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Somewhat OT - spiders
"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Oct 16, 2:13 pm, Yowie wrote: On 17/10/2010 3:54 AM, Christina Websell wrote: wrote in message ... 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! Yowie LOL to make *your* hair stand on end, there is a local place called Butterfly World where they also house (confined to glass cages) a large selection of exotic insects. One of the fun things the kids and visitors can do is hold and pet a very large furry tarantula named Mama Something (forget her name) which I do every time we take my grand daughter to the insect zoo. Docents watch you and the spider carefully while this is going on. I have never had anything but a 'tude of passive cooperation from Mama...who knows if it likes petting or not? The docents have also let me feed it dried treats of something I have no desire to know what's in it, but Mama loves it. Urk. ------ I am fine with snakes, moths, beetles, any size, but if you put a tarantula on to my body I guarantee my heart would stop. Which tells you all how difficult it was to evict that big girl spider from behind my spice jars. We had to have a confrontation. Tweed |
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Somewhat OT - spiders
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Yowie" wrote in message ... On 17/10/2010 3:54 AM, Christina Websell wrote: wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Joy" wrote in message . .. "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "hopitus" wrote in message ... On Oct 16, 10:54 am, "Christina Websell" wrote: wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I am proud of you for both your bravery under fire (the British way) and your kindness in throwing Old Hairy outside instead of smashing her just because we can. Well done, and a MileHigh Salute to you and Boyfie. thanks, hop. It took some courage and yes, I know it's ridiculous to be afraid of big spiders but I am. Imagine your worst fear and I did it, without hurting her. We Brits can do this ;-) Tweed Boyfie says hello I am also impressed by your bravery. My daughter also has arachnophobia, and I know that phobias are not easy to overcome. One can't reason them away, because they aren't reasonable. They just are, and they're very real. I try very hard with my arachnophobia, I can manage the small ones now but realistically, the huge ones are always going to give me a problem. No amount of studying them to try and find them interesting does any good, just cannot stop being afraid of big spiders. I have no idea why, it's just a fact. Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "Joy" wrote in message . .. "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "hopitus" wrote in message ... On Oct 16, 10:54 am, "Christina Websell" wrote: wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I am proud of you for both your bravery under fire (the British way) and your kindness in throwing Old Hairy outside instead of smashing her just because we can. Well done, and a MileHigh Salute to you and Boyfie. thanks, hop. It took some courage and yes, I know it's ridiculous to be afraid of big spiders but I am. Imagine your worst fear and I did it, without hurting her. We Brits can do this ;-) Tweed Boyfie says hello I am also impressed by your bravery. My daughter also has arachnophobia, and I know that phobias are not easy to overcome. One can't reason them away, because they aren't reasonable. They just are, and they're very real. I try very hard with my arachnophobia, I can manage the small ones now but realistically, the huge ones are always going to give me a problem. No amount of studying them to try and find them interesting does any good, just cannot stop being afraid of big spiders. I have no idea why, it's just a fact. Tweed That's the problem with phobias. They don't have to make sense, but that doesn't make them any less real. I used to know a woman who had an extreme fear of heights. She once went to a conference in a large hotel. When she entered her room on the 20th floor, she saw that there were floor to ceiling windows, and the drapes were open. She literally had to crawl across the room to shut the drapes. Some people manage to get over phobias, usually with psychiatric help or through hypnotism, but some never do. Many people who don't have phobias don't understand, and think they can talk someone out of a phobia. It can't be done. I think you're doing amazingly well. Joy |
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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. We never get spiders in the house here, that I know of, but bless your heart for releasing them. I have terrified of spiders, except for the Daddy Long Legs. Love, Kyla ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Any spider that is foolish enough to enter my domain gets a trip to the Bridge. No sob stories will follow them. MLB Amen to that MLB, except for a Daddy Long Legs, which we never see. Love, Kyla |
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What about a Ladybug? LOL Love, Kyla
dh says if the bug of any kind is close enough to him to be sent off, then either it is stupid and needs to be helped along to keep the quality of the gene pool up, or it is expressing a death wish and as a good hoomin he should help it goe, Lee |
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he does not discriminate between bugs, and honestly i am glad, i think its
great tweed is dealing with a phobia but i am sorry, not warm blooded and no fur or feathers, not interested in what it lives like as long as its away from me, Lee "Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message ... What about a Ladybug? LOL Love, Kyla dh says if the bug of any kind is close enough to him to be sent off, then either it is stupid and needs to be helped along to keep the quality of the gene pool up, or it is expressing a death wish and as a good hoomin he should help it goe, Lee |
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Kyla asked:
What about a Ladybug? I get occasional half-dead ladybugs in the house. I leave them alone. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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