The Great Time of Bugs

Well, you can tell winter is coming. Last night I had the glass door open
and the screen door shut. Now, sometimes bugs get in and I am alerted by
cats staring intently at the carpet that critters have entered. However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad! I bolted up and across the room to find her tailing a two
inch wolf spider. I had cleaned so there was nothing but the plush toy the
cats play with handy to incapacitate it. I stunned it long enough to run and
get a glass and cardboard (it's really hard for me to kill things bigger
than 1/2 inch for some odd reason). By the time I got back to it, it was
recovered but I got it into the glass and took it outside. Back to reading.
Minutes later, I see her with something else, though not large enough to
see. Go over and find a big old giant ant. Ants I can flush. Back to
reading. See Grant intently staring/pawing at something on desk. Itty bitty
something bug. Gone the way of the ant. Guess I'd better shut the door when
it gets dark. They can paw at millers through the glass. I'm not having a
bug convention again.

Karen

On 5 Oct 2003 10:26:09 -0500, Karen
wrote:

Well, you can tell winter is coming. Last night I had the glass door open
and the screen door shut. Now, sometimes bugs get in and I am alerted by
cats staring intently at the carpet that critters have entered. However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad! I bolted up and across the room to find her tailing a two
inch wolf spider. I had cleaned so there was nothing but the plush toy the
cats play with handy to incapacitate it. I stunned it long enough to run and
get a glass and cardboard (it's really hard for me to kill things bigger
than 1/2 inch for some odd reason). By the time I got back to it, it was
recovered but I got it into the glass and took it outside. Back to reading.
Minutes later, I see her with something else, though not large enough to
see. Go over and find a big old giant ant. Ants I can flush. Back to
reading. See Grant intently staring/pawing at something on desk. Itty bitty
something bug. Gone the way of the ant. Guess I'd better shut the door when
it gets dark. They can paw at millers through the glass. I'm not having a
bug convention again.

Karen
TuTu alerts me the same way. I had one of those spiders recently --
they move very fast, I hate bugs in the house, but this is the time
of the year they try to come in. Good luck! MLB

"Karen" wrote

However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad!

Eeeww! raging arachnophobia I can't tell you how much I admire you for
throwing it out. I don't like dead spiders any better than living ones, so I
don't want to kill them, but I can never bring myself to do the
cardboard-and-glass trick. I use a broom, and I'm afraid the creatures
rarely survive.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi

"Karen" wrote in message
...
Well, you can tell winter is coming. Last night I had the glass door open
and the screen door shut. Now, sometimes bugs get in and I am alerted by
cats staring intently at the carpet that critters have entered. However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad! I bolted up and across the room to find her tailing a
two
inch wolf spider. SNIP

...marking Karen down as someone whom not to visit....


Stacey

"Stacey" wrote

..marking Karen down as someone whom not to visit....


LOL! Stacey, your list of people to visit is getting quite short, isn't it?

--
Marina

in article , Stacey at
wrote on 10/6/03 10:16 PM:


"Karen" wrote in message
...
Well, you can tell winter is coming. Last night I had the glass door open
and the screen door shut. Now, sometimes bugs get in and I am alerted by
cats staring intently at the carpet that critters have entered. However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad! I bolted up and across the room to find her tailing a
two
inch wolf spider. SNIP

..marking Karen down as someone whom not to visit....


Stacey


Next time, I can airmail you the prey .....

Karen

Ewwww! I'm afraid I'd be hightailing it into the next room and
barricading myself in - the cats can HAVE the bugs! lol! You were very
very brave to get the spider out of the house alive...
--

Karen AKA Kajikit

Here kitty kitty kitty... visit http://www.catslaves.org!

Come and visit my part of the web:
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Nothing like live-action cat toys! Bugs kinda gross me out, too.
Fortunately, Albuquerque is not as buggy as where I grew up in Atlanta.
Christine
"Karen" wrote in message
...
Well, you can tell winter is coming. Last night I had the glass door open
and the screen door shut. Now, sometimes bugs get in and I am alerted by
cats staring intently at the carpet that critters have entered. However,
last night, I see Sugar chasing something THAT I CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE
ROOM!!!!!!!! Egad! I bolted up and across the room to find her tailing a
two
inch wolf spider. I had cleaned so there was nothing but the plush toy the
cats play with handy to incapacitate it. I stunned it long enough to run
and
get a glass and cardboard (it's really hard for me to kill things bigger
than 1/2 inch for some odd reason). By the time I got back to it, it was
recovered but I got it into the glass and took it outside. Back to
reading.
Minutes later, I see her with something else, though not large enough to
see. Go over and find a big old giant ant. Ants I can flush. Back to
reading. See Grant intently staring/pawing at something on desk. Itty
bitty
something bug. Gone the way of the ant. Guess I'd better shut the door
when
it gets dark. They can paw at millers through the glass. I'm not having a
bug convention again.

Karen

So far, I can still visit you, though!!!!

Stacey

"Marina" wrote in message
...

"Stacey" wrote

..marking Karen down as someone whom not to visit....


LOL! Stacey, your list of people to visit is getting quite short, isn't
it?

--
Marina

"Stacey" wrote
So far, I can still visit you, though!!!!


Yup, come on over. We don't have big spiders in Finland, we have only two
kinds of snake, of which only one is poisonous. No cockroaches, no other big
bugs. Moths we do have. And the dragonflies can get pretty big.

--
Marina