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Xeno,
I can't stand cockroaches, either. They totally gross me out especially when I can see their eyes. I'll leave the spider loving up to you though, mm-k?
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 21, 2005 at 4:24 PM
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this is the real Xeno-x
spiders don't bother me.
cockroaches do -- they give me the chills.
when i lived on the farm (around 19 yrs old) I used to sit in the barnloft and watch the workings and web weavings of a huge spider (about ten times the size of yours), with a body as thick as my thumb, and big, fat, hairy legs.
It's like anything else -- snakes and like that -- once you understand them, you get used to them and you might even come to love them.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 21, 2005 at 2:27 PM
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Koriani,
It's nice that you have an understanding with them. I don't like killing anything and in all truth, I don't kill all of them. If I CAN, I will release them outside. In fact, FTR, I have acutally trapped a few in a jar, drove them down the street and released them into a field. But see, if I revealed that to everyone, my recent posts about them wouldn't be what they are.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2005 at 2:58 PM
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Kooka, K, scratch that comment from me to him and
insert YOUR name to it!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2005 at 2:55 PM
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Xeno-x, well, now at least I know who to call
when Mr. Spitfire isn't around to handle them.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2005 at 2:54 PM
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Mark, you're just rotten. ROTTEN!
M is gonna love this one. (He digs your pics.) However, now I'm not sharing my happy shrooms with you. At least not anymore. You're too cruel.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 18, 2005 at 2:53 PM
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We have an understanding in our house...
they don't mess with me and I won't mess with them. And they run for cover when my husband is home cuz they don't have the same understanding with him! That's a whole nother round of negotiations...
posted by
koriani
on September 18, 2005 at 6:44 AM
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Whoops
That last comment was not from Xeno_x. I must have slipped and logged in as him. I have his log in saved for when he is out here visiting.
But that whole last comment was mine, not the old man's.
posted by
kooka_lives
on September 17, 2005 at 6:59 PM
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What's the big deal?
It was just a harmless spider. My wife over reacts to spider as well. So far I have gotten her to jump a good half dozen times with fake spider. She calls the smallest of them big. She will drag me out of bed or have me stop whatever I am doing to take care of them. I figure they are doing o harm, so I just put them back outside. This house has always had a spider problem, but they have never done any harm.
It was just a simple spider. Live and let live girl.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 17, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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This arachnaphobia is out of control ~
~ You're starting to hallucinate about these guys.
So, what are you taking and where can I get some?
posted by
mark2556
on September 17, 2005 at 4:55 PM
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Quirks,
I'd never think you'd "copy" me! I gotta go check yours out!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:39 PM
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Spitfire--
LOLOL!! It seems we both have conversations with spiders. You are so going to think I copied you, because I just posted my own little spidey tale this afternoon...but I swear I had not read this yet. I'm hearing Twilight Zone music in my head, are you? BTW, your post was funnier than mine.
posted by
Julia.
on September 17, 2005 at 4:23 PM
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Rabbit,
I totally hear ya! Just keep em away from me and I'm happy. Outa sight outa mind!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:21 PM
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JJ, I've heard a little of the Spanni hip-hop. Not by choice, mind you,
but cause sometimes my kennel guy listens to it and cause there are so many "Spanni's" in my neck of the woods!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:16 PM
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Temple, well thanks to you and your firm for the thumbs up.
Btw, this particular spider was actually called a Huntsman spider. (We researched it.) They don't make webs. They actually hunt their prey. However, they DO bite but are not poisonous to humans. Animals I'm not sure about. Can't be too carefull, though.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:10 PM
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Schatz, I feel your pain. I have many Black Widows around my
house, too. They scare me cause of the dogs, even though my dogs weigh as much as I do. I kept one of them that I caught as a pet. I named her Ezmirelda and kept her in a big glass jar and fed her every day.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:06 PM
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Adaman, K, I won't tell anyone.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:04 PM
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Lensman,
K, we can have a beer together but it's gonna be out on the front lawn cause I think the spiders are having a party tonight.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:03 PM
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Oh, and Hemlocker, I know many aren't poisonous, but these
guys get so big! I'm scared that one day I'm gonna come home from work and there's gonna be a whole family of them sitting on the couch eating our food and playing video games. It's gonna happen. Just you wait and see.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:02 PM
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Hemlocker,
I know they do eat insects and all but they're scawwy! I can't help it!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 4:00 PM
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MayB, SLUGS through the floorboards? Oh, Lordy!
Now THAT'S a bitch! Eew!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 3:59 PM
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blackcat, I do live in Florida and I DO get those damn
Palmetto Bugs. Friggin' flying roaches. And, when you step on them they STANK! PU!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 17, 2005 at 3:57 PM
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>:-} i feel better now.... at least i'm not the only one whose stalked
and terrified by these nasty things!!! It would be nice if there WAS a place to go and NOT find insects crawling around and INVADING your privacy at every turn, but since there are like 300 lbs of insect per every person on the planet (or something like that, don't remember, heard it somewhere...) it doesn't seem likely we'll EVER get a break! As for me - ITS WAR!!!
posted by
wiserabbit
on September 17, 2005 at 3:09 PM
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temple certainly has a point. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on September 17, 2005 at 9:30 AM
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spiffy,
If you're going to move out to a tent, be sure to go to the sporting goods store and get a real expensive one that zips up with a totally BUGPROOF screen. I have awakened in the middle of the night in one of those to see about 15 spiders lolling around on the outside of the net.
There is just no way of escaping the fun, ya know? Oh well. Think of it as basic training. I've heard recently that we are on the brink of a regression to the Pleistocene era--and we aren't even going to be able to drive around in out cars listening to Hijos de las Putas Hip Hop sounds. (You should listen to some of the new Spanni Hip Hop.) 
jj (a-scuse my irrelevence.)
posted by
Jack_Flash
on September 17, 2005 at 2:21 AM
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No wonder they are pissed at you, it's Uncle BOB the spider dude...
Geez. Hemlocker can do whatever he (or she) wants, but if it's in my house it's DEAD. They may not harm me, but they do harm the cats, and they still bite. I want to know where they are, and there's no way to do that unless I kill em. Even then, no guarantees. You did right, good woman. From the firm of Duey Killem & How, we agree this was your best move. And by the way Hemlocker, her other spider pics make that pic look like nothing, and these are brown recluse spiders. They are harmful. If they bite one of her dogs, they could likely kill it, and a bite to her, she's not very big you know, could make her very sick. If that spider in Germany was indeed a house spider, which I doubt of that size, that's a whole different thing. Recluse spiders aren't the same everywhere, in Florida they are very big and can be very bad bites, especially to animals.
posted by
Temple
on September 17, 2005 at 2:10 AM
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Man, I will go to any lengths to get a spider, but if I fuck with it I gotta be suuuure I got her. Whew! We get black widows here in the desert, BTW. AAAAAAUUUGHHH!
I hate 'em.
posted by
Schatz
on September 17, 2005 at 1:41 AM
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SpitFire70, Personally I find spiders to be an excellent excuse for
practicing my rubber-band shooting. I call it hunting. People think that's weird so I usually don't tell people this.
posted by
Adaman
on September 17, 2005 at 12:57 AM
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Spitfire
Oh, man, that's funny stuff. I had no idea you were such a funny-bone tickler.
"The buzz in the bushes...you don't seem to be well liked..." That kind of stuff folds me right over. Btw, I'll have a beer, even though I'm not a spider.
Well, not in this life, anyway.... Maybe that's why I like legs so much. hmm...
.
posted by
Lensman
on September 16, 2005 at 11:01 PM
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spitfire--
What a poor, piddly spider in that other picture. You should see the ones from the bloggerr in Germany. Ninety-nine per cent of spiders are harmless to humans. They are not insects, but they sure do clean lots of insects out of your house. If I don't want 'em around, I catch them on a piece of paper and/or plop them into a glass, and put them outside. Really, your life does not have to be ruined by these fascinating creatures without whom we would really give it up to the insects. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on September 16, 2005 at 10:21 PM
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spitfire70, I know how this feels. It seems to happen in waves too. I have friends who don't care what wild creatures take over their house but I can only put up with so much. I used to live in one house where slugs used to come up through the floorboards in the night. That was about the worst. Definitely couldn't walk through that room in the dark. Ugh!
Thank you for your kind comment BTW. I get the feeling that the job has my name on it in pencil at least-- it's very rare that one seems so right - but I do need to weigh it up carefully, and there is still a one in eight change they won't choose me
posted by
Azur
on September 16, 2005 at 8:37 PM
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spitfire...
aren't you in Florida? At least you don't have those palmetto bugs in your house. That's got to be punishment for living so close to the beach and sunny weather... you get gigantic flying roaches in return. ugh.
posted by
-blackcat
on September 16, 2005 at 8:20 PM
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Aw, thanks Justsouno-Mom!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 16, 2005 at 6:54 PM
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That is the cutest one yet Ms. Spitfire. Keep it up. BB
posted by
Justi
on September 16, 2005 at 6:53 PM
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