Therefore, exercise due caution for all things spider-like.
Posted on 07/14/2016 11:29:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
It is.
*snicker*
I ain’t from around here....
;D
I love spiders.
That’s the last I’d heard as well.
Spiders don’t bother me in the least. Snakes on the other hand ...
Somewhere, someone woke up one day and said “Hey! What if we crossed spiders with goats?”
As weird as I am, I have never entertained such a thought.
:D
This hand, the other hand.
I love snakes, too.
Handfuls of them.
:D
my father was born in 1901....he said if you didn’t know where the cows were, pick up a daddy long legs and one of his legs will point you in the right direction...He lived to be 81 smoked, chewed tobacca rode his first horse bareback as soon as he was big enough to climb the fence and hop on the horses back. Those were the days......you wanted to eat, you worked for the money..
So, should we be expecting the Mother Ship to return for us, anytime soon?
Salamander, I love snakes and spiders too. I usually go rat snake hunting at the creek and river around my house during this time of year. We also have some lovely green, black, and yellow giant spiders that build enormous webs between trees. They can be quite creepy to the uninitiated, but they are really fun to play with and harmless. I often like to catch them and carry them around with me by letting them ride on my bush hat just to get a rise out people on the trains. :)
(We can talk about catching rat snakes in the next related thread that comes up.)
Joro Gumo, otherwise known as one of the many member species of the group of Golden Orb Web spiders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_clavata
As long as the Mother Ship is no larger than my thumbnail, may she return whenever ;)
Nonetheless, spiders are friends in our household.
I don’t have a fear of spiders. They don’t want to eat you.
They want to eat the things that want to eat you.
I have not seen one of those in decades.
My gramma had a huge, beautiful garden spider who lived amongst the grape vines every summer.
No idea what’s become of them.
I had a “pet” wild rat snake who would coil around my ankles as I sat and watched the world go by.
The jerk up the road ran him over, as he warmed himself in my lane.
I miss Slinky.
Not sure how we’ll board *that*.
;D
I’m waiting for them to genetically modify the praying mantis to be about the size of a Great Dane.
And trainable, of course.
For the most part, I can’t stand spiders. But the little jumpers are kind of funny.
I catch tiny spiders on my fingers, and larger spiders get the cup and paper treatment. Either way, they get evicted. My house is a spider-free zone!
And spiders have fear of shoe in their DNA.
Cool thing is, if you muss up a little part of their web they learn where you walk and will move their web higher the next evening to get it out of your way.
You haven't really lived until you are awakened at 0230 by the panicked barking of your purebred Haitian Street Dog outside your bedroom door, walking out to find a Haitian brown tarantula. They got as big as saucers and could vertically jump up to 4 feet. Good times! (Actually, they really were...)
The MK boys (never the girls, for some reason...) loved to keep them as pets.
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