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[drumstick diva]

PS I know spiders have their worth, so I am trying very hard not to "remove" any that are no where near me, and minding their own business in their corner of the world.

 

[Alaskan]

as to spiders. If I can see them, I will step on them or if they are distant, I use my $ 1.00 Spic N' Span spray from $ Tree - stream setting, and knock them down, then step on them. I know they are very beneficial BUT, since birth I've been wired to take them out.
What freaks me is when they come down their silky thread from the ceiling and are danging over my head. When I have swatted at them they disappear and then I am afraid to go back to sleep in case they come back.

The 3 stuff dogs I sleep with do nothing to protect me.

sounds like a horror movie.

blach!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

with ya there Diva I do not hunt them outside as long as they are not in my domain they are allowed to live

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, we need less insects in this world. Viva arachnids!

 

[chickadoodles]

I guess I'm doing my part to get rid of all the bugs! My water garden raised a couple hundred frogs at least and I have lizzards and skinks every where. They are all eating the bugs! Of course when the frogs all get together and sing it drives me bonkers! The are so loud I made a video of the noise. But had to back up all the pics and videos off my phone to the computer. Now I don't know where it is.
But the only spiders I see around are the huge banana spiders they can't eat.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I guess I'm doing my part to get rid of all the bugs! My water garden raised a couple hundred frogs at least and I have lizzards and skinks every where. They are all eating the bugs! Of course when the frogs all get together and sing it drives me bonkers! The are so loud I made a video of the noise. But had to back up all the pics and videos off my phone to the computer. Now I don't know where it is.
But the only spiders I see around are the huge banana spiders they can't eat.

I used to have to catch all the frogs and toads from the koi pond in FL and relocate them because DH could not sleep. Now we have a river in the back yard and gazillion toads and cicadas making a racket.

 

[drumstick diva]

When we get hit by the 17 year cicadas they DO make enough racket to cause hearing loss. We get billlions, the birds go nuts eating them (ick) and whenever I see them cohabitating on the street, I step on them and remove 2 instead 1 from the population.
We get seagulls performing air attack and all the dive bombing makes me jumpy.

Last time I bought one of those kinda French foreign legion hats with neck & side flaps.
Hoping to keep them from crawling up my neck . If you try to knock them off they screech. The RED eyes are very zombie-ish.

They claim exposure to an hour of their continuous Din and you get hearing loss.We have tons of forest preserves and golf courses and that is where the noise is the worst. You'll also find big holes in trees trunks etc, where the young'uns burrow out - shed their skin and become full grown CICADAS, They come in July and I believe last for 6 weeks or more. There is a parasitic mite that hatches in time to attack them. The mites however are still around after all the cicadas have died. If you walk under trees you are sure to pick some up. The itching is awful. They don't care for humans but of course need to bite you to discover that .

I think we are due for them in 4 years or so, I know the Cicadas arrived the summer my college freshman son was interning in WA. He luckily missed the entire invasion. We did not.

It was honestly the summer from a very hot place. We got miserable steamy, high heat and frequent heavy rains. I was missing my son so much I kept up my daily walking
and just wore my poor tuckered self out. The day he came back home - of course we had a power failure.

 

[Alaskan]

very impressive @drumstick diva

 

[pennyJo1960]

I'll just second that okay

 

[Beer can]

Probably best that whatever they gave him calmed him down. And possibly safer.

A dairy plant...cool! You sounded quite a bit like a dispatcher (semis)

This is true. It depends a lot of the genetics and what the person's life was like.

I worked about eight yrs here in the unloading bay taking in semis of milk mostly, some cream, condensed skim, and condensed whole. Was a great job never saw a supervisor and got to BS with drivers all day. It would take about a hour and a half sometimes two from start to finish with two pumping and two washing. So I had a pretty good relationship with most of the drivers. It was 2nd shift though, 1:30-9:30.
I've moved around the plant since, have a gravy job now that I just read books all day or play on my phone, condense the whey to 40% solids. On 2nd again also, hard to see the kids in school and sports...
Think I'm going back out to the milk receiving bay soon, jobs up. Pretty sure I'll get it not many want to work weekends. It's weekend day off relief.
1st shift Fri Sat and 2nd Sun Mon, 10hr shifts. 10hr shift but three days off, and it works out awesome on vacations with adding personal days to the start or tail. And I'll have people to talk to again! I see absolutely nobody ever where I work now.
I like to talk Lol!