Mid-Week Linkage
You may recall my post last summer about the giant writing spiders in my backyard. They haven't appeared this year yet, but stay tuned - I've found a few small webs in the garden but haven't seen the arachnids. But we had a spider scare of another kind the other night when my daughter tried to go out the back door to get something from her car. I saw her open the door, then she slammed it and turned around pale as a ghost. "Mama! There's a huge web covering the door! And there's a spider in it and it's eating something!"
Needless to say, that got my attention, and while I'm not usually scared of spiders, I wasn't sure if this was going to be a black widow or something that might jump on me. My husband was asleep, and my daughter was screaming "Kill it!" LOL ~ So I got our big golf umbrella and brandished it like a sword, then slowly opened the door. And it really was a huge web - I wish I had taken a picture of it, but we were sort of hysterical. My reaction was: "Oh My God, it's one of Aragog's Children and they are eating Frodo!!!" (Yes, it was a cross-fandom reaction). Because the spider was indeed just doing it's own spidery thing and wrapping up an insect (probably a lightning bug or something) into a little cocoon. At this point I made my youngest son come and look at it, and I'm not sure why because it was enough to give someone a nightmare. Anyway, this spider was big and blackish, but not a black widow, so I started tearing down the web with my umbrella, and the spider just swung itself over to the door. Then my older son came in and stared at this very large spider clinging to the back door and his own terse reaction was "No Freakin' Way!"
I didn't really want to leave it so it would build another web the next day, so I killed it with the fly swatter before it could disappear into the garage. I sort of regretted it because of all the moths and mosquitoes it might have killed just in one night, but we couldn't co-exist.
You just never know what's going to hit you in the face as you go out the door ~ be careful out there!
But this first link reminded me of what happened:
German Woman Loses "Spider Shock" Court Case
Several Oceanic mysteries going on right now:
Floating Blob near Alaskan Coast Identified
Giant Squid Swarming Southern California Coastline
And two Snake Stories from Florida:
Pygmy Rattler Strikes Again at Florida Walmart
Python Posse Goes A-Huntin' in the Everglades
The Teaser Trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is out. I didn't see Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, but there are some awesome scenes. Love the Cheshire Cat!
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