So…. I’m sitting in the dark scrolling along and clicking between FB and Twitter, checking some of my favs, and I catch a glimpse of a shadow of something on the top edge of the screen. I focus in on the top of the screen and look closer…. there it goes again….wait, what’s this? It’s …..a……SPIDER crawling across the top of my computer! Awwwww….. Thankfully I am not afraid of spiders. So I blow him off and tap the computer against my knee for good measure and hope he finds somewhere cozy for the night. You do know they are all around us and a necessary part of the ecosystems in which we live and thrive, right? A few little spiders never hurt anybody. If it had been daylight and I wasn’t so tired, I’d have caught him in my hand and gently transplanted him to the shrubbery out the back door. But he’ll still be around tomorrow or the next day, doing what he does in my environment. And I’ll leave him alone and he’ll leave me alone. Good night, little spider!
I let mice, snakes, and frogs have their space…. we have a few of them get into the garage or sunroom occasionally. We one time lured a mouse out of the garage with cheese crumbles leading out the door onto the driveway! 🙂 Then sent him on his way and shut the door behind him! And I’ve captured more than a couple of snakes brought in by a cat or that found its way into the garage by brushing them into the mop bucket with a broom and putting a box lid over it and trotting it to the woods. Frogs and lizards, I just chase down and grasp in my hands and turn loose in a flower bed. My husband calls me the “critter getter” in our house. I’ve had to evict a few birds and 1 very terrified raccoon who came in thru the pet door hunting food…. We also will have decent sized turtles that get turned around and caught in a corner of the yard somewhere and have to be re-directed….. Ah, life at the edge of the woods…..
That was one of the things that Bill really came to appreciate, especially after the storm those weeks when we had no AC, when we were in and out a lot and EVERY BODY’S habitat was turned upside down! LOL! I’ve gotten telephone calls telling me to come home and evict a critter! From 2/26/2020