Wednesday, August 22, 2007

so many spiders

There are SO many spiders in California. All over the place. Almost every night just before we go to bed, we have to remove at least one spider from the bedroom ceiling.

Walking around town, you see hundreds, if not thousands, of webs in the plants in people's front yards. Next time we take a vacation, I'll expect our house to be completely filled with spiders and webs when we get back.






Most of them are fairly small and non-threatening. But I've seen quite a few pretty scary ones. The only one to worry about is the black widow, which is fairly common in California, but bites from them are still very unlikely.


If bad old horror movies have taught me anything, it's that one must always be on guard... you never know when a giant spider might creep up behind you.

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