08.25.2009 We have Spiders

It is our ongoing problem. We have big, nasty, ugly spiders. Hobo spiders to be exact. They are poisonous and can make your skin decompose and fall off if you get bitten. Makes you wanna live here huh? We mostly find them in the garage - and our basement. They LOVE our basement. We get sprayed at least twice a year. Not this year though, times have been tight. I have been packing. I didn't want to pay since we weren't going to be in the house. That is until i saw THIS guy.

Bubba came running into my room and said he saw a tarantula. We don't have those so i asked him why he thought that? He said it was a "really, really, big spider". So i am thinking Cat Spider. It's funny... i used to be Petrified of all spiders. Now it is just the scary, Hobo spiders. So Cat Spiders are big and pretty compared to Hobo's. So i casually walk down the stairs and see it. It is NOT a Cat Spider. It is a FRICKIN HUMONGOUS HOBO SPIDER. Biggest I've ever seen. Definately worthy of the "tarantula" moniker.

Let's just say i called the Bug-Off people an hour later (as soon as they opened actually) and 2 days later they were at my house. Best $70.00 i ever spent.



Erick was awakened by my frantic call to his cell phone, asking him to wake up and come kill it. After some strategizing we came up with a plan. He is dead. The spider that is. The spider is dead.