bapu

yes, whimpy.
LOL


still......

A spider story: 

So about 30 years ago..... I was playing in a band and the band broke up. So I decided to do a solo guitarist gig for a time. I would go out to clubs and play acoustic guitar and sing.  

I played a number of the military clubs since they could keep me working during the week. I ended up at the Courthouse Bay enlisted club.  A few Marines walked in with a shoe box and set it on the table while drinking their beer.  Every now and then they would peek in the box and then replace the lid. 

Eventually they opened the box and one Marine reaches in and removes a pet Tarantula. He let it crawl around. Soon however, the spider stopped moving... it just sat there on the table. 

One of the Marines brings it up to the stage while I was on break and set the freaking thing ON MY MIC!  
I returned to the stage and saw this huge honking spider on my Mic. I was about to hit it when the Marine says.... Hey don't hit it... it's already dead. 

Seems they had decided to get the spider high with them. They were smoking some pot before they came into the club. They had shotgunned the spider by blowing smoke directly into the shoe box. Apparently the spider OD'd on the smoke and expired inside the club. 

They thought it would be great fun to put it on my mic.  Yeah right......  wrong!

They recovered the spider's carcass from the mic.... I refused to touch it dead or not..... and placed it back in the shoe box and replaced the lid. They took it with them a few minutes later when they left the club... probably to go smoke another doob.

Having been a Marine in the past at the age of 19 and away from home for the first time.... I can relate to a degree. 

I've seen them eat beer cans and glass. Just bit off a chunk.... chew it and swallow.... I can't imagine what the next morning's hangover would be like...or that bathroom visit..... 

Oh My!

Herb, we call those Garden Spiders with the awesome webs Orb Weavers or August Spiders ('cause that's when you mostly see them).  I have a friend who refuses to walk out onto his patio without first grabbing his "spider stick" a waving it around in the air ahead of him. Makes for some funny pantomime.  But, a good idea, even if hilarious to watch.

OTOH, had a grandmother that lived in Africa for a couple years...

She saw the spider and its web in the house, went to make sure its remaining life was short...

And was told not to touch it... spiders were the good guys as they ate malaria carrying mosquitos.

julibee


Herb, we call those Garden Spiders with the awesome webs Orb Weavers or August Spiders ('cause that's when you mostly see them).  I have a friend who refuses to walk out onto his patio without first grabbing his "spider stick" a waving it around in the air ahead of him. Makes for some funny pantomime.  But, a good idea, even if hilarious to watch.

There is a superstition that if you disturb the web the garden spider will "write your name" on the web and if that happens you will die. 


I like to feed them and on occasion... touch the web to see them shake the web. But I mostly let them be since I have never found one in the house. 


I lived in a mobile home back in my poor musician days and there was a black but fuzzy spider that took up residence on the inside of the window screen. My mom used to call them dust spiders. I would catch bugs and put them on the screen. The spider would rush out and grab them. I did that for several weeks until one day, I noticed the spider was growing quite large and the hairs around it's eyes were turning an iridescent green and blue. Quite pretty, but a bit disturbing so I captured the critter and took it outside and let it go..... it was after all... a pet that I had fed.