Today's surprise

[gracedpalmer]

Is that it's giant-house-spiders-come-indoors season now. I can safely say that is more arachnid than I am used to seeing outside of an aquarium. While I'm not actually afraid of most creepy crawlies, it did give me something of a moment.

Hang out under the bed, spider. Eat all the bugs, but please don't socialize. You're very fast and look hard to escort outside.

In other news, I'm still more productive than I was in Wisconsin, but it has been a Week in the chronic illness department. I will be very happy when it stops being randomly hot.

Comments

[mizstorge]

We have had SO MANY spiders in the house over the past two months! We've taken more than 80 outside, and inadvertently killed a couple more. I read that they "smell" with their feet, and do not care for orange, lemon, cedar, or lavender, so I used some spray cleaner for wood with orange oil to wipe the molding along the bottom of the walls - it works! Unfortunately, "works" at least partially means "sends them walking on the walls and ceiling." Somewhat heartened by this, I bought some lemon-scented Lysol cleaner, and they don't seem to care much for that, either, so at least I'm not being unpleasantly surprised by finding them on cabinet work surfaces.

[gracedpalmer]

Oh, that is good to know. I don't mind them being here, but I'd really like to avoid waking up to a 3" spider in my bed.