Why is it that every year around labor day weekend we find something nightmarish on our property?!? Last year, it was the hornets’ nest. This year? A gigantic spider that they must have misplaced while filming Arachnophobia 2… It’s living in the bushes near the pool, and I almost walked into it while trying to water the peppers on the other side of the fence. There is nothing in this world that I fear more than spiders, except maybe gigantic spiders. Anyway, a brief visit to google helped me figure out that it’s probably an argiope aurantia, which is not poisonous. Like I care. It had better be gone before I get home, or I’m going to find someone braver than me to evict it. In the meantime, I’m going to sit here in my safe, non-spider-infested office and try to forget about creepy-crawly things.
