Friday, June 30, 2006

Widow Shining

I was out at the pool the other night, floating around happily in the dark. The raft started heading toward one of the rock islands in the pool area. The rock islands are supposed to have nice water falls coming down off of them, but the apartment complex is too cheap to turn them on. Or maybe they're broken and the apartment complex is too lazy to fix them. I don't know. Anyway, the raft was heading towards the island, headfirst. I turned around, and there was a huge black widow hanging out over the water in a nice big web. After getting out of the pool, I made P&AF come back down to the pool with me to verify that it was, indeed a black widow. We brought a flashlight and the camera. We snapped a few photos. I should be posting one, but I'm currently just getting my computer back on track--I recently deleted a couple vital parts of the operating system in an attempt to cure a virus---and I haven't gotten my camera hooked up again yet. Anyway, I've told a few people here about the experience, but they don't seem to think it's overly unusual. I was even going to tell the apartment complex to get their pest control going. I guess it isn't that big of a deal though.

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