Tired Thursday chat

JackieG

I didn't pick it up with my bare hands!

So you had gloves on?  I would have had full body armor on and still used a long-handled object while praying the darn thing would climb on it so I could relocate it.  You still deserve a .  (damn gold star still doesn't show up.)

sharismom

So you had gloves on? 

I got an empty wastebasket and herded him into that.  It has slick sides so I figured he couldn't climb up it but just in case I put a newspaper over the opening.lol  He was probably glad to get away from Belle's insane barking.  When I put him over the fence he promptly climbed back under it, into the yard.  After the second time over the fence in a different spot, I didn't see him again.   

All of the Decorah eaglets have fledged.  I'm going to miss watching them.  They are still hanging around the nest tree but RRP will shut down the cam soon.  I read the other day that this is the most watched live cam ever on Ustream. 

Our city council acknowledged yesterday that their plan for a no-kill animal control facility won't happen by 2012.  Duh.  I told them that four years ago when they vowed it would happen. 

Jackie I am not afraid of spiders, like some people they are so good for the garden I usually just let them be.

Amanda I just saw your post from yesterday, almost made me tear up that Bev is such a smart boy!  BTW, I am missing pictures of Bev and Cher.

Hope everyone has a good day!  Ours started out with a bang and we are short handed today and the phone guys are back sooooo we will have them around changing out phones :)

calliecritturs

but rather the one also called a "huntsman" that is just big -- as in the body can be the size of a ping pong ball witih the whole thing can span a dinner plate if it gets a chance to grow that big -- not hugely venomous  -- just too danged big to get that close to ME

I'd never heard of a huntsman spider until my BFF told me her daughter, who lives in Deltona, found one and called her husband to come home and take care of it. I was smirking until I saw how freaking big they are. I'd have left the house and then called for help . I'm not sure I'll even have the courage to check out Jackie's little friend.

Count me in with the sleepy folks today. It still felt too warm to me last night and I can't sleep when it's warm and/or stuffy. I'm off tomorrow though and have a lot to get done or I'll leave feeling guilty.

I'm working out at Grace tomorrow and one of DH's sisters said she'd like to see the place and could she meet me out there. She's not the type to enjoy that kind of place or getting even a little dirty but I said "sure". Then his other sister emailed me that she wants to meet me out there tomorrow and get a tour of the place. This sister is very much the type that will love it and has already donated some items to them when her pot belly pig passed away. Unfortunately, the sisters don't get along and I don't want to worry about their issues nor do I want the day to be ruined trying to work around other's schedules. I guess it's my fault for always encouraging them to come check the place out.

We're only going to be 90ish today - yay!! I think the 2 100+ days really kicked my rear and the dogs aren't feeling too spunky either.

Has anyone heard from Megan? I think she lives in the vicinity of where the tornadoes hit yesterday in Kentucky. I hope she's okay. I was relieved to hear that all the horses were okay - whew!!

cakana

Unfortunately, the sisters don't get along and I don't want to worry about their issues nor do I want the day to be ruined trying to work around other's schedules. I guess it's my fault for always encouraging them to come check the place out.

Hardly your fault that they don't get along.  What are the odds that they'd both want to check out the place on the same day?  Really, it's not up to you to babysit.  Go do what you need to and enjoy yourself; let the adults work out their differences or go home.

sharismom

cakana

Unfortunately, the sisters don't get along and I don't want to worry about their issues nor do I want the day to be ruined trying to work around other's schedules. I guess it's my fault for always encouraging them to come check the place out.

Hardly your fault that they don't get along.  What are the odds that they'd both want to check out the place on the same day?  Really, it's not up to you to babysit.  Go do what you need to and enjoy yourself; let the adults work out their differences or go home.

Jackie, I think you are super brave. I approve of spiders in theory, and I loudly proclaim that spiders are welcome in my house as long as I never ever see them and they promise not to bite me, but I still would have been terrified relocating that hairy little bugger!

cakana

Has anyone heard from Megan? I think she lives in the vicinity of where the tornadoes hit yesterday in Kentucky. I hope she's okay. I was relieved to hear that all the horses were okay - whew!!

She's fine and posted on FB this morning.  Dawn lives very near the track and she was videotaping the storm as it passed.    She's fine too.

Procrastination activity #1: Cleaned the refrigerator. Took out all the shelves, drawers, door thingies, etc. That killed some time :-)

Am working from home today, so I really do need to get back to the tasks at hand. But, maybe the bathroom needs to be cleaned first...

Glad to hear the folks in Kentucky are OK. And the spider...glad it's OK and back outside, too.

glenmar

Going to be?  I'm already there!  LOL!  I like coming in early and getting finished early. 

The thought of that spider still gives me the heebe geebes

Total annoyance.  Going through some family stuff this week that would rather not share at the moment, but that's kinda irrelevant.  Anyway, I had to make a TON of calls today to take care of stuff and purposely did all the calls in a conference room because 1.  I didn't want to talk about it with others 2.  Didn't want the work gossip mill knowing this business and 3. just didn't want to talk about it more than I needed to.

Anyway, had to do a 10 second convo at my desk and I had barely hung up when the girl next to me runs over with her advice.  She didn't even know the whole story and just starting spurting out this and that not even trying to keep her voice down.  I am sooo annoyed.  In order to get her to shut up I basically had to tell her more than i wanted to.  She is such a f***ing busy body.  I am sure by the end of the day the whole damn GM headquarters will know and everyone will be coming by with there advice.

 P.S. Good thoughts for my mom tomorrow - she's having knee replacement surgery in the am. 

cakana

I'd never heard of a huntsman spider until my BFF told me her daughter, who lives in Deltona, found one and called her husband to come home and take care of it. I was smirking until I saw how freaking big they are.

Once upon a time (absolutely true story -- I'm only slightly ashamed)

Good Ole Aunt Callie sat on her Tuffett (er no -- was sitting in her Honda CRX with the window down) eating her Wendy burger lunch. 

Along came the spider (too close to the size of the steering wheel) and sat down beside her (beside her EAR on the top of the window sill) with half of it's legs curled IN and half of it's body showing and the rest on the TOP of the car.

good Ole Aunt Callie screamed bloody murder and threw her burger at said spider & missed. 

Said gonzo huge spider ran down the front window, down the side of the car and disappeared UNDER her car.

 The rest of the day was NOT a nursery rhyme.  Good ole Aunt Callie didn't stop shaking & stopped at 7-11 on her way back to work and bought a huge room fogger bomb, set it off IN THE CAR before I went back to work.  I was terrified the darned thing would crawl INTO the car from underneath.

It gave me nightmares for weeks.  I'd never seen a spider THAT big before.  But it was like 3" from my hand. 

That was when I decided my heart must be pretty good or I'd have been a dead woman. 

I've heard all about how benign they are ... and I've had many more encounters with them in the last 20 years (I was about 35 then).  Rarely do critturs unnerve me but THAT one did.  He was as big as a dinner plate (I refuse to think of female spiders and eggs, ok?) and something THAT big does not need me to defend it. 

Today I can laugh -- but for weeks after I shook uncontrollably just getting INTO that poor CRX.  It was my favorite car ever ... but dang ...

I could handle the tarantula - really I could. 

The burger I threw made a real mess of the ceiling of my car tho *sigh* LOL

Callie, that just paints the funniest picture ... you throwing your burger at the spider.  See, I would have just pulled out the onion and threw that at him.

Our little mini heat wave seems to have dissipated.  Thank doG.  I woke up about 5:00 a.m. and actually felt chilly, so I turned the ceiling fan down to medium and pulled up a light blanket.

Cathy, I agree with the others.  You don't need to be a baby sitter or a referee for two adult women.  Honestly, I just don't under the whole sisters not getting along thing. I realize that sisters can have completely different personalities and likes/dislikes, but come on.  Life is too short not to get along with your own sister.

Joyce

Oh, Paige, I totally get that I'm just enormously lucky during the off season to set my own hours, and have a boss who simply doesn't care.

Joyce, honestly, I don't like my eldest sister.  She despised me from the second I was born and Dad referred to me as "the most beautiful baby" he'd ever seen.  When I was two, she locked me in an old fashioned shipping trunk and left me in the hayloft of my grandparents barn....and over the years there have been more and more lovely actions.  I honestly have tried everything I know to try and she despises me and doesn't care who knows it, so why bother?

(((lisa)))  Now go and knock that buttinski into next week with the 2 x 4.  Geez, some people just have nothing better to do than stick their noses into other's business. 

Cathy, sorry you're SIL's don't get along and you might get hit in the crossfire.  Good advice from Tina and Courtney.  I'd probably just meet them there and then disappear but I guess that wouldn't be the mature thing to do. lol

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Callie, that just paints the funniest picture ... you throwing your burger at the spider. 

Today I *can* laugh and do.  Was hoping to at least make folks laugh - I've seen full grown men quail at the sight of one of those big boys.