"---MIKE---" wrote in message
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I have always been sort of creeped out by spiders. About 11 years ago,
I worked at a water park. One day there was a huge spider at one of the
slide splashdowns. It was about 4 or 5 inches across. I killed it. A
few days later my tuxedo cat IKE disappeared. Karma? I never kill
spiders any more. When I see one in the house, I carefully capture it
in a jar and set it free outside. I don't know if they can survive
outside in the winter but I give them the chance.


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')


Spiders are good! I don't want them in my house, of course. And walking
through a really big spider web is creepy. You never feel like you get the
web off. Ugh! But they eat things like mosquitos and other annoying flying
insects, so they're good. Last year I had twin black and yellow argiope
spiders with webs flanking my back patio.

http://tinyurl.com/398n59x

The webs were huge and the spiders were magnificent to watch. As long as
they stayed outside they were fine with me and gorgeous to look at. I was
sad to see they didn't come back this year.

The thing that creeps me out is Palmetto bugs. Heh, I live in the Palmetto
State so I should expect them. But they're gross. Giant cockroaches.

Jill