Catching Up Again

Isn’t if funny that when I mentioned spiders, I received a number of responses about them. What causes folks to click on the comments button one day and not on another usually surprises me. Perhaps spiders are something most of us deal with—whether we are on the farm or in the city. I think the garden spider is one of my favorites; they stay outside, they are beautiful and harmless, and they make gorgeous webs in the fall. I don’t think there is an inside spider that can be called a favorite. Those are as quickly as possible eradicated from my home. We have one we call the quick spider. I don’t think my son was bothered by them until he woke one night with one walking on his face!

I’ve enjoyed seeing new people stop by to leave a note in my comment box. If they leave a link, I like to go and visit them. It is fun to see who is passing through. I also enjoy the Site Meter on my blog; they have recently added a list of the ISP’s that are used when visiting my blog, so although I cannot tell what the hometown of the visitor is, I do have a guess on the area of the country because there is an ISP location given. I’m fascinated at the folks who drop by from places around the world; I also am amazed at how much information can be tracked through a Site Meter! Yikes!

It’s fun to know that someone is keeping track of my poppy seeds (those computer html marks that appear when I use Mozilla). I suppose only the Microsoft Explorer folk can see them, and the only time I use ME is when I post on my blog. Sometimes I forget.

The family seems to be moving forward after our sad farewell yesterday. I was keeping on schedule today until the man who came to spray the outside of our house for Asian beetles and cluster flies came; I saw that someone had left a case of bottled water on the deck and got caught in the spray’s mist as I walked out the door to take it in. I tend to react to chemicals—the last times I used OFF and Cutters is the last time I will ever use it!!! I immediately showered and did everything I could think of, so I hope it will have been enough. We have never had the house sprayed before—I am always afraid of what it might do to people and pets, but it has been hard to share my house with thousands of pests swarming in each fall. We will see if it is worth doing another year or not.

I was out after dusk a few days ago and snapped the full moon. How serene the country can be at night!

Blessings.


Full moon.