Here's my most recent close encounter. I was helping tensandtweties with his struts the other day down at my shop. (Well, I was standing around looking pretty, he was doing all the work.) He made the comment that his rearview mirror had fallen off. I had just replaced the rearview in Mini-Pearl and swore that there was another mirror in my small storage. I took a stroll over and pulled up the rollup door. Now I never think about all of the little webs on the bottom of the door and just started leaning in and rooting around in the stored stuff. Suddenly, I felt something brush me cheek, that's the face, not the backside! I did the usual "heeby jeeby" dance and brushed at stuff on my head and upper body until I was satisfied there was nothing on me and went back to searching. After a few minutes, I decided I must have been dreaming the other mirror and gave up the search. Just as I turned around to leave and reach up for the door, I saw her! She could have been the mother alien that attacked Ripley in Aliens and I wouldn't have been more freaked out! One of the biggest BW spiders I have ever seen crawling along on the bottom of the overhead door right above where I was leaning in. If I had stood up and smacked my head on the door, as I'm known to do from time to time, she would have been knocked right down the back of my "prison orange" jumpsuit. I'm checking my scalp and neck for them as we speak, I'm so creeped out.
T&T will probably claim I'm making it all up since I was so calm when I got back to the big shop. (I don't know how that happened!) But the story is true. John, we'll go kill her and get a picture Tuesday.

Here's how I (safely) took care of a Black Widow Spider:

During the daytime, I noticed some suspicious, extra-tacky webs underneath my front bumper, but no spider. I vacumed them up, but they reappeared the next day. I knew what had to be done: and last night I went out with a flashlight and doused a black widow with spider kill (regular bug spray won't do it).

I already have 14 confirmed KIA's this year and I just found another web moments ago. So I'll be back soon. Can't let 'em migrate! KILL KILL KILL!

Okay, the sun had set and it was getting dark, but after a productive weekend of getting nothing accomplished, I decided it was time to remove some vines from the house. I was working on a ladder near the roof and noticed something large and black coming toward my face: a plump black widow spider! I grabbed my sandal and swatted it. It died slowly while moving down toward the ground on its web. Being pretty late in the season, I wondered what it was doing up there. I soon found the answer: a swollen egg sac hidden in an attic vent. I pulled it off and sliced it open. Hundreds of hard, tiny pellets rolled out and I noticed a pungent odor emanating from the sac. In a slightly sadistic move, I placed spider and sac near an ant line, and returned later to find the ants well into their feast. Hey, waste not want not, right?

There is no fate bad enough for spiders----more strength to you!Quote:

Mat also shows his "environmentally friendly" side. Personally, give me a 55 gallon drum of DDT. PS: I'm up to 15 confirmed K.I.A. this year.