This morning there was a long, diagonal spider web in my kitchen, trailing three feet or more from a corner to a lamp on my table.


I’ve never seen a spider make a web like that. I’ve seen webs like that before, but I’ve never sat and watched a spider spin one.


I have to wonder…does the spider look out, pick a spot, and then crawl across the gap on the floor, trailing a too-long web behind, then climb up to the spot it saw, anchor the web, and take in the slack…


Or does it just jump the gap?

Either option worries me, because a spider seeing three feet away is like me staring at footprints on the moon.

12 thoughts on “

  1. Remind me to find an old house filled with cobwebs, then.  I’ma run around in it screaming like a little girl and giggling like a madman. 

    TAKE THAT, BABIES!

  2. You can’t really help the “screaming like a little girl part”, but I applaud your enthusiasm. 

    I hates spiders.  Hates.

  3. I hate spiders. Creepy Crawly little freaks!

    I had a great time with you and Morgan. lol. Now Pat…he’s another story. He was WAY too involved with my owl planter. Eeek. It was eery and a little unnerving. But Morgan liked my parrot-porn so it’s all good.

  4. if you walk through a spider web and the spider kills a baby, theoretically (yesyes i know i cannot spell and have no idea if that was spelled right), wouldnt you be the one doing the killing?

    Maybe the spider is your master and you are a robot and fulfilling its desires of ridding the human race.

    or maybe i should stop renting scary movies…

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