Do you have arachnophobia?  Halloween  is coming & it’s spider season.

Do you have arachnophobia? 

Halloween  is coming & it’s spider season. There seems to be a ton of them everywhere!

Last week @carole.m.hargrave posted a spider️ & I thought of it last night. There was a pretty big spider (when I was a kid we called them “daddy longlegs”) walking around in my bathtub.  I cupped him in my hands & put him in a small container on the windowsill while I drew a bath.

I read somewhere there is nothing worse than picking up an indoor spider & putting it outside. ️ It’s like a death sentence!  Anyhow, I left the room & when I came back, OMG, the spider was floating in the water!  It crawled out of the cup on the windowsill & went back into the bathtub filling with water . Did it have a death wish?! ☠️

I scooped it up & gently set it on a tissue & again left it on the windowsill. I gently blew on it to see if it was alive. ️ (It’s not like you can give a spider CPR!) It seemed drier. I thought I saw a small twitch but I assumed it was a goner. ⚰️ After my bath I checked on it. Still no movement.  Blew on it again. Nothing. ‍♀️

But one thing I noticed—it didn’t look all crunched up like spiders sometimes look when they’re really dead. 

The next day  I was doing my morning routine & noticed the tissue on the windowsill. The spider was GONE! Yay! I think he made it! 

It turns out spiders are around all year but @seaclarridge of the @seattletimes says right now they’re out searching for mates  & that’s why we see many more of them.

Do you have a fear of spiders or bugs? ️
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NEWS: Today was Sansei Lunch Club. So great to see my 3 long-time friends! ❤️ Also, I’m in the midst of signing & packing books going to Indiegogo supporters of #BloggingOnInstagram. Many have been shipped & few are being hand delivered. Today I dropped off books to Laura, George, Dave & Carol, Doug & Mike O.! More coming! [Book link is in my bio.]
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PHOTOS from Dave & Carol’s garden: #Autumntrees #japaneseanemone #fallenleaves. And another #bathtubspider! #spidersofinstagram #spiderseason #arachnophobia
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