Sun, 04 Oct 2009

Spiders
If there is a "season" for spiders, we've been in it for a while. If you look very closely, you can see the spider and its web in this photo. I had one spider build its web from a flower box on my front porch to my front door. Fortunately for the spider, the web had enough stretch in it to withstand the door opening and closing. It only took a couple of "trips" on the moving web for the spider to find a new location. I also had a spider build a web all the way across my front porch steps. I had to destroy it to get off the porch. My favorite this year was a spider I started to call "Charolette" after the children's book "Charolette's Web". I read that book several times as a girl. Anyway, Charolette (I think I've missed spelled the name, my apologies) took up residence on my driver side rearview mirror on the outside of my car. Every morning, I'd get in the car and start driving and Charolette would hold on for dear life until I'd come to a stop and the spider could scurry to safety inside the mirror casing. This went on for several days. The spider would make the 60 mile round trip to and from my yarn shop with me. One day last week, it abandoned ship somewhere along the way. I'm sure it found a much more stable home.


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