the down side of spring..

[mamita]

I can handle rodents. I can handle snakes. I CANNOT handle spiders, and have seen 3 today. one TOUCHED MY PERSON, so that scream you may have heard was just me. lol




and scream I did/do. like a real girl...loud...robust....SCREAM.


I have spider cooties, I just know it.....


and I'm not talking about the evil smaller ones, which make me shudder. I'm talking about those alien species as big as a small cat for crying out loud.

[simplefarmgirl]

give me a spider any day,,, any type of bug as long as it has leggs,, snakes or anything elses that slithers,,you'll be hearing me scream and doing my famous snake dance,, ya know the one fist clinched,feet to gether jumping up and down,, eyes shut tight so you dont see which way it goes, any usually go that direction also,, dont forget the screaming,, yes there is that,, Everyone hear laughs,, awh gramma saw a snake LOL

[Denise K.]

Give me the spiders!! But take this wind away! We always have wind but in the spring it is worse and blows from a different directions. Went out to barn area this am. My plastic water jugs are all over! My plastic lawn chair has traveled! The storage area for water dishes for the rabbits (they have been there all winter) has scattered dishes all over the place. My sack of recycle cans has broken and now I have several months of cans to retrieve! But the sun is shining

[Calfkeeper]

Spiders I can handle; but please take the nasty invasion of other flying and crawling critters; those wood roaches that folks around here call water bugs, the skeeters, the ticks, the snakes, the wasps...ugh. Where's Pandora when you want revenge? Ha.

[Ravenlost]

Good thing you don't live in Mississippi! We have spiders year round.

[unregistered29228]

I killed a spider near the table today at lunch, shudders! The part I hate most about the weather warming up again is FIRE ANTS. I hate, hate, hate those things!

[soulsurvivor]

DH feeds a collection of huge garden spiders every year that make their webs around our outdoor flowerbeds. Garden spiders are some of the most beneficial critters to have.

I don't care for any bug taking up residence inside. I keep a lot of those sticky bug traps everywhere. It's kinda amazing what ends up getting stuck on those.

[fixer1958]

Spiders really just want to be your friend.

[Ohio dreamer]

Spiders I can live with, but termites!! They creep me out AND give me nightmares!!

[beccachow]

You all do not want to know the size of the wolf spiders I have to battle in the downstairs bathroom. I went to hit one with a shoe, he wrestled it from me and started beating me with it. I was traumatized. Anytime a spider is big enough to stare you down, you are in trouble.

[unregistered29228]

Gosh Becca, I'm going to have nightmares tonight, thinking of those spiders!

[primal1]

I shudder along side you! I had to kill one about a month ago(yes i am still traumatized).
IT was living above my bath and i left it be figuring it wants nothing to do with me either... well like hell!! Showering one morning i am rinsing off and open my eye just in time to see it about 6 inches above my face, darn near killed myself gettin away!
during the same week I am laying in the tub soakin with my eyes closed(will i ever learn??) and yet again open my eye to see it coming down from the cieling directly above my face yet again!
twice was enough for me, it's gone now.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Today has been a beautiful spring day.Me and my 8 yo and 5 year old grandaughters were planting some seeds in the garden,that is until the 8 yo,thought she saw a wasp, and to the house she went. The 5 yo stuck with me. She learned how to sew seeds and the distance that cabbage plants should be spaced and how to plant them with a peg,but the most important thing she learned, was not letting a little wasp keep her from enjoying being outside on a day like this,a day I believe God sent for us to enjoy. Especially after all them record breaking temps He sent last week and I hope He thinks He was maybe a little to rough on us and give us a few more like today. Whatever reason sendum on,them wasps, spiders and snakes are gunna have the worst fight they ever seen, before they send me to the house. lol Eddie

[Ravenlost]

The thing I hate about warm weather is flies! HATE flies! I always hope the spiders will eat all the flies!

[TxCloverAngel]

I hear ya!!
THIS sucker almost made me sell my beloved farm last year!!

[primroselane]

Spring is an alluring and frightening mixture of beauty and violence. It is like having a bi-polar girlfriend.

[primroselane]

Saw a dead rattlesnake lying on the road when I went to the post office today.