Arachnids and Me

I live in the high-desert mountains of Wyoming.  This means I have plenty of uninvited guests sneak into my home because my home is built right on top of theirs.  Spiders are frequent intruders and I am constantly killing reminding them to stay out.

The other day I found a web connected to the toilet.  Okay, no way am I going to let a cobweb be connected to something I use at my most vulnerable moments.  Or to sensitive areas that I really don’t want to get bit.  I got rid of it immediately.

One morning I woke up and went to do my normal morning routine.  As I stumbled out of my bedroom I walked through a silvery, kind of sticky substance.  One industrious spider had spent the night spinning a web in my doorway.

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Pests and Rodents

My brother left to serve a mission when I turned twelve years old.  The day we got back from dropping him off at the MTC, I moved myself into his basement bedroom.  My mom approved the move, she was just too tired and probably a little too sad to help me.  So, I moved everything but the furniture myself.  By the time I moved out years later, I was very tired of living in the basement.  I promised myself I would never live in another basement again.

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