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Saturday October 21, 2006 at 04:00 pm
I love fall. As a child I would stand in the middle of our street (aptly named Crescent Ave….now I live in Crescent City, 400 miles away from Lodi). The warm wind blew the leaves down the street. On a really blustery day I donned my skates, stood in the street with a big piece of cardboard held high above my head and let the wind push me down the road as the leaves chased me. I now know the neighbors thought I was weird, my Mother probably knew I was strange but who cared, it was Autumn, my favorite season.
Up here on the Pacific Northwest Coast fall is a bit different. There is still a warm wind occasionally but the trees do not drop their leaves, just redwood needles. There are beautiful sunrises and spiders. Spiders you say? Yup big, honkin spiders.
The spiders have created a bit of a problem for my youngest daughter. She is afraid of them, and won’t walk anywhere where they have made a web.
She cannot feed the rabbit because there is a spider living above his cage.
She will not walk out to the car by the side garage door because, there is a spider in the rose bushes.
She will not go out the back door to the yard because there is a spider.
As of this morning she won’t go in the kitchen because…you guessed it, there is a spider making his web above the stove. The picture is blury because he was traveling kinda fast.
But, there are no spiders in the sun room where, as you can see, I’ve hung my recently dyed yarn waiting to make socks.
On a side note….I love the lavender and purple colors…I’ve run out of color combinations to try and this customer gave me her order with colors so I’ve been having fun trying new things and actually like some of them. I’ll dye some more and you’ll see them up on ETSY for sale in the next couple of weeks.
So that means we can only go out the front deck door, through the garage and out the side garage door, around the side of the house to the car in the front drive.
Why, you may ask, don’t I just kill the spiders and make all our lives much easier…Well…they actually serve a purpose. My neighbor has all these stumps from trees he’s cut down in the past and he burns his trash on them every morning (which is illegal because it is no burning but he does it anyway, including plastic and anything from the house….it stinks up the neighborhood and makes my lungs feel just great!). Those spider webs trap all the flying termites that live in those stumps and POUR out after he burns probably because he has warmed up their homes and now they feel the need to live long and prosper in someone elses yard. Therefore, when looking out the windows we have spider webs with termites stuggling to get loose but just getting more tangled up. The spiders wait until they are totally wrapped up in web and pounce. It is reality TV at it’s best!
As soon as the rains come all those spiders will skeedaddle somewhere and I’ll wash the windows and take down the webs. But until then let’s hope the front door stays clear or KT will never leave the house.