Friday, August 15, 2008

There was a HUGE spider........................

I was fixing lunch on Wednesday ( blt's with fresh tomatoes from the garden....yum! ), when I hear this coming from the vicinity of Countrychicks bathroom..........mom.....mom.....Mom........MOM..........MOTHER THERE IS A HUGE SPIDER IN THE BATHROOM! Countrychick does not like spiders. Let me repeat that.......Countrychick DOES NOT LIKE SPIDERS! So I stop what I am doing and head for the bathroom............Where is this HUGE spider I ask Countrychick..........she points to the baseboard. I started laughing................then grabbed my camera. I kept on laughing while I snapped a few photos. Countrychick was now giving me the "evil" eye because I was laughing at her..............This is a photo of the HUGE spider. ( he is not so huge......just a little tiny thing. ) Now I don't really care for spiders, but I'm not afraid of them. I told Countrychick to grab a napkin from the kitchen and bring it to me. She grabbed the napkin and tossed it at me through the door. She was not going back into the bathroom until the spider was gone. I gently picked up the little........oh, HUGE spider and proceeded to head for the backdoor of the house. The Spider had other ideas and started running up my arm...........Countrychick started going.........Eeewwww, EEeeeewwwww, EEEEEWWWWWW............Yiiiiiikkkkkeeees, GROSS MOM......how can you touch that thing!!!!!! We finally made it out the backdoor and onto the back steps. The spider was done riding around on my arm...........he hopped off my arm and onto the wood. He was a happy spider........................... The HUGE Spider was free of the indoors.........free to romp and play with other spiders just like him. Countrychick did a complete check of the bathroom for fear that there were other HUGE spiders just lurking and waiting to get her. ( We will get her some therapy for her arachnophobia one of these days............) Until then, mom will be the official "spider getter" in the house.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I seem to recall a particular incident that involved a friend of mine who was preparing her daughter's room for some company; while vacuuming her daughters room she encounters a VERY LARGE Black Widow!! She screamed and grabbed her daughter's shoe and called her SON into the room to VERIFY if it truly was a Black Widow?? His reply was and I quote " Yep it's a Widder alright!"

DesertHen said...

Aaahhhh....I had forgotten about that particular spider incident. Thanks for jogging my memory. I still don't like "Widders", but I'm no longer afraid of them...........That "Widder" had no right to be living in the heater vent either!! Creepy thing that it was......Okay, so I won't laugh at Countrychick next time.....Not!