"Yowie" wrote in message
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On 17/10/2010 3:54 AM, Christina Websell wrote:
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Christina Websell wrote:

I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's
been
there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house spider web
between
my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her thingies that poke out in
front of
her, boys have lumps on them.
That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with.

I would guess so!! Any spider that's big enough for you to determine her
gender is too big for me.

I am proud to announce that I decided to gird my loins and evict her this
morning.
I'm a wuss about big hairy spiders, it makes no difference at all that I
know they cannot harm me, for some reason they give me the horrors. I
know
it is not logical.
I've been putting it off, of course. It seemed easier to leave her there
than challenge myself to do it.
Anyway, no spiders were harmed in the process and it's done. She ran
when I
moved the spice jars and hid and I thought, no, I have to find you and I
did. She curled up in fright when she knew she was discovered but I
scooped
her up carefully with a wooden spoon and put her outside the window.
She'll
just have to find another house to be a house spider in.
If you all knew how difficult it was for me to do that, you'd be proud of
me
too.

It's very easy to kill insects& spiders because you *can* and you don't
like the look of them, but it was not her fault that I have a problem
with
her appearance, is it? She deserves to live.
(I'm beginning to think I'm turning into a Buddhist)

Wow Tweed. Yes, very proud of you!



She was a big one, and yes, I wanted to remove her without harming her and I
did it. Yay.
I can't describe how I feared doing that. She'd been there for two weeks or
so and I knew either she'd be eyeballing me all winter when I was eating my
breakfast or she had to go.
She went.
Tweed