Is what Troy said when I showed him this:
I found her by accident. I was watering my flower beds, minding my own business, when suddenly I saw something like this out of the corner of my eye:
Have I led a sheltered existence if I never knew spiders did this? It just never occurred to me that they could. It looked like she was having a good time, actually...like a little spidey-trampoline. In reality, I'm sure she was ticked. I think if we could hear her swinging, inner-dialogue, we'd find it went something like..."These freakin' people and their stupid garden hoses...can't they look where they're spraying? Sheesh! I've got a limited window of time I'm workin' with here...and now she just basically broadcast my position on the 5:00 news!"
Well, of course I had to run for my camera. She was still swingin' when I got back, but stopped long enough for me to get some good still shots. Then I thought it would be cool to get her swinging on the above video, too, sooooo....I sprayed her again. This had the desired affect, but judging by the extra vigor she put into her bouncing, I think now it's probably personal. It was clearly premeditated on my part, and she knows it.
Needless to say, I'll be watching my back. (And by the way...I looked it up online and it's a wasp spider...and they are no more poisonous than a bee sting. Is it weird that this makes her seem less exotic now?)
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That was cool. But one question. What were you doing watering your plants? When we lived there I don't remember my mom having to water anything.
Hi Karen! We do have to water them during the summer, if it hasn't rained a significant amount in the past few days, otherwise the blazing heat here works FAST to dry them out. It actually depends on the location, too. I don't ever have to water my back flower beds because they don't have as much sun so the water doesn't evaporate as quickly. We don't have to do that often, though...because we do get a LOT of rain. We are supposed to use the water from our dehumidifiers, but the kids are in charge of emptying them, and I always forget.
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