Re: Pineapple cheese refrigerator pie recipe

On 11/2/2024 1:16 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-02 10:06 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

On 11/2/2024 9:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-02 9:17 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

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One night he was headed home from an afternoon shift and popped in the ER where we was treated by a doctor who had interned in an area where brown recluse spiders live. He had surgery for it the next day. They had to scoop out the flesh and then pull his wound closed. The massive scar tissue required massage for months. It's all healed up now but he has a very large and very ugly scar there now.
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As your son found out, a bite from a spider is not something to be ignored.  I don't let spiders hang out in my house.  There are a few little harmless garden spiders that find their way in; I pick them up and toss them outside.  But sorry (songbird) I'll spray pesticides all over the exterior to keep them from coming inside my house.

 Spider bites are the sort of thing we worry about here. Most spiders are harmless and those that do bite are so mild they are little more than a distraction. That's why my son didn't worry about it at the time. By the time he got him it was like a small blister. He popped it and cleaned it out but it just kept getting wider and deeper. By the time he went to the hospital it was about the diameter of a quarter and about 1/8th inch deep. Apparently those things have a necrotizing venom that eats away at the flesh on top and just keeps working its way down.
 One advantage to having (non venomous) spiders in the house is that they trap and eat annoying insects like flies, mosquitoes and moths.
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I wish they were big enough to deal with the more invasive stink bugs that have been thriving here for the past few years.
 

I don't recall if I posted the pic of the banana spider I had in the bushes out front a few months ago.  I didn't keep the photo.  They are non-venomous but if you try to grab one they will bite.  They get pretty big:
https://hgic.clemson.edu/banana-spiders/
Don't want one inside the house!
Jill