Follow the Spiders

by Mandy Weger on August 18, 2011

Okay. So.

EVERY MORNING I would run into a GIANT strand of spider web between the tomatoes and the peppers. It was like fishing line it was so strong and every morning as I went out to check on our tomatoes and peppers, I’d get a face-full of web. So I finally just accepted that the spider would keep rebuilding that one strand between the two garden boxes every day, and I learned to swipe at it before I walked between them.

And then last night, we let the dogs out and there was a HUGE web with a giant spider in the middle. We’re talking 2 feet across the main part of the web.

And a quarter-sized spider.

So I’m like…oh my god, this thing is going to kill me one of these days when I reach my hand into the peppers and it’s going to bite me and I’ll die and then what??

Mike got a broom, he gently swiped at the web to make sure he had control of where the spider went.

He put it on the ground.

WHAM. He smashed it with his foot.

I didn’t run into the web this morning.
:)

  • http://twitter.com/LazyKitchenette The Lazy Gourmet

    Why are you always finding crazy animals in your backyard??!?!?! I just did a google search for spiders found in NJ, and that right there looks like a Brown Recluse, and it’s totally poisonous.   I thought it was just a really big sack spider when I first saw it, but the legs on those are usually spindlier.  CRAY-CRAY!  

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  • http://www.geekinheels.com Geek in Heels

    I always get someone else to kill bugs and insects too. And if no one’s around? Sometimes I’ll just trap it under a container…or I’ll vacuum it up!

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  • http://twitter.com/loverenovations Amanda

    Ahh, that’s a scary spider! And I totally would have made my husband kill it too! :)

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  • Steph C

    Haha, that’s one way to take care of a problem!! Gotta give the spider credit for try and retrying every single day, though, lol!

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  • Creen14

    I usually don’t kill bugs (except wasps and mosquitoes), but occasionally we will find spiders like these that are just too creepy!!!

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  • http://hernewleaf.wordpress.com/ Kira

    Ewwwww

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