We have been inundated by nature these past couple of weeks. We have had crazy winds that have made it hard to walk, sharks in golf course water hazards (giving hazards a whole new and meaningful definition) and almost 50mm of rain in the past 3 days. For all of this, nothing compares to the spider that we found in our bedroom the other night.
We had a spate of cool nights recently and have been sleeping with the window open. Like most Australian homes we don't have screens in the windows, so we only had the window open a crack, but obviously it was enough. We went upstairs to get ready for bed and there it was, a gigantic golden orb weaver. It was easily the size of an adult's hand (legs span) and it did not go down without a fight! We had a can of bug killer that can drop a cockroach in it's tracks, but a 10 second shot barely stopped this monster. All it did was knock the spider off the wall...and directly onto our bed! Finally after 10 horrifying minutes of spraying and a well aimed vacuum nozzle, the spider was gone. It was bad enough to find it in the bedroom but we couldn't help but ask ourselves: how long was it there and it is the only one? The bug spray now resides on our bedside table.
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