(now listening to the screech from the shower scene in Psycho...eeh eeh eeeh eeeh)
I danced 3 feet around it. Trying to figure out what to kill it with. I don't like guts on my shoes and I CANNOT step on them for fear that they will stay tucked away under the treads of my soul only to crawl up and around my shoe to EAT ME !
I actually went up stairs and was fumbling through stuff when I heard my daughter playing so nicely and by herself in her room. I made a decision right then and there...I grabbed a big plastic container and headed downstairs. With a 6 foot stick I steered the horrible, monstrous beast in to its temporary cell.
I carried it upstairs and we sat and looked at him for quite a while. After we studied him and shook him up a little...well I actually tipped the container sideways because he wasn't moving and then he started to move at the speed of light so I dropped him :) I then tried to explain away my behavior as to not create an arachnophobe.
I decided to show Sydney that every life is important and took him outside...to the FAR end of the yard...FURTHEST from the house and released him.
As we came back in the house Syd said, "mom member when we caught a GREAT BIG spider."
"Yip" I replied....hoping she would take the lesson and carry it with her in life.
"mom ? how do spiders poop and pee ?" ***
(crickets chirping)
"I will have to look that up and get back to you Syd"
"ok"
Syd went back to her room and I headed back downstairs to do laundry.
Thoughts were racing through my mind....did he come home with us camping, did I step on him when I went in to the laundry room...how close have I come to him. Did he catch a ride on me from upstairs....has he been there for a while...in my hair ? OH GOD ! creepy crawly chills all over me.
As you can clearly see...he is nearly the size of Syd's hand. :)
Can you see the wheels turning.....hmmmm.....how does this creature potty ?
Yet another view of this devilish being.
Answer to : DO SPIDERS POOP AND PEE ?
The process is called defecation. Yes .Their waste is a mixture of different substances and is roughly analogous to a mixture of feces and urine. It appears as a white or cream coloured, chalky residue after the water in it evaporates
22 comments:
OMG! I've got a serious case of creepy crawlys now! Thanks alot! That SO would have been one dead spider! I don't know how or with what I would have smooshed it but it would now be D-E-A-D.
You're a better woman/momma than me! My lesson would have been...spiders are icky...kill them. :o)
So glad you got the picture because I was sure the thing was the size of a damn dime!! Interesting, Imani was asking my all the bug questions yesterday; what do the eat, where do they sleep, on and on.... Thank god for internet, what did our moms tell us 35 years ago when we asked all these questions?
OMG! You are way better than me. I could not have caught that thing and let it go so it could find its way back. I would have smashed it to death and flushed it. I am sooo scared of spiders, especially big ones. Your pictures made me cringe! We have had lots of spiders around lately, and mice, and some big huge cock roach looking thing in our damn bathtub!
...big gross look on my face...
This is terrible! What is wrong with you K? Did the buddhist in you bite your butt? Come on! Kill that animal! It's too big to quietly keep as a pet in YOUR YARD! eeeew.
But how brave is that sweet girl of yours? I don't think Gracie would've stayed in the same room for more than .008 seconds. Syd is just standing over it, curiously - like, "I could totally eat you if I wanted!" Touch chicks - both of you.
I don't think you understand. I have to close my eyes to scroll down and get to my comments. I may have to remove the pictures just so that I don't have to look at them any more.
Oh and Kelly BELLY....it was AT LEAST the size of a quarter....and it MAY HAVE even been the size of a 50 cent piece. oh I get the shivers even thinking about how big it was.
Keri. I'm not nasty. I'm a mother for hell sakes. but when you go writting on my blog stuff about touching chicks. I just can't help but go there. :) ha ha
If you read the last sentence....like, "I could totally eat you if I wanted" touch chicks. both of you.
(I of course know what you meant...I'm just saying)
I meant "TOUGH" chicks! ahhhh! I am so funnier than I thought :)
Dancing 3 feet around it?!?! How very un-butch of you!
I spit out my Diet Dr. Pepper reading about the "eating your intestines out. killing you from the inside with their poisonous venom!" LMAO!
In my house, Lois is the screecher and I am the bug killer. How muce that you saved it from death and gave Syd a great lesson about nature.
I would have killed it. With my shoe. And probably left its guts on the wall for Lois to take care of. LOL!
Lois called me this morning all proud of herself because she finally got that pesky fly in our house. How??
She chased it down with the vacuum cleaner nose and sucked it deep into the vacuum bag.
BTW - I also envisioned a tiny daddy long legs, so thanks for sharing the picture for the sake of us not thinking you were a big wuss! LOL!!!!
WOW, can't believe that Syd was so comfortable aroung the big guy!! I too would have smashed the sucker and flushed him - of course not wanting b to catch a glimpse. I would have never thought of turning it into a teaching moment, way to go K!
Steph had this massive book for med school (I don't remember what subject, but the damn book was at least 5 inches thick) -- it made for good spider killing. I had to squash a spider once that was racing across the ceiling... I was shocked that the book did not cause a big dent in the ceiling when I slammed it up there to squish Mr. Spider who I named "Joe"... he was that big, big enough to name. Good for you for setting your spider free.... do you think he'll find his way back in???????? LOL
Carey...I don't like to hear them crunch...when J kills them I cover my ears, squeeze my eyes closed and do a "na na na na na na" thing until they are dead.
I don't like their guts on stuff. If I saw their guts on a book or something I would be reminded that they were there and then EVERY HAIR, STRING, or nothing at all that touches me will in my mind be a spider web with a GIGANTIC, KILLER, SPIDER on the end...just waiting to bite me.
I have been wiping away make believe spiders all day since this episode.
Thanks for the reassuring words about his return. I'm sure I will sleep better tonight :)
Ew, you have totally given me the creepy crawlies, I can't even sit still now.
Good for you though turning it into a lesson for Syd.
I am so proud of you! I would've wanted to kill the sucker too but for Syd, that had to be cool to see one up close. It freaked my freak when I saw the photo. Icky!
I now proclaim you MOTHER OF THE YEAR!! You put the rest of us to shame, you sick bastard. That's just nasty but, oh, how that girl loves you and will brag you up to every kid she knows. Hell, even to kids she doesn't know. She will just start wandering up to random children saying "I have the coolest Mom. She caught a HUGE spider for me and said we could keep it for a pet in the backyard!!"
Better start shotgunning more so that you can take the kids outside.
I never bother with the container or squishing it. I get the windex, the lysol, hairspray whatever the hell is the most handy and spray the shit out those things. It works for ants too. Lexie is deathly afraid of spider and bugs so there is no way that she would be down with that!
OMG!! That is the largest thing I have ever seen, I too was sitting here picturing a small spider, good GOD!! One thing you don't know about K is when we were living in Tooele we had two of the hugest Wolff/Recluse spiders in our garage and she chose to keep them in seperate jar. The mother had baby spiders all over its back we called her Hannabella 1,000's of babies she even took the damn thing to work with her. You would shake the jar and they would fly all over. DISGUSTING!! They both FINALLY died thank heavens. I don't like spiders AT ALL EITHER!
EWWW!
OMG, and all this time I thought the stuff on my upper lip was a milk mustache! I have been allowing spiders to defacate on me! This is right up there with the time you stepped on a spider and released all of its babies...
OMG!! LMAO the whole time while reading this I can totally picture all of this happening.. K dancing around, wanting to scream and cry.. But knowing she has to be this "wonder mom" that she is.. LOL
YOU ROCK K.. SAVING THAT CUTE SPIDER AND PUTTING IT IN YOUR BACK YARD. That big, it was probably pregnant and if she would of killed it, babies would have gone EVERYWHERE.. .LMAO!
So proud of you for capturing the beast and laughing in the face of fear. You go Spidergirl!
You're a better mother than me. I'd have squashed that spider dead and screamed like a girl the whole time I was doing it.
Soooo gross! I hate spiders. I couldn't even look at the phtos. You're such a good mommy to make a life lesson out of the entire experience.
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