Tonight Tilly is my hero

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 08-21-2002, 04:58 PM

I don't particularly like spiders, but I'm not afraid of them either. If I see one around I'll just ignore it - until it starts coming my way.

When I lived in Green Bay I had a lot of small spiders in my house and Tubby loved them. Kept him quite entertained. I'd come home and see him looking up at the ceiling. There would be nothing there and I thought he had lost it

but an hour or two later (yes, he was still sitting there) I'd finally see something crawling on the wall way high up by the ceiling. We don't have too many these days - poor Tubby.

I've had a spider living in the outside mirror on my car for about the last week or so. He's a big one, maybe about an inch long total, and has some red legs. He's really kind of creepy looking, but I don't have the heart to kill him. Everynight he builds a spiderweb between my car and Terry's car. Just about every morning I walk through it (

& ick). And it seems like what the spider does then is go about collecting the part of the web that is left hanging on my car. I first noticed him one morning when I was on the highway, going about 65 or so and he was curled up in a ball, hanging on to one little strand of the web, and flopping in the breeze. Thank goodness I had to slow down (traffic - ugh!) and he could collect his wits and his web and head into the mirror. I was really surprised when I came out the next morning and there was the web again. I didn't know if he was there or not, but sure enough he came to collect the broken web - hung on for dear life again - and this has been going on for about a week now. One of these days I'm going to get him somehow and put him on a tree or a bush or something so I don't have to wreck all his hard work every morning. Poor thing. Works so hard and I walk right through it. Some mornings I've remembered (who says the memory is the first thing to go

) and carefully disconnected the ends from Terry's car so I don't wreck the whole thing.

I know, call me weird but he works so hard I just don't have the heart to kill him. And this one is big too, so I don't think I'd let Tubby at him either.

**Pam** · 08-21-2002, 07:56 PM

Originally posted by lynnestankard
must admit walking into a web in the dark is a horrible - so sticky!!lynne

Lynne I have to agree with you here!! When I was young and lived at home we had two huge evergreens, one on each side of the front door. Occasionally I would come home in the dark and walk through a web. It almost made me insane!! I HATE THAT FEELING!! I would come screaming into the house and ask whoever was home if the spider was on me. Just thinking about it now gives me the creeps.

A couple of years ago my son woke up one morning covered with welts on his body and his eyes were all puffy and swollen shut. We went to the ER and they felt it either was a food reaction or a spider bite. Since he hadn't eaten anything unusual the night before they settled on the spider bite theory. GAG!!!!!!!!!!!

**toughCookie** · 08-22-2002, 09:46 PM

I don't know if I would become that terrified, but it depends on the kind of spider... a big one might just make me react the same way! I DO react like that if I see a scorpion in the house, I really freak out, and am not able to rest til I get it with the vacuum hose! then I put the vacuum on the porch til later that day or if it is night, til the morning! they give me the creeps bigtime!

last week, I checked on the cats that were on the enclosed porch, and there was Emma with a spider in her mouth! eeeww!
she seemed pretty happy about it though!

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 08-23-2002, 04:23 PM

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
I've had a spider living in the outside mirror on my car for about the last week or so.

No spiderweb this morning.

I think maybe he got rained out since we got quite the deluge yesterday. Poor guy. It was still quite wet this morning, so hopefully he was just hanging out - drying out and he'll be back tomorrow. Even though he's a spider, I hope he's ok.

**NoahsMommy** · 08-23-2002, 06:08 PM

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom

No spiderweb this morning. I think maybe he got rained out since we got quite the deluge yesterday. Poor guy. It was still quite wet this morning, so hopefully he was just hanging out - drying out and he'll be back tomorrow. Even though he's a spider, I hope he's ok.

You are very kind! That spider would have seen a HUGE shower of Raid if I saw him....that is, if I could bear to get that close. I once had a spider in my car and I had to have it detailed because I wouldn't get back in it otherwise.

I know, I know...this may be why my husband calls me "Princess".

To this day, my husband isn't allowed to leave a car with the windows down while parked...SPIDERS!!

**NoahsMommy** · 08-26-2002, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
I've had a spider living in the outside mirror on my car for about the last week or so. He's a big one, maybe about an inch long total, and has some red legs. He's really kind of creepy looking, but I don't have the heart to kill him.

I was walking up the steps to our building after lunch and saw "your" spider! It was just like the one you had in your mirror! I had to come tell you!

I was good, I left it there!

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 08-29-2002, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by NoahsMommy

I was walking up the steps to our building after lunch and saw "your" spider! It was just like the one you had in your mirror! I had to come tell you!

I was good, I left it there!

Thanks!

I bet you made a wiiiiiiiide path around it though.

Tubby was out in the garage last Friday night. He was just sitting in his favorite spot when all of a sudden he gets those big "what's that" eyes. I tell him it's nothing, but he gets up and runs over by one of the cars....well, it's a long story, and I got some great pictures, so I'll save the rest until I get a chance to post the whole story with pics.