My Worst Nightmare

This week was another week of change. Larry moved out on Wednesday. He is back in Michigan. It was a sad day. I have worked with Larry for about nine years and live with him now for about a year. It will be different not working with Larry but it will be nice to have the house to ourselves for a little bit. Nora is also back in Michigan for the week. She had to go back for work. She will go back once a month for the next few months. Then we will see what happens for her work. OK a little background if you did not know I am not particularly fond of spiders. I usually cry like a 6 year old girl and call for Nora to take the bad monster away. But on the other hand spiders seem to be very fond of me. They hunt me down and attack me without mercy.

With that said let me set the stage for yesterday morning. I wake up early to see if I can get into work faster if I leave early. Everything is fine at this point. I am on track. Life is good. Now I am opening the front door when a dark shadow scoots under the door. Now instantly my mind raises with some questions. What could it be? Should I look at it? What if it is what I think it is? Where is Nora? Oh crap she is in Michigan! What am I going to do? Shut the door you fool!!!! My mind cries! So I slam the door closed and run for the bug spray. I race back to the door after I get the spray because I do not want this terror of the desert to call for reinforcements. I open the door with my foot just to put some distance between me and the porch monster. As the door slowly opens this huge black spider is looking at me. It looks into my soul and tells me how it is going to eat me in my sleep. So I spray it and spray it. It is either going to be killed by the chemicals or it is going to drown. It was me or him. In war you take no prisoners and believe me this is a war. A long standing war between me and the arachnid family!

Now at this point my hand hurts from pulling the spray trigger so much. I drop the sprayer on the porch close and lock the door with one eye glue to this beast. After locking up the house I get to the car as fast as I can. All day long I think about getting home to verify the kill. There is no kill until a body is found. Now I finally make it home from work and slowly walk up the porch and see the body. It is dead. I won this time. However the stakes are getting raised. They are starting to send in the big guns. This was no ordinarily spider. This was a Black Widow Spider. I believe I was lucky to come away with my life! A picture of this beast is attach. Now for those of you of the faint of heart please look away. For everyone else if you look close enough you can see the red hour glass on the under belly. I must say that this did make for an interesting morning yesterday. The body of the spider is still on the porch waiting for Nora to come and get it:)