I just had a dreadful, horrible, heart-stopping experience and I'm still shaking. When I walked into the study just now, I found an huge, enormous, gigantic spider sitting there under the chair just looking at me. Tried to get it with a magazine, it skittered away--and this thing was fast!--behind the bookcase. I got the Raid, sprayed into the gap, and fervently HOPE I got him. I HATE THOSE THINGS!
However--living here in the woods, more or less, guess we have to share space with them.
Enjoyed seeing Mary Jane H. yesterday. We were going to meet at Panini Bay, but she called me to say she was there (early) and it was closed. Changed it to Debra's Dreamboat (or something) at the Tuckerton Emporium. We both had the crab cake platter, which Debra herself recommended as appropriate for Weight Watchers: Excellent, no-filler crab cakes, arugala salad, and steamed vegetables.
Mary Jane and I hadn't seen each other for a year or so, but easily fell back into the roles of women who have a lot in common in the husband/children and "moved to Ocean County" sense. We stayed talking at the restaurant until almost 2:00, then she came over to the house and we did the same until she left after 4:00.
We go up to Fort Dix today at 1:00 to see Pat's primary for no reason whatever; nothing is new and Dr. S. won't do anything but go through the motiions. It's okay, though, because it's a nice day for a drive...
A nice day?! That's what revives the spiders around here, ugh, ugh, ugh! Okay, my Raid's handy, right on the desk, and I'm ready for um! However--if I don't post tomorrow, you know I was too slow with the spray and they got me...
5 comments:
Rosemary,
We had lots of little spiders when this place was built. It's on sand and I guess they like it here. The little ones don't bother me tooo much, but when I've seen that big black one like you did.....oh my God. Over the 8 yrs we've been here they seem to be diminishing. Maybe I bumped off the fertile ones. Then as you say....this warm weather may rejuvenate the whole family.
Rosemary I take a kleenex and lightly sqeeze it and put them outside. I will kill black ants and creatures that that that takes over the place. I can't say I have never killed a spider, I'm sure I have but it was an accident.
Dee, my friend, Susan, also never kills spiders--neither does my older son, Patrick (he was a socialist). I'm not sure if, in Susan's case, she's vaguely following the old story about the spider spinning a web over Christ's tomb so his enemies couldn't find it--what is your rationale?
Actually I have no rationale for not killing spider. I do not like to kill any bug, creature that does no to anyone. I did not know about the story of a spider spinng a web over Christ's tomb.
Rosemary I had to laugh about you going to the water closet. This is the truth, I worked with a women who was about 20 yrs my Senior. She would ask for a break, she had to go to the WC. It took me weeks until I finally asked someone what was a water closet. Sixty yrs old and never heard that expression.
I wanted to congratulat you on your 2.5 lbs, keep going girl
I'm happy to see that your Dramamine worked. I'm like you, I have trouble falling asleep. I've heard of using Dramamine but I found a sleeping aid from Wal-mart that is fabulous and cheap. 3.69 for 32 gel-caps. It keep me asleep all night excep for visits to the bathroom.
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