My New Pet
Posted on September 30, 2007 - Filed Under Personal, Simple Life |
Yesterday, I was sitting calmly at my computer, being totally lazy and playing Diner Dash 2, when Dorian ran over and yelled “RAÑA!”
For those of you not familiar with baby Spanish, that would be “araña” which means spider. Don´t ask me where he learned that word, I usually squash spiders before anyone has a chance to discuss them. There is no trial and no jury in this house for creepy crawlies, I´m afraid, especially giant hairy ones with eight legs. I am so not a spider fan. I wasn´t in Canada when the biggest spiders I came across were the size of a loonie . . . and I´m certainly not now that they are practically big enough to cover my palm!
Dorian, unfortunately, was right. He pointed to a big honking spider just above my bulletin board and informed me that the “raña” was in the “copeys” (that would be pokies in his mixed up language, a word we use for thumbtacks, barbed wire and thistles and anything else that is . . . well, poky). And there it was. Big, ugly and right above the bulletin board full of pokies.
As I write this, the darn thing is still up there. Yup, a spider, a giant one at that, has survived a full 24 hours in my home and right above my desk! Why? I´m not really sure except that Irving wasn´t home yesterday and I was kind of scared to smush it myself. The big ones sometimes jump, you know, and I really, really couldn´t handle typing if I didn´t know where the creature was hiding on my desk.
Plus, the spider is smart. It stays halfway behind the bulletin board so it can´t be properly squished unless I get real close, which just isn´t going to happen. So, we eye each other from time to time and go about our business . . . I am writing and the spider is . . . I´m not sure WHAT the spider is doing, exactly, but I guess he´s probably happy to avoid death by shoe at the moment.
This spider is not long for the world, I suspect. I don´t think I can go on for another whole day with it sitting there staring at me (although right now it´s staring into the gap behind the bulletin board), so Irving will be called up to serve his duty as Giant Spider Assassin once he wakes up.
I would have taken a photo, but my camera doesn´t feel like working today. 
And thanks to the scam, I will no longer have the money to buy my dream camera. So, sorry folks, but we´re pressing on with blurry shots whenever the camera decides it´s in the mood to shoot!
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I’m actually quite glad that you didn’t provide us with a picture of the 8 legged freak… I can’t stand the things and jump a mile when I see one! I recently spent a night on the sofa because one was under my duvet and nobody else was home to remove it!
Well, it´s a good thing my camera isn´t working! Don´t want to scare you away from the computer.
You are a much braver mom than I am. That thing would have been dead in .5 seconds.