#bathroom spiders

[mumblelard]

may all your flies be juicy or happy aphelion bathroom guardian spider cousin

on friday, i saw the new native shrubs fallie planted outside his front window, blueberries, beautyberries, and a shrubby st. john's wort. he's slowly digging out the privet and english ivy around his house and replacing them with stuff from the native plant rescues where he volunteers. i'm looking forward to watching how it changes over the months and years

he and i sat for a while and ate faux-fil-a, drank a fruit punch four loko out of hurricane glasses with little umbrellas, and shared our stories from the week

i've lost the ability to appreciate the spectacle of the fireworks. maybe it will come back if i don't hold on too tightly. probably, i will be ok either way

we had thousands of lightning strikes in the area on saturday night. i woke up to find boba tucked hard against my pillow. when she was little she slept there every night, but she outgrew it years ago

i'm trying to stop using some words that mean too many things. words that've grown broad i can't be sure what other people are hearing, so diluted, they've lost all taste. just a handful of words. it's nothing serious, just a game, or maybe an experiment. watching what words fill the gaps

we walked up stone mountain early sunday morning. we had company, unaccustomed to the climb, so we went much slower than i usually would. i wandered all around while they rested on the way, and i got to notice things i hadn't seen since the kids were little. it was a nice morning

last night, i dreamt that there was a delivery man on the street in front of the house. he needed the neighbor's signature before he could leave, but the neighbor was missing. some people thought the neighbor was just out taking a walk, but others thought maybe in the hospital, speech stolen by a stroke, or maybe in europe on business. after a few days the delivery man looked ragged from sleeping on the ground outside his van. i emptied out the garage and built him a little room. when it was done he laid down on the little bed in the little room, went to sleep, and in the dream at least, he never woke up

[lost-at-thecrossroads]

Really frustrating that I can't seem to add videos to reblogs, so I had to make a whole new post for this. Only 3 people liked the post about my bathroom spiders, but I don't care lol. I kinda wanna tag them so I can find them easily because I think it's cool so many different species show up in there.

Spider tax below cut.

Woodlouse Spider

Crab spider (picture isn't that great, Ik)

And my personal favourite,

Mama Orb Weaver & her egg sac 🖤

These were all identified by my friend who knows a lot more about invertebrates than me, but if anyone can identify which specific species, wants to share cool spider pics or just feels like rambling about spiders here go ahead 👀

[my-wordy-brain]

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The spiders in the bathroom. They’re watching you. They’re concerned about your digestive health

[halgorithmic]

Hate when bathroom spiders start crawling towards me tryna make me part of their web like?? Watch yourself

[may-or-may-not-be-me]

Entered a symbiotic relationship with my bathroom spider (she gets to live and I get to not be crushed by the guilt of killing an innocent spider)

[kawaiiipotatoooo-blog]

Lmao xD That gun is the man >w<

[sunshineandteddybears]

The Gender of Bathroom Spiders

I’m taking a shower when all of a sudden I spy a huge spider on my bathroom ceiling. It wasn’t as if the body itself was huge, just it had long legs. Obviously not a Daddy Longlegs (those aren’t actually spiders) but it was freaky and kind of creepy becuase why is it there? And I see it dangling on some kind of web line and I look at it saying, out loud, “Please don’t come any closer Mr. Spider. Or Ms. Or whatever, I don’t really know your sex or gender. Just, please stay up there. Don’t come any closer. I have a detachable showerhead and I’m not afraid to use it.” I say this. Out loud. And then the spider moves. Not closer, thank God. But across the ceiling on the web line. I don’t take my eyes off of them, watching as they occasionally have a leg slip and need to catch themselves. Occasionally speaking to it “Stay up there. Please stay up there. I’m watching you.” Finally I can’t take it anymore and I turn the shower off, dry off, and get out of the shower. Never taking my eyes off of the spider. “This is creepy, why are you even in here while I’m showering?” I get no answer of course. And I still don’t know what the spider’s gender is.

[justdiarythoughts]

So I Guess Wolf Spiders Jump

I was in the bathroom and I noticed a wolf spider climbing up the wall. I yelled to get the attention of my mom who immediately urged me to let her in. I was taking my time "I'm not in too much of a hurry, wolf spiders aren't known for jumping." And AS SOON AS I SAID THAT IT JUMPED AT ME AND I STILL CAN'T FIND IT.