I've put my hand into a gardening glove and found a dead cockroach, too. I guess that's better than a live one? And spiders, ick! Glad you had a second pair of gloves, and how lovely to spend a productive afternoon in the garden! We had some rain overnight and I guess at some point I'm going to have to do some weeding and lawn-mowing...
At least a live one would crawl out again, I hope! I have several pais of gardening gloves, partially due to work occasionally having a freebie, mosty because I justify it to myself at the nursery with the 'But I spend so much time looking for a pair, a spare would be grand!'
I was nearly washed out, but the storm hit and then moved on! Hurrah! And I mowed the lawn yesterday, so now it looks like lawn again, instead of the collection of weeds I know to be hiding in there.
No voting for you, mod lady! Though since no-one seems to be hazarding a guess, you could yet win by default ;-) Have you ever had Violet Crumble? It's less good than it ws when I moved here, but still rather fine!
Frankly I've never even heard of violet crumble. You know us Americans...we stick to the boring things like apple crisp *an apple dessert with a cinnamon/sugary topping* and peach cobblers.
And I'm a bit sad at the lack of guesses in general. But hoping it will pick up. I should offer something on my journal if anyone guesses mine. No one EVER guesses mine. :P
ETA: and now I am embarrassed. In the US crumbles/cobblers/crisps are baked things. Apple Crumble
When we moved to Aus people warned us about the shoe thing but no one said anything about checking your pegs on the washing line for spiders. Didn't take long to learn.
Pegs, chairs, everybloodywhere ... I have at least trained the BFS* orb weavers in the garden to go across spaces that will not involve me receiving face hugs. Because no-one wants that.
* Big Furry, Friendly or Fucking depending on temperment and position Spider.
Well, as I was reading one fic thought 'omg brammers wrote this, I'm sure of it!' but wasn't sure you were even writing for the fest. Now do you think I can remember which one it was? Nooooooo! I have read too many of them, now I should go back and find it. Good thing I am on holidays and have time.
As for the bug/arachnid varieties... I once thonged a spider running across my lounge room and it promptly exploded into a million babies. The sound out my mouth was not human! Morbid fear of spiders.
Oh bloody hell! Was it a wolf spider? We camped at a place infested by them and were all coping with them (they can make you sick, but are actually calm lest roused, so we did no rousing) until one ran up my friend's leg and, as she said, 'I looked down and there were MILLIONS OF EYES!!!!'
No, thank god, it was just a common brown house spider....I think. It looked like it anyway, but then minus a million babies, it was a lot smaller and could have been anything! Not a redback though, those generally live outside.
Those wolf spiders are huge! I can only imagine my terror seeing millions of eyes as well as those massive things! Did it bite? I remember camping somewhere in Northern Vic where there was an infestation of massive huntsman spiders. It was okay until we found one on the front of the car hanging by inches (Inches!!!) over top and bottom edges of the front bumper bar. That freaked me out a lot!
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I've put my hand into a gardening glove and found a dead cockroach, too. I guess that's better than a live one? And spiders, ick! Glad you had a second pair of gloves, and how lovely to spend a productive afternoon in the garden! We had some rain overnight and I guess at some point I'm going to have to do some weeding and lawn-mowing...
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I was nearly washed out, but the storm hit and then moved on! Hurrah! And I mowed the lawn yesterday, so now it looks like lawn again, instead of the collection of weeds I know to be hiding in there.
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I was used to up-ending my chore boots to make sure nothing was inside (I once had a toad roll out of one!), but not gloves. Yuck!
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I suppose it's unfair if I vote - but bugger all, a violet crumble has me intrigued. ♥
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And I'm a bit sad at the lack of guesses in general. But hoping it will pick up. I should offer something on my journal if anyone guesses mine. No one EVER guesses mine. :P
ETA: and now I am embarrassed. In the US crumbles/cobblers/crisps are baked things.
Apple Crumble
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* Big Furry, Friendly or Fucking depending on temperment and position Spider.
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As for the bug/arachnid varieties... I once thonged a spider running across my lounge room and it promptly exploded into a million babies. The sound out my mouth was not human! Morbid fear of spiders.
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Those wolf spiders are huge! I can only imagine my terror seeing millions of eyes as well as those massive things! Did it bite? I remember camping somewhere in Northern Vic where there was an infestation of massive huntsman spiders. It was okay until we found one on the front of the car hanging by inches (Inches!!!) over top and bottom edges of the front bumper bar. That freaked me out a lot!
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