Wednesday, August 13, 2008

My Father's daughter

My dad, as many of you know is a nature loving biologist who is against killing anything besides the creatures who eat up his garden. I was reminded of him today both as I woke up and as I was going to bed. When I got out of bed this morning I discovered I had slept with a spider. My dad takes thousands of photographs of spiders. He loves spiders. I don't know how he feels about sleeping with them. This was just a little one and I unfortunately shortened it's life because as I was trying to coax it into the cup I had over it, one of it's legs came off. However, being my father's daughter I did not kill it but let it outside. Then, to my surprise, as I was reading my scriptures late tonight what I thought was another spider leapt out at me. That was a bit startling and I captured it too and though I was in my underwear, ventured just past the door and let the thing go. I did examine it on the way to the door and it moved like a spider but was not because it only had 6 legs. I'm not so sure I want to know what I will be sleeping with tonight. Andy's out of town--should I tell him of his fellow bedfellows? I need to go to bed it's late. It think I'll check my bed again. I don't care for surprises of that sort.

4 comments:

Aaron said...

Haha! I love the whole fellow bedfellows comment. I saw your DH at the courthouse the other day. One more big Huzzah for the old clerks and a hello to the new. Hope you are liking Boise as much as we did.

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andreamichelle said...

So I left comments on several of your posts, I got into reading them and wanted to just say hi I guess. :) I wouldn't like waking up and finding spiders in my bed.

Unknown said...

So I think it would have been more humane to kill the spider who lost his leg. But then again, maybe he'll learn to live a well-adjusted life as a five-legger and be an inspiration to all his fellow species. Maybe it was for the best after all.

The Cox Family said...

Gross! Ashton did the same thing the yesterday... took off a spider's leg while trying to free it. I didn't have the heart to tell him I think it died.