- Window Number Two
Yes, yes. Quite lovely. Took my breath away.
You’ll notice, however, that I didn’t say anything about the first window. Something there took my breath away, too, but wasn’t mentioned.
I didn’t want to give my kids nightmares or prevent them from sleeping in their room at night.
Then I discovered that these lovely little letters aren’t necessarily getting shown to my darling Smithlings anyway. To be honest with you, I considered writing this post last night, but I didn’t want to give *myself* nightmares! So, without further adeu, and in full light of day, THIS is what I found as I opened up Window Number One:
The picture doesn’t quite do it justice - I’m sure you’re all extremely disappointed that I didn’t capture it’s huge, long-legged self any better as it came creeping quickly towards me.. The Thing was enormous. I’m just glad I didn’t drop my camera. Oh, how very, very, VERY glad I was to remind myself which side of the screen The Thing was. Yick. Double-yick. (“Yick,” for those of you who don’t know, is my word -as of now- for nasty things grown ups should be man enough to handle.)
A few minutes later, when I saw this:
and ran back over to the window to make sure The Thing had stayed on the right side of the screen. That child has a gift for being exactly where I’d rather he not be. Much to my relief, the daggers I shot at it earlier appeared to have worked:
Let the joyous news be spread, the wicked arachnid at last is dead!
Yours truly is now a big fan of the spraying for bugs that occured before we moved in. Yep. Normally I’m an all-natural, let-them-be, chemicals are for chemistry kind of gal. …. … That was before The Thing. Now I’m grateful such sprays exist and I’m trying to reconcile the organic-hippy in me to the idea of spraying every 3 months.
And THAT, dear readers, was the adventure of the First Window. Pretty exciting stuff. Just don’t tell my kids.
Really.
Don’t.
If you do, I’m sending them to sleep at your house, because they aren’t going to want to sleep here.
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
I’d just like to say that I’m glad to see the term “organic-hippy self”. Enjoy your spiders…
Any herbs you know of that scare off massive bugs? Like, the kind that would give me a nice, 10 ft perimeter here? Yes?