



Isn't that one so sweet? Mommy and baby (although different species...)



And on the topic of bugs, two days ago I was lying on my bed reading a book on my laptop. I had my head propped up against the headboard, the laptop on my stomach, and I was just reading away. While I was in this peaceful state I noticed that there was a spider between me and my screen. The spider was slowly letting itself down from the ceiling right onto my chest. It really caught me by surprise. I broke the web and the spider just hung there from my hand. I tried to carry the little guy to the window and throw him out but he started to climb up the web toward my hand. I didn't wanna get bit so I dropped the little guy and stepped on him. That's when I realized it wasn't a little guy... it was a little girl cause cause it was a black widow--male black widows can't exist cause widows are girls (are male black widows called "black widowers"?).
So, that was a pretty close one. What was even weirder was the next day I was sitting at my desk and another spider (in my imagination it's the mate of the one I killed (so this was the black widower)) skittered across my desk heading straight for me. I think it was bent on revenge. Luckily I saw him in time and took him out with a well placed karate chop. So, so far it's me: 2 spiders: 0. I'm just gonna have to be careful when I go to sleep...and I'm gonna need to buy some anti-venom.
p.s. I just had another spider attack me. I believe I might have a feud going on with these spiders now. This spider also died from a well placed karate chop. However, this spider was not a black widow. It looks as if they're recruiting outside help. It was a brown spider...perhaps they're outsourcing.
Oh, and this next picture is completely unrelated to anything else in this post, but I thought it was funny (someone just asked me who that's a picture of... Charles Darwin).
6 comments:
You're a ninja-chopping, spider-killing, awesome-dude....with a sword.
Hey Becca!
Thanks for the kind words...and the sword.
No one really asked who that was a picture of, did they? I guess it's cool if it was your five-year-old niece who asked . . .
Dan, someone did ask...and be nice to the public school kids.
My apologies to anyone who came up through the public screwel system.
I would be surprised if the mate of the black widow was after you for revenge. After all, aren't they called black widows because they devour their mates after mating? Maybe he was just coming to thank you for sparing his life, and in an ironic twist you killed him.
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