The art teacher (who is so good to always help me out with surprise teacher quilts!) had all the kids sign it during art class. Now it's off to the longarm quilter.*****WARNING******
The next several pics are REAL and SCARY! REAL SCARY!!! View at your own risk.
Our earliest bus rider raced out the door this morning to catch his bus and immediately yelled 'WHOA!' and raced back in the door. "Dad! You gotta come see this!" And here is what Dad saw:
This 'ginormous', as the bus rider put it, spider had put up a web across the steps on our front porch and the bus rider had run right through it! The funny thing is, one of our neighbors has constructed a rope web across their front lawn and we had just been talking about doing the same thing on our porch. Now we don't have to! This little monster (who is really NOT little at ALL!) has done it for us!
Here's a pic of him (her?) next to the Little Tikes chair and a pumpkin so you can get an idea of size. For a spider, he's HUGE!!! And he webbed up the whole darn porch. While I was taking pictures the sun was reflecting off all kinds of web strung all over the place. I must have looked really funny to the neighbors tiptoeing around the porch taking pictures of the concrete. I was scared to death to trip his web! There's no doubt he can outrun me. In fact, I'm not so sure that he can't eat me right up.
This is the best picture I could get of his back. We've seen his kind before. There was one on the neighbor's bush one day and I've seen others with webs stretched out over bushes. We've looked them up and they are simply 'garden' spiders. They make a zigzag in their webs, almost like a big zipper right in the middle. Cool, huh? I have NEVER seen one this big! I've never seen ANY spider this big! I bet his body is at least 3 inches long and those legs? I'm getting chills just thinking about how long those might be! I'm scared to kill him, cuz I think in a fight he'd win. If he's eating bugs I kinda want him to stay. It's really scaring looking at him, but I think it might be scarier if he leaves - then I won't know where he is!! What if he takes up residence under my bed??? My bedroom is just on the other side of the wall from the porch! Our mailbox is on the porch and I'm worried about the mailman. I'm thinking of putting up a sign - "Warning! Big spider!" - but I don't think he'd believe me! It is almost Halloween. I guess I'll just watch for him and head him off. The mailman can choose not to deliver your mail if you have a mean dog - wonder if he can cut me off cuz there's a monster spider on my porch? Maybe I should call the post office....
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