I mentioned how I'd had a little friend in the corner of my bathroom named Suzy Spider, and after cleaning my bathroom she up and disappeared. Not to fear; there's another spider who's looking to take her place ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I noticed a little spider had built a web in the corner of my bathroom on the floor, near my toilet. Given the proximity, I would see the spider several times a day. I gave her the name Suzy. Much of the time, Suzy would hang out on the web, occasionally crawling back to the corner and curling up, possibly to sleep. The web never ( Read more... )

Dad got rid of the spider that had been building webs on the side of the deck, but "got rid of" appears to have meant "relocated elsewhere in the backyard." Within days the spider was back and building more webs, this time over the flower basket on the far side of the lattice. It's been kind of pretty, too, as with all the rain over the weekend, ( Read more... )

I wrote about our large spider friend and his penchant for building webs in an inappropriate spot on Tuesday. Shortly after that, I went down for breakfast and looked out the window, and sure enough, there he was, hanging in the air. He'd built another web. I thought about getting a picture but let it go. Yesterday morning, it wasn't as obvious, ( Read more... )

Sunday morning, I'm looking out the kitchen window and I see something weird. Is there an odd glare coming off the neighbors' house? There was sort of a light color appearing in the air. We do get glare in the morning, but this was an odd shape. Further inspection revealed a gigantic spiderweb hanging off our fuchsia plant, basically blocking one ( Read more... )

The animals have been amusing us and taking our minds off things lately ( Read more... )

No, this isn't a story about deception. It's a story about spiders. Stupid, stupid spiders. Though I suppose it could be just one spider. It's not like I asked its name or anything ( Read more... )

It was one of those mornings ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Surprise Thursday! Oh boy ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week for the creatures in and outside the house ( Read more... )