Especially since I’ve been meaning to head to Technorati to claim this blog, but I found one of those buggers in my “music room” the other night…
A pregnant female brown recluse.
Grant: not a word out of you mate.
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A Meandering Scholar
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Unleash the spiders is such a horrid term for an arachnophobe
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- Wednesday, 18 Jun e 2008 - 14:11 UTC
Last updated: Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 - 14:11 UTC
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Mmm, fantastic diffraction patterns in them there leg muscles.
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Maxine unleashes her inner geek.
In a Big Way
:p
Yes, that was pretty unfettered, that comment, wasn’t it? Almost as good as Richard’s.
yes, I recognize it from the balcony last Sunday… shudder I really don’t understand where they all come from but the last week has left me with several baby spiders in my shoes/sandals and a tonne of them on the balcony.
You need to look for more of the in the music room… you know, they come in legio – not alone
That’s why I have three cats. They may sacrifice themselves to save me.
Do you two live in the same house, then? (I don’t include any of the cats in that question. Or the spiders.)
At the Maison Des Girrafes, spiders are our friends. We hesitate to clean up too many cobwebs, in the hope that the spiders will catch the flies. The spiders have been pretty hopeless at this, however, so we got a couple of these —
An insectivorous plant, yesterday
which judging from their health and vigor, are doing a far better job (though we haven’t actually caught them in the insectivorous act)
Well if I were a spider, I would find that very inviting, Henry!
@Maxine: No, but we only live a few blocks apart on the charmingly named “Mud Island”.
@Henry: I remember, as a boy, watching my poor venus flytrap starve to death cos it was wee and the flies weren’t. Poor little thing. I remember trying to feed it bits of minced beef stolen from the kitchen
:’( sniff