Comments on: Shelob is dead, but Ike rages on

By: violetismycolor

violetismycolor — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:05:47 +0000

Black widows scare me…and I’ve found them in my garage. Kind of creeps me out to put on my wellies. I shake them and stomp on them to try to make sure there’s nobody hiding in there. (Shivers at the thought…)

By: Creechman

Creechman — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:05:37 +0000

Hurricanes suck.

Sincerely,

Birds.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:04:19 +0000

You know, I think you and I must have matching yards, spiders and all. I figure if it’s green, it’s adding to the oxygen level of the air and hiding the brown dirt. So it’s a weed…from a distance, who can tell? I keep it cut back to a level where I can see the cats as they walk across the yard and that’s good enough for me. Really must do something about the black widows, though. They are getting quite bold. And in the heat it’s all I can do to keep the ornamental plants from dying. Winter, where art thou??

By: cassie-b

cassie-b — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:19:36 +0000

I stay indoors the hottest parts of the summer as well – same thing – water to keep things from dying, picking some garden veggies, and then back indoors. We’ve had good weather for a couple of weeks, but today they’re predicting 93 degrees and high humidity. I took a nice long walk early this morning, and now I’ll find thinks to keep myself amused for the rest of the day out of the hot weather.

We had lizards when we lived in South Carolina. They’re fun to watch.

I’m glad Tara is doing well after her surgery. She is a cutie.

Cas
I think of you and your beautiful dog often.

By: Eric Mayer

Eric Mayer — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:02:01 +0000

When I was out mowing last week there seemed to be a lot of spiders in the grass but luckily they were small and not black widows. I must say, I would love to have lizards in the yard. I don’t know if there are lizards around these parts. There used to be red spotted (my description) newts, albeit I think they were rare. I spotted them out in the woods, by creeks, two or three times. I used to see plenty of toads, but not lately. Whether it is just the particular place I’m in is inhospitable or whether they aren’t generally around so much I can’t say. No gophers either but we do have a woodchuck, kind of a giant gopher. But since we don’t grow anything we don’t mind.