Jun 24, 2009 23:24
My back room is pretty stuffy so I was about to put the screen down when I noted a HUGE spider resting peacefully on his web on the outside of the window. At first I said EWWW and wanted it dead. Then it started to scurry away and I thought I scared it, but it was actually running to a bug that was caught on the edges of the web. I sat at the sill and watched it wrap up the bug, slide back down to the center of the web and wrap it up some more. It was disgusting and graphic and beautiful. The web looked in dire need of repairs, with gaping holes. I thought, wow, if I were a spider I wouldn't be caught dead in such a half-assed web. Despite the aesthetics, however, it was fully functional. He caught two flies as I saw there watching in awe and slight horror that was slowly dissipating.
Then I noticed to passer-bys I was just staring out my window in a bra and shorts. So Frank lives and kills and the screen can wait.