Spiders are good for your garden and your house too I reckon if you have little bugs bugging you. Hanna at This Garden Is Illegal has a great post about Wolf Spiders. I really don’t mind spiders but I really hate the hairy ones! Yes, that would be wolf spiders.

When I was in California, we had Black Widows all over the place. They didn’t bother me much except worrying that my kids might get bit. I was always cleaning them out of the patio in the backyard. I did find out that they can play dead and they can jump really well too!

These giant webs are the most bizarre though. This one was in Texas and contained 250 specimens in 12 families. Talk about a community, that’s going too far for me 😉 Have I given you the creepy crawly willies yet?

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today we honor them and their sacrifice.

This is a test using the media upload thingy. I don’t actually know if that was Lissy’s first ice cream since that was like 20 years ago. lol But from the look on her face it could have been 😉

I had to take another picture. I’m so refraining from feeding them a few worms myself 😉 No matter how much they eat they are always hungry.

There’s 3 babies there and everytime I go out the back door their little heads pop up, mouths wide open.

Since I’m digging up the garden today I hope mama takes advantage of the easy pickings 😉