Dovey
Arachnobaron
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- Apr 9, 2016
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Two things of note happened in the spider room today, one very bad and one "once in a lifetime" off-the-charts phenomenal:
1. My father, who has no idea about these things and fearing that it might have venom that would do serious damage to a fox terrier, took a massive adult Scolopendra heros (9") away from one of our dogs and killed it. I tried to get him to understand how valuable a predator these are and that they would not do any lasting damage to our dog. She would leave the situation sadder but wiser, certainly, about the foolishess of assaulting invertebrates. I could see he thought I had just lost my mind, so I said "Dad, the next time you think about killing one of these guys, just pull $100 bill out of your pocket and light it on fire. These are valuable financially! I've never seen a wild caught S. heros in all its glory for less than $80 wholesale!" I think he gets it now. He told me where I should go to flip rocks to make sure there are no others that could fall prey too our beloved but utterly wicked killer fox terriers.
2. I won a Typhochlaena seladonia today. Let me repeat that, because that's a sentence you want to type more than once in your life: I won a Typhochlaena seladonia today. Told you I would! I haven't won a single thing since a second grade spelling bee; my boarding school recently closed, shutting down my job and throwing me out of my housing; and my health has been fairly crappy for months now. Things have not been great since the year began, and it just felt like time for the winds to change direction. I hope this is a firm indicator that they have.
Thank you so much to the good people at Palp Friction for the lovely big order of slings they recently sent me and for developing the give-away. I have asked them to hold on to my sling until it is past the delicate phase so I have some hope of actually getting a good night's sleep in the interim!
1. My father, who has no idea about these things and fearing that it might have venom that would do serious damage to a fox terrier, took a massive adult Scolopendra heros (9") away from one of our dogs and killed it. I tried to get him to understand how valuable a predator these are and that they would not do any lasting damage to our dog. She would leave the situation sadder but wiser, certainly, about the foolishess of assaulting invertebrates. I could see he thought I had just lost my mind, so I said "Dad, the next time you think about killing one of these guys, just pull $100 bill out of your pocket and light it on fire. These are valuable financially! I've never seen a wild caught S. heros in all its glory for less than $80 wholesale!" I think he gets it now. He told me where I should go to flip rocks to make sure there are no others that could fall prey too our beloved but utterly wicked killer fox terriers.
2. I won a Typhochlaena seladonia today. Let me repeat that, because that's a sentence you want to type more than once in your life: I won a Typhochlaena seladonia today. Told you I would! I haven't won a single thing since a second grade spelling bee; my boarding school recently closed, shutting down my job and throwing me out of my housing; and my health has been fairly crappy for months now. Things have not been great since the year began, and it just felt like time for the winds to change direction. I hope this is a firm indicator that they have.
Thank you so much to the good people at Palp Friction for the lovely big order of slings they recently sent me and for developing the give-away. I have asked them to hold on to my sling until it is past the delicate phase so I have some hope of actually getting a good night's sleep in the interim!
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