Hey skunky, I think the mouse is still hanging around. Saw what loooked like him yesterday sitting outside my window looking at me.
Maybe I should send him to Mermy's to hunt down the daddy long legs.
:roll:
I've been bitten a few times by spiders and it isn't pleasant.
. I freaked out. I was maybe 14 yrs old, and all alone on the farm, reading through the encyclopedia trying to determine if it was a Brown Recluse, because when I felt the bite, I thought it was a sticker, and went to get it out of my foot, only to see a small brown colored spider. The other bites which I've had came silently in the night while camping, with the spiders leaving nothing more than their fang marks and bruised, sore skin and muscle, a little more painful than the after affects of getting a Tetnus shot.Yes, but they are too much work for the amount of meat you get, kind of like crabs.
Rapunz had a close encounter with a big Florida wolf spider this morning. BDarg, you got off the hook cuz I was here
wolf spiders are so creepy! they have meat on their bones! and can be huge! 
I had a very close encounter years ago in Gainesville when we lived in our first tiny "love shack" apartment. very early in the morning, got out of the shower, grabbed my towel which had a big giant wolf spider nestled inside it, started to dry off and it ran down my entire body. it was off before I saw it clearly. talk about screaming my head off for several minutes, scaring the crap out of kurt. (I had never seen such a spider so it was really a shock)
apparently there was a nest living in the attic.
Toots, that is something that I don't think I could ever get over. I hope it never happens to me. I think I'm going to thoroughly shake my towels now . . . EWWWWWW!!.
idontno: So they caught it anyway to let a 4 year old check it out??? 
This is a four year old who is curious to know everything, sticking his hands into holes in trees :shock: and down into buckets of live crabs, etc.). Mom, became a little alarmed, so I showed my nephew the joys of releasing the animals back into the wild (far away from mom's house) after observing them and taking some notes about what he observed). Suddenly, he wanted to release the lizards and ants which he caught and placed in other observation boxes. :funn: It was kind of cute. 
He also learned the importance of learning about the potential dangers of animals. ;-) We didn't dare let his mother find out.:nono1: She was really upset with me when she found out that I let him touch a live alligator on his last visit. Don't want to tell mommy everything, now do we.I am reminded of the last time I visited my mom, who was keeping her grandson, who just turned four years old at the time. He was showing me his bug observatory, which is a plastic box with a hole in the top so that you can drop bugs into. It has air vents and a magnifying glass on top for observing the critters you catch. No biggy, right. Well, I look inside and underneath the plastic tree in the box, I see a Brown Recluse Spider (a real one). Since my mom hates bugs, especially spiders, I asked her if she new that my nephew had captured a Brown Recluse which was in the observation box. She told me that they had caught a spider the night before and put it in the box, but the box was supposed to be outside. :funn: She also told me that she thought it might be a Brown Recluse, but wasn't sure.
