I love the spider stories. We've had a season of activity in my backyard; one that spun her web nightly, in the morning leaving just one long guy from the garage to the porch roof for the next night's work. She has disappeared--the first day it really felt like fall around here she was gone from her little corner where she looked tucked in like a gob of chewing gum during the day. Last week there were two nights when another smaller spider, no doubt the male, hung around, then vanished. A few weeks ago I accidentally knocked her down one night and she found her way back home by morning.

We lost a tarantula--accidentally killed when attempting to move her from the street in front of the house after she hiked across the house and the front yard. No good deed goes unpunished, they say. That's the case here--she might have made it out of the street by herself, even with her meandering path, but didn't survive the gentle toss from the end of a stick trying to get her onto the neighbor's grass. :(

Get better soon, Giac!

SRS