Monday, October 10, 2016

Colonized


I wore these old Adidas running shoes in the creek one day in August.  Afterwards, I left them on the front porch to dry in the sun.  When I brought them into the house, I noticed that they were full of sticky spider webs that had collected leaves.  Today, I tried to clean out the leaves.  After some sweeping with a paper-towel and some banging on the side of the trash can, I reached in and felt something soft and rolly-polly.  It was a black widow spider.  Yikes.  I looked at the other shoe.  Inside was a second black widow, even larger than the first.  Word to the wise:  If your shoes have been on the porch, you may want to look them over before you put them on.

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