Spider Sacs

Just been doing some everyday regular old white trash vacuuming lately:



Now that we've dug out our crawl space, we have found the spider breeding grounds. We're hoping our vacuum can help us reduce our spider population (by at least a couple hundred) before hatching time comes.

Bug Kisses

I always thought Costa Rica seemed like such an intriguing place.
I've been reading about it lately, and discovered it's a bit more intriguing than I thought--in the creepy crawly department. Here's what I read today:

During the day, the bugs hide in crevices in the walls and roofs. During the night, when the inhabitants are sleeping, the bugs emerge. Because they tend to feed on people’s faces, triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs.” After they bite and ingest blood, they defecate on the person. The person then becomes infected through the bite.

Okay, I was mostly disturbed by the line they tend to feed on people's faces. I don't really feel like 'feeding on faces' can be categorized as a mere "tendency". I can picture this information being narrated by someone with a British accent, calmly talking about bloody face-eating on the Discovery Channel. And the word "defecate"? That's a disturbing word in any context, but here we have a visual of a bug squatting over a freshly-dug, bloody latrine. In someone's face!

Bug smooch, anyone?

Hobo Highway Now Closed

This just in:
Hobo Highway (the one-inch space beneath our garage door) has been closed until further notice. My UDOT husband, who specializes in shutting highways down, has closed it off with a brand-new piece of weatherstripping. All spiders will have to find an alternate route for commuting to their work of terrorizing small children.

White Trash Moment of the Day

You know you're white trash when your chosen form of entertainment is watching a large, poisonous, pregnant hobo spider try to escape up the sides of a slippery garbage can.