Thursday, August 19, 2010
We still have a little work to do on our backyard today, so the (halfway) finished project will come around later tonight. But we did find a few unwelcome little guests in our backyard.
I should say, Dan and my dad encountered a few of these guys. I was cowering in a corner and avoiding them at all cost. Apparently, they are fairly common garden spiders that are harmless to humans, but I have never seen a spider so large in person. And I hope to never see one again.
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3 comments:
We had TWO! of those when we moved in. Actually, the day of the showing, we came back a second time and one had built a web across the pathway to the front door. I literally walked around the giant planter boxes that took up the whole front yard to get to the door. My husband killed one, I think, but the other bugger has held on for THREE YEARS and makes his terrifying appearance every once in a while, when you least expect it. It's one of the reasons I refrain from letting our toddler play in our quasi-functional yard. Other than the giant bramble bushes, weeds, mud, broken concrete, and the fact that it's a giant slope butting up against a busy street. But the spider seals the deal.
My kids found one of those once on a huge web. That thing looked like it could eat us! It is a common garden spider, but I had never seen one before. I hate spiders too...really freaked me out!
Oh I hate the garden spiders. We had a ton of them last summer, just one this year. So scary. And I used to be scared of teeny-tiny ones in MI!
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