Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 10, 2012

Right on, Alix! grin

Oh hell no…Right on Holly! Let them all kill each other so there are fewer to sneak up on me.

Babies?!!?!?!?! Flush them both down the toilet now!

Got that right..flush. Quick.

The Spiders get to stay in my home as long as they do their work… They work as 24-Hour Pest-Control Agents and they don’t take Day-off(s) or go on holidays…

Just think Holly—what if one is a female and she consumes the male after mating—wouldn’t that be interesting to watch???

They could be both girls and would also fight to the death but even if one is a boy and the other is a girl chances of both spiders staying alive is about 15% (since the female will eat the male though they do escape sometimes or this type of spider don’t eat their males).I’m a little dissappointed that we didn’t get to see Joan freak out.

I pity any man who marries Holly!

Reminds me of my nephew when he was a boy. He actually wanted to catch a snake, thinking it could be kept as a pet, and follow him around the house.

Birth or death, it’s still part of nature and fascinating.

One summer, there was a spider making her home behind our mailbox. She’d create a huge web every night, reaching three feet from the porch rail to the ornamental cedar and of course including the mail box. Every day the wind would ruin her work, and every night she’d rebuild it. Then she go ambitious and tried to catch us by stringing a 14-foot web from the mailbox and porch rail all the way up to the corner of the eaves trough. Not long after that, she proved her female status when hundreds of tiny spiders rappelled from the porch rail to the ground. Alix would have loved it!

As far as I am concerned, not being married is the only perk for being gay, and now some seem to want this form of punishment.

which one is the pervert the onw want to watch spider porn or the one that wants to watch them kill each other

The other day we were discussing how quickly spiders can build a web. This morning I opened the pantry to fix breakfast, and there was a spider web from shelf to shelf. Lovely artwork, but it went into the vacuum.

Any man can be a lieutenant, but it takes a wife to make a general. ~ Pat Frank in Alas, Babylon

Seems out of character to me that Holly would even want to see that much of any spider.

My daughter brought a bridge spider home when she was 12 years old, and named it Maggie. She built a tank for it with 2 boards inside (for it to “bridge” it’s web) and one day I noticed there was an egg sac in the tank! It erupted with dozens of baby bridge spiders and we got it outside just in time—to this day (my daughter is 24 yo now) we have Maggie’s descendants living in our backyard! Alix reminds me so much of my daughter—right down to the dark curly hair! She ended up in environmental science and biochemistry!