Fun Day! Some friends of ours are moving to Utah and didn't want to risk bringing Louisiana bugs with them, so they left us their trampoline!! If you're reading this, THANK YOU! We love it and are having a blast!
So while Ethan and Jacey tried out their jumping legs today, I tackled the job of cleaning out their mud coated playhouse. I swept and scraped and swept and when I turned it upside down to dump the dirt I'd gotten loose, I found these:
A creepy centipede, an even creepier salamander (which I'm shocked to say I got close enough to tell it wasn't a snake) and a BLACK WIDOW. If these do not exist in Salt Lake, Christine, take me with you!!!
Not only were they in our backyard, but underneath the kid's playhouse! They love that thing! The neighbors flock to our house because they love it too! So, after consulting some experts (Ryan, Maegan and Mom) I'm off to the store to get spider spray and bug spray of every variety in an attempt to rid my yard of creepy crawlies for good. If I'm lucky, one of them might even work on the indestructible Lousiana fire ant.
Ughh! So goss! We do have spiders up here, but not much else in the bug world. SO NICE!
ReplyDeleteI'm SO glad you guys love it!!! ...and yes- we have spiders out here- and most likely the other creepy crawlies too, the cold just scares them off before we see them!
ReplyDelete