Ok .. so I just made myself a big ole' mess I think.
Here's a sad story. I don't cook that often so my kitchen is more of a hallway than anything else because I don't keep much food in the house either, or at least anything that requires more than a couple of minutes in the microwave.
Because of that, I have the tendency to walk through the room a 30 times a day and not see the first thing in there besides the sink, to fill the dogs water up.
Ok .. two nights ago I'm in the kitchen and I look over in the corner of the cabinets and I see a spider web... aaaww!! Well, my theory is that I don't want to destroy the web, but I want to destroy the spider, because if I knock out the web, the spider will set up shop somewhere else in my house.
So, I have been checking and checking to see the spider. Finally, last night I get a glimpse of it .. the damn thing is about a half inch or more long!! I about died because I'm expecting a little spider and not a BEAST!!
So .. I shudder, then walk into the other room to fetch myself a shoe. I come back and it's gone. Well now that I know how big it is, there is no way I'm noseying around looking for it. I have this fear from the movie Arachnophobia that the darn thing is going to jump at me and bite my hand. So, I leave for the evening and decide to look again when I get home.
I come home that night and there it is, in the same spot. I pick up the shoe and smack down at it. Missed bigger than life and away the spider ran. Well, crap!!
So today I look and of course it's sleeping, dreaming of ways to bite me (thank goodness my room is on the other side of the house!). I leave for the day and come home this evening to see him resting in his usual spot.
Well, I've had enough of this jerk sitting in my house taking up residency and not paying rent. So I check under the cabinet and oddly enough there's a bottle of Raid down there. Lucky for me, it mentions spiders on the bag of it. I practice spraying it just to be sure it actually works. It does. Then, I aim and spray...
Off he ran so I have no idea whether I hit him or not.
Now I'm mad, so I start moving things around (with my hands fully covered of course) because I want to find a spray him, but in the back of my mind I'm guessing that he's ran behind the stove. Of course I can't find him, so I get mad, grab the bottle of spray and start hosing everything down with it.
About 30 seconds later I stopped. Ok ... hello stupid.
Now I've not only drove him away to another unknown part of the house, but now I've hosed down my counter top and some counter top utensils with bug spray. Idiot!! Of course, knowing the mad spider is still in the vicinity there is no way I'm cleaning that up right now. I guess I'll give him a day to pack up and move (with my luck into my room) and then clean the mess that I made.
So he's making a complete mockery of me, but I don't know what I'm going to do to get this monster out of my house. He's too fast and I'll be darned if I swallow my pride and ask for back up. I'm hoping I sprayed him enough that he'll just go die somewhere or maybe he'll leave out of whatever avenue he got inside my house (I'm assuming that he came in from the window nearby that the idiot owner leaves open 24/7 - the screens down of course but I'm sure it's not bug proof). Or ... what about my cat .. isn't that supposed to be her area? She may need to be wrote up or something because she's not doing her job!!
Anyway, I've been in my house for over 6 years now and I've never actually seen spiders, or much of anything in my house, maybe because of the animals but who knows. So I guess this 10 foot long spider is to make up for the years of peace I've had. If that's the case, hopefully I'll find it soon, kill it, and go back to a bug-free life.
Please?! .. :o)
Here's a sad story. I don't cook that often so my kitchen is more of a hallway than anything else because I don't keep much food in the house either, or at least anything that requires more than a couple of minutes in the microwave.
Because of that, I have the tendency to walk through the room a 30 times a day and not see the first thing in there besides the sink, to fill the dogs water up.
Ok .. two nights ago I'm in the kitchen and I look over in the corner of the cabinets and I see a spider web... aaaww!! Well, my theory is that I don't want to destroy the web, but I want to destroy the spider, because if I knock out the web, the spider will set up shop somewhere else in my house.
So, I have been checking and checking to see the spider. Finally, last night I get a glimpse of it .. the damn thing is about a half inch or more long!! I about died because I'm expecting a little spider and not a BEAST!!
So .. I shudder, then walk into the other room to fetch myself a shoe. I come back and it's gone. Well now that I know how big it is, there is no way I'm noseying around looking for it. I have this fear from the movie Arachnophobia that the darn thing is going to jump at me and bite my hand. So, I leave for the evening and decide to look again when I get home.
I come home that night and there it is, in the same spot. I pick up the shoe and smack down at it. Missed bigger than life and away the spider ran. Well, crap!!
So today I look and of course it's sleeping, dreaming of ways to bite me (thank goodness my room is on the other side of the house!). I leave for the day and come home this evening to see him resting in his usual spot.
Well, I've had enough of this jerk sitting in my house taking up residency and not paying rent. So I check under the cabinet and oddly enough there's a bottle of Raid down there. Lucky for me, it mentions spiders on the bag of it. I practice spraying it just to be sure it actually works. It does. Then, I aim and spray...
Off he ran so I have no idea whether I hit him or not.
Now I'm mad, so I start moving things around (with my hands fully covered of course) because I want to find a spray him, but in the back of my mind I'm guessing that he's ran behind the stove. Of course I can't find him, so I get mad, grab the bottle of spray and start hosing everything down with it.
About 30 seconds later I stopped. Ok ... hello stupid.
Now I've not only drove him away to another unknown part of the house, but now I've hosed down my counter top and some counter top utensils with bug spray. Idiot!! Of course, knowing the mad spider is still in the vicinity there is no way I'm cleaning that up right now. I guess I'll give him a day to pack up and move (with my luck into my room) and then clean the mess that I made.
So he's making a complete mockery of me, but I don't know what I'm going to do to get this monster out of my house. He's too fast and I'll be darned if I swallow my pride and ask for back up. I'm hoping I sprayed him enough that he'll just go die somewhere or maybe he'll leave out of whatever avenue he got inside my house (I'm assuming that he came in from the window nearby that the idiot owner leaves open 24/7 - the screens down of course but I'm sure it's not bug proof). Or ... what about my cat .. isn't that supposed to be her area? She may need to be wrote up or something because she's not doing her job!!
Anyway, I've been in my house for over 6 years now and I've never actually seen spiders, or much of anything in my house, maybe because of the animals but who knows. So I guess this 10 foot long spider is to make up for the years of peace I've had. If that's the case, hopefully I'll find it soon, kill it, and go back to a bug-free life.
Please?! .. :o)
