July 20, 2012
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Oh, THAT Kind of Visitor!
Last Saturday we went to our son and daughter-in-love’s house to celebrate the fact that Jonathan was now 29 years young. It was great to see who all else was there…we sure do love them! Tara, my daughter-in-love is ever the gracious hostess and is so easy to love and be around. Her dad went outside for something and came back in declaring, “there’s a tarantula out here!” Tara, her sister Laura and I JUMPED up, grabbed our cameras and were set to snap photos. Thankfully, Tara got up close and personal with this visitor, so that I wouldn’t have to. (sweet thing, she is). This seems to be the summer for tarantulas and snakes.( 8
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I.WOULD.TOTALLY.FREAK!
great picture gail! but…shudder. twitch. shiver. i do not like spiders. and especially not big ones!
or snakes.
hope that you’re doing well. have a great weekend! love ya!
@down_onthefarm - I’m so tired! I had a whole big response for you. Lost it. Ugh. I love you, too! Tons of gigantic hugs to you!
I was bitten by a black widow spider once in my early 20′s and still have the scars on my calf to prove it from daily lancing by the doctor for two weeks. My leg was paralyzed for a few weeks. As an aside, the doctor asked how much I made, etc. I t told him I was married with a daughter and going to college part time. I made $1.25 and hour. He cut his bill to $20 and asked me if I could afford. it. That is the way our hearth care system used to work.
Nice photo and Happy Birthday to Jonathan.
framl
Yikes — I’m glad it was outside!
no big scary spiders or snakes in maine. thank goodness!–karen
Yikes……….I don’t like either one. Once in Calif. a long time ago, Hubby and I were driving and he saw a big tarantula in the road. We stopped by the side of the road and got out to see it. Someone in s small sports car drove by and purposefully ran over it. We were not happy! Now if it had been near my house, that would be a different story.
I would not share the same state with THAT spider
!!! Although… I’m sure we have some pretty yucky crawly things here too 
(I just don’t want to see any) lol. Hope you have a wonderful (spider free) weekend.
@ANVRSADDAY - Wow! Your experience with a black widow bite makes me want to investigate the front of our house where I would see one or two every summer. I wish healthcare could still be the way it was when your doc only charged you $20.00! I’ll pass the Birthday happies on to Jonathan. He likes thoughtful people!
@slmret - So were we, Janet, but it sure liked walking along right by the front door!!! eeeek!
@lifeontheWink - Oh, that’s so nice! And Maine seems like it would be such a refreshing place to be in right now!
@MadraysGarden - Key words, my dear. “anytime soon”!
@ata_grandma - I’d say the person in the sports car was obnoxious, ruining any further tarantula watching for you!
@AbidingontheVine - The weekend here; so far, so good! A friend told me that tarantulas migrate to another state. ( 8 Don’t worry. I doubt it’d be Illinois! I really don’t like all of the “yucky, crawly things” we have here. But this is NOTHing compared to how our life was in Mexico!
wow, that is quite a visitor! Way to make things exciting there
When you said you JUMPED up – my brain was running ahead of my eyes. I thought you were going to say you tucked your feet off the floor and on your chair! Snakes, horrible bugs, and mice….that would be my reaction…..no pictures for me!
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We husked, silked, cut, and froze corn yesterday. Just a few ears had worms in….that is the kind of bug I can handle. It was funny – my daughter and my precious grandsons were helping. When Darin and Seth would get a “wormy ear,” they gave it to me to do! We had almost 24 dozen. I’m guessing less then a dozen needed to be “dewormed!!” ~Blessings