Spiders

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Val

I HATE spiders – would never kill one,that’s just asking for bad luck. It doesn’t matter what size they are – small, medium, large or gigantic – I hate them.So while pottering in the garden yesterday I went into the shed to look for something and was ambushed by THE most ENORMOUS  Irish “tarantula” ever seen!! Steve tells me it was probably just the ordinary  female garden variety. He wasn’t held hostage by the damn thing! It looked at me and I looked at it. Now I   do have a humane spider catcher, but it was  in the house – not a lot of help. Eventually I decided I couldn’t stay there till Steve came home, so taking my courage in my (thankfully)gloved hands, I tried to coax it on to a spade -difficult to do when you have your eyes screwed up to avoid looking at it. Was I successful? No. It scuttled away and it is WAITING for me.

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2 Responses to Spiders

  1. Eileen Fitzgerald says:
    March 13, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Ahhh , the poor little things, I landscaped the tiny area that is my back garden and there is loads of pebbles and Bark on raised beds. I HAD LOADS AND LOADS of spiders in my back garden and I thought this was weird ( but OK ) until they started to find their way into my house !!!.

    Actually during the summer its chaotic in my back garden.. Terraced house
    Loads of spiders = loads of small birds = loads of neighbors cats stalking out the place, my back garden always seems to have at least two cats in it .. I DO NOT HAVE CATS ..

    I once even found a frog in my back garden ( there is no water there ?)

  2. Val says:
    March 14, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    You must have a friendly looking house and garden.Animals are very clever like that
    usually visit places where they will be welcome. Not sure about the frog! Very strange!

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