pestilence update
1. Haven’t seen silverfish in the screening room recently, but it’s usually pretty dark in there.
2. Hung up a bird feeder in my garden a couple of weeks ago, but no birds have shown up. Instead, there is a squirrel so huge it looks like a capybara wearing a fake tail that paws through the birdseed every afternoon around noon. He’s so regular it’s like he’s on a time clock. I can see him hanging out, chatting with his squirrel friends, and then suddenly saying “Oh shit, it’s noon, I’m due over at the Alcott joint.”
3. Hung up a tiny hummingbird feeder, and immediately three hummingbirds started fighting over it. The thing empties out in about three days.
Roy Scheider in Beaks: “We’re gonna need a bigger feeder.”
4. Usual assortment of spiders. Magic Schoolbus says that you’re never more than three feet away from a spider.
UPDATE: Two sparrows attacking the birdseed this afternoon. Birds eating birdseed! And, hummingbird feeder now emptying in less than a day. Hummingbirds too fast to see.
You go in the garden, hummingbirds in the garden — our hummingbirds…
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies…
Arachnophobia
you’re never more than three feet away from a spider.
I didn’t need to know that 🙁
Re: Arachnophobia
I’ve often tried to work this out in my head.
Do spiders meet once a month to pool information on shifting population trends? If a guy has to go sleep on the couch, do they send someone to go sit next to him? Are there spiders in my car, on planes (Spiders on a Plane?), on the space shuttle?
Re: Arachnophobia
My fear is that they are territorial and simply divy up the space.
I heard an article on NPR about a family that collected hundreds of Brown Recluse spiders in their house. So I found the article for you.
“The family collected 2,055 brown recluse spiders during that six-month period”
It would not surprise me if there were spiders on planes and the space shuttle, I don’t see how they could keep them out.
Now doesn’t that make you feel comfortable?
Re: Arachnophobia
Oh, well that explains it.
It’s an average. This family had 2,055 spiders within three feet of them, so that means that I probably don’t have any at all.
Sounds nice, Todd! I just got wise to your LJ (DUH DER) and now I can keep up with your West Coast adventures. I’ll be out there for a few days after SD, and if we’re all still standing, maybe I can visit.
ON the spider thing, I have a friendly little spider who lives in my kitchen, and we live in peace and harmony, becuase I would rather have a spider than many other insects.
Speaking of which, have you run up against LA’s unholy army of unstoppable ants yet? One particularly bad year, they got all clumped up in my toilet tank — now that was FUN.
pestilence update
1. Haven’t seen silverfish in the screening room recently, but it’s usually pretty dark in there.
Hey, if there’s some guy named Silverfish at the studio who rubs you the wrong way, that’s your business, but you might want to think twice about calling him a “pestilence” on your blog. These things get around and it could make for a very awkward situation the next time you’re both in the screening room.
Thanks for the advice, Polack.