Ewwwwwww

Dave and I had just arrived with Kayla, Levi, and Trinity at the Rodgers house. There was a beautiful rainbow in the sky that framed the house and we were all thrilled to see it...

Then suddenly we saw it. Sitting there on the veranda, basking in the sunlight on one of the tiles.

It was enough to make us forget the lovely display in the afternoon sky.



SPIDER! HUGE! Ewwwwwww



It took all my authority-voice to get the kids to go in the house and not stand over the thing to inspect it. I don't think I spoke more than 3 or 4 octaves higher than normal.



Once inside, they stood at the sliding glass doors (closed, thank you) to watch the grand execution.


Joyce, the housegirl, grabbed her weapon and proceeded to anoint the thing with deadly "sunblock."

He'd never see the sun again after this...blocked forever from him...

After his little dance of death (really weird), he rolled up into a tight little ball.



Dead.

Or at least we THOUGHT he was dead.

Would Raid fail?

When we were ready to leave the house, we thought it would be cool to hover over the critter and lament his untimely demise.

But he wasn't there. Ooooooo. Had Raid indeed failed?

Then we spied him, over there, in the corner. He had managed to give us a final shivver of curious dread with his last effort to move into a quiet spot to die.

This time he was very dead. Finished.

Ah, the non-boring life of the humble missionary. (Come see us!)

p.s. Extensive internet research reveals that it is a banana spider, non-aggressive, non-poisionous.
yeah, right. just a cute little fuzzy...