I just myself got an update last night. My sister went to Dad's house to see him and check on the progress for emptying the sewing room for me. She told me it is coming along really well, but not there yet. As he is having the ladies from church help him with it.
On my end, things are looking...
I am sad they are gone. I had kept my very best hens, and an excellent rooster. But I am very happy they have a great new home. The fresh eggs will be missed too, although all of the deep litter was going to the compost. We here stopped gardening when he decided the marriage was over.
I re-homed my tiny flock of chickens last Sunday. A nice young single mom where DH works wanted them. She has 2 children, 12 and 7. I think they will all do fine.
4 of the spiders came back. 1 parked herself on the bottom corner of the potting shed. I found the other 3 on the east side of the house. Opposite of the Back 40 fence line I had relocated them too. I also found 2 new egg sacks.
When I grew them, when they started to dry for seed, and bent their heads down....I bagged them in paper bags, wired the ends shut, and hung them in a sunny dry spot to finish. I think, if you get them started drying, they should be fine. Then just toss the rotted seeds to the birds, or save...
That little stinker! I had found a smaller one on Sunday morning, spinning her web inside the curled up water hose. By the time I checked again Sunday evening...she was gone.
I found her this morning. Spread across the lower corner of the potting shed by the thyme. Well, I had relocated one...
As of today, I think I am down to 2 spiders. I had to re-locate everyone else, because the DH and his friend went around with the weed whackers and whacked EVERYTHING. The spiders would have been mush. So all of the ones I could find, I put in the Back 40 fence line.
I did find a baby...
Update on the relocated spiders; I find 2 this morning. The remaining 6 have happily sauntered off into the back 40. Someplace the brush is so thick as t block out the sunlight. Of the 2 this morning.....1 just had to put herself at ground level....front and center. Right in the weed...
The other day, I was opening a door, and the little lizard fell into one of the webs. She ran right over and started wrapping.....then....backed off and left him. Hmmmm
I released him and let him go. I am thinking they don't eat the lizards after a certain size.
Why Thank You!! I expected everyone here thought me nutz. :lol:
I find that if we take the time to observe our world around us, we can become quite enlightened as human beings.
I have discovered many things about these orb ladies. They don't eat each other. They don't eat everything. They...
Today I had to relocate 8 of the spiders. They are in danger of getting weed whacked this weekend. Spouse says he is going to hire a guy from his dept to come down and help him clean up the 1 acre property here.
Since all of these lovely ladies like/prefer to spread out over into the edge...
Interesting observation on the spiders- NONE of them took down their zig zag in their webs. I have a little one who has 3 in hers!!! Like a peace sign :lol:
Last years hurricane, which came more into our direction, all of the ladies built webs without the zig zag.
So, I guess the spider...
I took pics yesterday...but....they ALL look like the same spider!!! :lol:
They are very interesting though. I had to clean up the north side of the garage flower bed though, where the majority of them had webs. 11 of them were there. I guess I pissed some of them off.....the next...