having a quick lunch. No time to write, so I’ll leave you with a short video from the Easter Egg Hunt in our very weedy, unfinished backyard.
I guess it’s also a good time to put up a post from my old blog. Ta ta for now! 
*Shudder*
Yesterday I was pulling out a couple of boxes of books from the game closet and behind them I saw this GIANT spider. I couldn’t tell if it was dead or just poised to leap out at me. Well, I gave it long enough to move if it was alive, while I was going through the books for donation. When I have decided that it was indeed dead, I got brave enough to scoop it up on a dustpan. I couldn’t help having a really close look at the creature, which gave me some strong shivers. I had to kill some of these giants before and I could never get a close look since they seem to run faster than my first car did. And once they were killed, all there was left to see was some leg fragments in a gooey mass. You see, I had to make sure I really stomped hard on them and then, for extra assurance, drag my foot on the ground too. I didn’t want the freaky looking thing to just push my foot off itself, grab it and fling me down. It totally looked like it could do that! I was hoping these big ones don’t come in the house, since the only place I found them before was the garage. Although, there was that one time after we have just replaced the carpet that I had the misfortune of running into one in the hallway. You see, I was just going to my bedroom, and I didn’t bother to turn the hallway light on, since there was enough light coming in from the kitchen. I just happened to see from the corner of my eye something on the ground that looked like some of that black furry yarn I was using to knit a scarf. I automatically bent down to pick it, as my brain was screaming ‘Stop! It can’t be yarn, you just finished vacuuming!!!’ So I straightened up and turned the light on. I was horrified to see that it was a giant spider. I just stood there frozen, thinking, this thing would have REALLY loved for me to pick it up, right? We would’ve just bonded and become such good buds, he would’ve started to pick ME up, just for laughs. I had no clue what to do next. My way of disposing of this kind of spider would not have work so well on my new carpet. The way I kill spiders in the house is by swooping down on them with a paper towel, pick’em up and squish them in the paper towel while doing a stomping dance, feeling totally violated. Sometimes I also apologize to the poor creatures for not being willing to share my house. But, it IS my house, after all… Well, anyway, assuming that I could get close enough to the spider, without making it bolt full speed into the kids’ bedroom, I would need something bigger than a paper towel, maybe a pillowcase and both hands to scoop it off the floor. I was not willing to try that, so I went for reinforcements. I brought Mike over to ask what he would recommend, while I was telling him about the amazing speed of these things and how I didn’t want to have to wash spider guts off my new carpet. He wasn’t saying anything, so I looked up at him to see this revolted, yet incredulous look on his face. Well, so much for help from him! Actually, he snapped out of his shock and saved the day. He got an Ikea catalog and I was thinking you’ll never get close enough to use that as a club and even if you do, there is still the carpet to think about. Well, he never went any closer, he just threw the catalog on top of the spider from about four feet away. I stood there, expecting to see the catalog start to crawl away. I was thinking the spider’s gotta be REALLY pissed now, he’ll just toss the catalog off and totally come for us. Mike went to check and the spider was just stunned, no gooey mess, so he picked it up with a paper towel and flushed. And all I could think was ‘you should’ve squished it first’, ‘do spiders swim?’, ‘he could come back or is that rats that could crawl right out of the toilets?’ Let me tell you, it took a long time to get back to feeling normal! *shudder*
