So what do you think of this little, er big, beauty?

I got woken up at 2am the other morning by no4 daughter, it was by her head on the wall next to her bed. She spent the rest of the night in my bed and we dealt with it in the morning - after I took photos.

Now the only editing done was to "move" it closer to the door frame I kept in the pic to show the size - I wasn't about to stick a ruler up next to it!!!!! OR pick it up and move it closer to the wall, so next best thing, copy and paste it in the photo.

It was so big it wouldn't suck up the vacuum hose. Ever seen a spider body just fit up the hose and the legs grip the outside so it can't go up?? Well picture when you try and drag a kid off to do something they don't want to - like clean a room, or do the dishes. You know how they hang on to door jambs and you got to prise them off so they grab another and by the time u get one arm off another has purchase, as well as a foot and it seems they have an extra set of arms like an octopus so it almost takes two of you to pull limbs off the doors and keep them that way???? Well that was what the spider did, except I wasn't about to touch it. Eventually it gave up and disappeared up the hose and into the water bowl of my rainbow vac. Not before time too - talk about a massive case of the heeby jeebies!!!


On another note I found a MUCH nicer beastie when cleaning up in the yard. I wish I had found it a couple of days ago and I could have fed the spider to it (ugh I shudder at the thought of that spider still). Anyway I was picking up bits of board to throw in the trailer when a head and long scaley body came out at me. After the initial prerequisite heart attack I noticed it had legs and a lovely blue tongue. It climbed over my foot, tasting it with its tongue and then into the weeds I have so carefully cultivated under the orange tree (ok, so I didn't cultivate them - the only things I grow with any semblance of success is weeds).



Just in case you forgot.......