Re: Monday Night Dinner? 6/02/2025

On 6/7/2025 5:18 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-06-07, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 2025-06-06, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:
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We have huntsman spiders but they're called "cane spiders" on this rock.
Americans aren't used to seeing big spiders so visitors are totally
terrified of them. The good news is that I haven't seen a cane spider or
centipedes around here in ages. My guess is that the chickens have wiped
them out. That's fine with me.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaqVS9yC7hE

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If that's a huntsman spider, it looks like a baby tarantula. I used to
let tarantulas crawl up my arm to impress my friends. The hardest part
is just to find them. They cross Nevada roads in the Fall.
Their bite is said to be akin to a bee sting, but my friends didn't know
that. Let them crawl on your arm. Don't monkey with them while they're
doing that. Everybody says "Wow!" when you're done.
Try it the next time you find a tarantula.

 The only place I'm likely to find a tarantula is a pet store.
 

One of my first grade teachers had a tarantula as a pet.  We lived in California at the time.  When it died she had it cast in clear Lucite (or something similar) and kept it on her desk as a paper weight.  I always thought that was rather creepy.
Jill