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The spider that came in from the cold
Feb. 9th, 2020 12:17 pm Last night I was sitting in bed and noticed a large spider scuttling across the floor. It was not a redback or other notably dangerous variety, nor a more standard house spider like a daddy longlegs or a huntsman, just a generic looking large hairy spider. Usually we are pretty relaxed about spiders in the house, although we tend to err on the side of 'if it's likely to bite a small person it has to go' (even though these days the smallest person in the house is actually me). When I started to get up it went under the bed. So I went and fetched Andy. I am not bothered much by spiders as a general rule, but I do not like things crawling on me.
Andy fished the spider out and released it into the front garden.
"Funny," he said. "That looks exactly like the spider I removed from the kids' bathroom last week."
An hour later he came back to inform me that the spider (the exact same spider) was now in the kitchen. This spider really really wants to be inside, it seems. This time it got put out the back where the doors have closer seals around the edges.
Also this morning Andy woke up and told me he'd been having a dream about Peter Dutton mowing our lawn.
The weather has been extremely peculiar lately. The last few days have been really sticky and humid. Last week we managed to have a 24 hour period in which it went from being 43°C and 11% humidity to raining 25mm in about 20 mins. That might not seem like a lot, but Adelaide doesn't typically get a lot of rain at once, and our soils and drainage infrastructure tend to get a bit overwhelmed if we do. Typically 30mm in a day will cause light flooding in some areas. Needless to say that much in such a short period of time was slightly terrifying. All the gutters on the house overflowed (in some places there were sheets of water pouring off the roof), and the shed (which is recessed into the ground for reasons that were probably sensible when it was built) filled up with a couple of inches of water.
This morning I have been reading through old blog posts from when the kids were small and thinking 'how are we all still alive?'
Andy fished the spider out and released it into the front garden.
"Funny," he said. "That looks exactly like the spider I removed from the kids' bathroom last week."
An hour later he came back to inform me that the spider (the exact same spider) was now in the kitchen. This spider really really wants to be inside, it seems. This time it got put out the back where the doors have closer seals around the edges.
Also this morning Andy woke up and told me he'd been having a dream about Peter Dutton mowing our lawn.
The weather has been extremely peculiar lately. The last few days have been really sticky and humid. Last week we managed to have a 24 hour period in which it went from being 43°C and 11% humidity to raining 25mm in about 20 mins. That might not seem like a lot, but Adelaide doesn't typically get a lot of rain at once, and our soils and drainage infrastructure tend to get a bit overwhelmed if we do. Typically 30mm in a day will cause light flooding in some areas. Needless to say that much in such a short period of time was slightly terrifying. All the gutters on the house overflowed (in some places there were sheets of water pouring off the roof), and the shed (which is recessed into the ground for reasons that were probably sensible when it was built) filled up with a couple of inches of water.
This morning I have been reading through old blog posts from when the kids were small and thinking 'how are we all still alive?'
