Day 29: Unwelcome Visitors
It's that time of year again, isn't it. I woke up to this unwelcome visitor and two of his friends having a party in my kitchen, so not the best start to the day!
This one was enormous! It was so big that a drinking glass was too small to fit over it so I had to use the big glass measuring beaker. I'm obviously getting braver because after the initial heart attack type panic, I was composed enough to take a photo before I dealt with it. I wasn't composed enough to get it properly in focus though! I put the three of them out on the patio so the house, as far as I can tell, is a spider free zone once again. Blogger is doing strange things to the photos again - the walls are white!
Yesterday turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable day. It's always good fun to hear what the children have been up to during the summer break and I was pleased that they'd all restarted their practice schedules as soon as school started. It was all about deciding on their targets for the next few months and, the biggest decision, choosing the new pieces of music to learn. They always get to choose one piece themselves and this time the girls have all chosen different Disney songs, one boy has chosen Star Wars and the other has gone for Lord of the Rings. It's going to be an interesting time!
I have a fairly quiet day today with just a lunchtime recorder club to run. I'd normally come straight home but my youngest learner will be having a music certificate presented in assembly and she wants me to be there to watch, so I'll be hanging about for a couple of hours. If it stays dry I'll have a look around Avebury, if it's raining I'll read my book in the staff room. It's not the best use of my time but she worked so hard to get this certificate and she is desperate for me to be there, even though I'd already presented the certificate to her at the end of last term in front of her family!
Yeah for being brave - I'm with you on not liking spiders & they are certainly having a very busy time of year on this side of the big pond. They can move so fast! At work I have been asked several times this week, to get rid of the spider lurking in the treatment rooms - I try to capture & release but sometimes that's not possible ... one of our male physio therapists has the most problems with spiders, he's very afraid of spiders. Spiders aren't my biggest fears, so when those that terrify me show up, he's called in to return the favour!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, they have been everywhere all summer! The little spindly ones make such a mess with their whispy webs all over the place 😑 As to the darker, scampering ones, I've had to annihilate three in the last fortnight. Sorry for them but that's how it is. Well done for dealing with yours.
ReplyDeleteLovely that your pupil so wanted you present. Nice of you to stay for her.
Urgh! I am now OK with all spiders except those huge ones!
ReplyDeleteVery brave of you to go anywhere near to catch it. I'm always worried they will move.
Luckily (so far) we have only had "half-size" or "quarter-size" invaders this autumn, not the huge ones.
Pleased you are happy back in the classroom :)
Yikes! That was one enormous spider! What kind was it? Possibly a wolf spider? I hate spiders, no matter their size. They're just creepy! I don't mind the tiny ones but the big ones freak me out. I'm always so scared when I weed the foliage around my deck that I'm going to get bit by a brown recluse spider. I've seen the damage their bites do firsthand as an old acquaintance had a nasty one on his arm that got infected and he had to go through numerous treatments. https://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-bite-picture.htm
ReplyDeleteI used to own a bar and a few customers were hanging out shooting pool early in the afternoon one day. All of the sudden, a big huge tarantula fell out of the ceiling and onto the middle of the pool table. It was shocking, to say the least. The guys all acted macho about it; I was freaking out that there could be more. One of them rescued it and took it outside to the back fields. That was just plain crazy how that all happened. Just all of the sudden, plop! on the table, this big hairy ugly thing.
Thanks for sharing the photo! Although I can't stand spiders, I do find them fascinating.
Michele at Angels Bark
The spiders are out in numbers at the moment!
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