Welcome spring, spiders, and squishing...

Spring has arrived (finally) and apparently this also means that the spiders have made their home in our basement. I love living here…so do the arachnids of Edmonton. These are not your normal tiny Northern Alberta creepy crawlies; these are, ugly big, fat bugs with pinchers on their mouths…waiting to bite human beings. I can’t ask David to kill them for me; last time I did that he captured the spider under a glass and chased me all over the house with it. So I must fend for myself…squashing any creature that I find in the shower, in the sink, in the bed, or under the laundry basket. I find the best way to accomplish this task is to gather up half a roll of toilet paper, bunch it up in your hand and quickly come down upon the crawly creature. Following the dramatic death, you must flush the bug down the toilet; garbage can disposal is not sufficient, should the arachnid miraculously decide to gather his legs together and come back to life.