When I wrote the first article about them, I thought they'd leave me alone.......but noooooooooooooooo, even my husband says he hears the spiders on the next block know about our house. And have been coming to visit. Again, and again, as they are thrown out into the cold, and crawl back to our house.
It's different this time. So I did more research. NO I will NOT post pictures - I had to have my son scroll so that I did not have to look too much at....them.
"It's okay, Mom," my son tried to calm me after the first one jumped out at me from the coffee cupboard - at 6 am!!! "Spiders are territorial - they don't like each other, and so only one will be there". By noon another attacked me from the same cupboard - so much for territorial - as I ripped apart the offending shelves to find..........nothing.
"I told you, they are territorial - but that doesn't mean one won't move in once the other is gone," explains my exasperated son. Yeah, right, just what I need, an army waiting to attack me one by one.
Our family has a hard time sometimes getting to eat a full meal together, as we all tend to work shifts. Last week we were doing our first home-cooked dinner together, when all of a sudden my daughter and husband told me to get up, quick! My son reiterated their urgency as I turned around and found....yep, on the back of my chair!!! I jumped one way, and the spider jumped another - into Justin's waiting hands and was given a royal send off as I was screaming my head off and spinning, looking up, down, around, and doing it all again. My daughter and husband were laughing their heads off, with Justin joining in after escorting our unwanted visitor into the cold.
And yep, the next day the &^*)#@$^* thing was back - hiding in my mail on the counter - waiting to pounce - which he did - and so did I - and....yes, sigh, I killed him. I admit it. And I would do it again. No remorse. I'll take the jail term, your honour. And you would not BELIEVE the fuss this caused the rest of my family. My son would not speak to me the rest of the day.
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