… those are the only options in my mind when I find a monster in my bed!!
I was straightening up my bed when I turned over my body pillow and found the BIGGEST sPiDeR Ive ever found in my house!
Now, I’m not usually afraid of spiders. I mean I don’t want them touching me and for sure they can’t be living in my house. But this thing was so massive and scary all I could do was scream at the shocking sight of it. Josie and Charlie came running (I was currently on the phone with dad who was on his way home from work). Josie, my once again, brave girl… trapped it in a jar and we took it outside on the porch. I didn’t want to release it until I could research what kind it was. Because if it was poisonous, I’d never be able to sleep in my bed again. Seriously, I’d have to move or burn it all down and destroy every web, nest, egg sack, and relative of this 8 legged beast!
Gratefully, I discovered... with several cross searches and extensive verification... that this was only a common house spider known as the American Grass Spider. Happily relieved it’s not a Brown Recluse (I have 2nd hand PTSD from Leslie Sandgren’s horrific experience with those evil arachnids). The Grass spider’s bite is the same threat and irritation as a mosquito. Ok, good. I can sleep again… after I strip my sheets, vacuum all around my room and spray bug killer on every nook & cranny!!
I figured I should release it outside, but Perry had his own plan: he took the jar from me and took it to the deck. Then he shot inside the jar with the A-Salt rifle until it was dead. I asked him to stop because it isn’t fair to shoot a “fish in a barrel”. But the deed was done. I feel a little bad, but not so bad that I won’t sleep tonight. In fact I’ll probably sleep better. At least I would have, right up until dad said “But now it’s spider family will seek their revenge and ascend on our house!”
Gee. Thanks, honey. :(
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