Today on the Smellcast: Little Vignettes… scenes from the past two weeks. Please to enjoy. “It’s still twitching…” HARRR! Poor lil’ spider…
Here’s my new-found swampy-frog pond place near my hidey-hole apartment.
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This is the old tree I rather heroically felled in a rather butch fashion.
The spider with which I was in a life and death struggle!
The crab apple trees in front of my parental unit’s home.
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May 13, 2013 at 8:27 am |
hello. I am usually afraid of any living creatures that aren’t humans and something.when I was in the right thank you google and that didn’t come out right let me start over. I am usually afraid of any living creatures that aren’t humans and some humans 2. I was just wondering seriously all of this just to ask when the tree started bawling over did you say timber?
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May 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm |
LOL! I was too startled to yell “timber” at the actual moment the tree fell. But in all honesty when I was editing it all together I was sorely tempted to put in the sound effect of someone yelling it! 😀
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May 13, 2013 at 4:22 pm |
HOLY MOLY! I would have had a heart attack if I ran into the thing.. . That spider has to be the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. Yuck Yuck Yuckity Yuck!
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May 13, 2013 at 4:50 pm |
You said it Amy!!!!!! I respond to them so viscerally I can’t help but loathe and fear them. ESPECIALLY when they are in my hidey-hole apartment. ESPECIALLY when I know damn well there are more of them lurking in here (it’s a basement apartment). But intellectually I appreciate them and I love watching them (from a safe distance) making their webs. I SHOULD try to capture them and release them to the out-of-doors. But the primal part of me just wants to kill it!
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May 13, 2013 at 8:50 pm |
That spider looks like the size of the palm of my hand….yuk! Oh!
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May 13, 2013 at 9:33 pm |
it was h-i-d-e-o-u-s!
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May 14, 2013 at 5:38 pm |
When I found that scorpion outside I researched how to kill those little buggers.. Yeah you can’t. No chemicals will kill them. I continued to read on in this article how “helpful” they are because they kill black widows (which I’ve seen here) and cockroaches. Now I can’t decide which it worse! Maybe next time I’ll grow some balls and snap a pic of the scorpions! From far away… With my long range zoom lens….
Think 30 feet is a safe distance?
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May 15, 2013 at 5:12 pm |
Get a better zoom lens and make it 75 feet! 😀
Y’know… prior to global warming New York was free of many many deadly creatures. Like f’rinstance… rattle snakes. Or scorpions. Or black widow spiders. Anyways… I’m pretty sure I recently read that there are alligators on Long Island… and I guess they’re surviving the winter, although I don’t see how. I am now leaning towards living in Alaska.
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