Photo post!

[logansrogue]

Hey everyone! I have some photos I want to share with you!





First - our Christmas Tree. Isn't it gorgeous?! Well, I think it is. I put the slivers of shiny stuff all over it. The fake ice or snow or whatever the hell it's supposed to be. My brother Scotty made the angel. Here's a close up!


COOL, HUH?! *grins*


This is a couple of cactii in our kitchen. Before you make the predictable phallic joke, it's intentional. My sister got it for Mum and Dad to commemorate him getting a ball removed. Anyway, they like it in the kitchen and are growing well. Soon, a little friend moved in between them, building up her pretty lacy home. You can see it in the picture! Now, if you're scared of spiders, watch out.


Everyone, meet Mary. She's quite contrary in her pretty cactus home. At first she cared me, but one time I went to look at her and she turned around in her web and looked *straight at me*. Something passed between us in that moment cause I got the chills, not of fright, but that this little creature knew I was looking at it, and I knew she was looking at me. Ever since then I've kinda fallen in love with her. I know, ridiculous - I HATE SPIDERS! But I love this spider. In fact I'm getting more tolerant of spiders all round since Mary. I wouldn't like them on me and I still scream if I run into a web, and I get the heebie jeebies "Have I got a SPIDER ON ME?!" thing after looking at pictures, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

I'm telling you, for a window/house spider, she's almost flambouyant! Seriously! She comes out of her little hidey hole quite often and walks about her web. These spiders are supposed to be very reclusive. She has her times of day when she comes out and has a wander. I like to sing to her when she does that, and I blow on her web gently, just to let her know that I know she's there. I've had to save her from fly spray and people wanting to get rid of her so many times. She's about two centimetres across, leg-span wise. She's so cool!

I mean, how many goths would wet their pants at the concept? A glossy black spider living in a pair of cactii!! TOO COOL! Anyway, I've blathered on about my spider friend for long enough.


This is only really funny if you've seen Black Books.

Comments

[fallimar.livejournal.com]

Adore the life cry...

You always know you're in for a good night, when there's a polar bear, bleeding, on the bottle. *evil grin*

and... oi! I need to talk to you about art-ness :)

contact me ASAP via AIM, YAHOO, MSN, email... you know! I'm around tonight and tomorrow morning-ish!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Trying to talk to you on Yahoo now.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

is Mary a black widow? she looks more like one than a common house spider.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

She's a house spider. Black Widows have fatter, rounded abdomens that are glossy with spindly legs.

[fallimar.livejournal.com]

I think she's a masonry spider or something? They've got some rocky name or other.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I don't know which particular genus she is, I keep looking up and none of the window spiders are black and glossy enough to be her. She's so pretty!

[nousia.livejournal.com]

Your Christmas tree is awesome. I love Scotty's angel XD

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

IN THE BEGINNING! Round nineteen fifty-five!

[nousia.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Good point.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

... do you know what I'm quoting?

[nousia.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but no. I'm not literate in culture. :T

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

No, it's all good. There's a song by ACDC, and the 'angel' above was the lead singer (he died). Bon Scott was his name. He was just *awesome*. So awesome that I can't bear to listen to ACDC songs post-BS. Anyway. That's him in priest's garb from the film clip for the song 'Let There Be Rock'. It's a great song, very awesome!

[nousia.livejournal.com]

Oohhhh I see.

Thanks, Nancy :)

[girlguitarist.livejournal.com]

we had a spider last summer on our porch, who we named henrietta. we'd turn the lights on out there at night so more flies and moths would get stuck in her web. we made her so fat!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Awww, you're so nice! I wish I could give my dear Mary some nice fat insects to eat. :T She seems to get a fair few, though, living in the kitchen. Big buzzie flies, mostly. :)

[sugaryfun.livejournal.com]

LOL! Life Cry!

The spider's very cool. I once got very attached to a large huntsman (should that be huntswoman?) that lived in my parents' place. We called her Mathilda.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Eww, huntsmans SCARE me. I always ask that they be put outside. They wander far too much for me to be comfortable.

House spiders stay in their little spot. Good spiders.

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

Your tree is lovely! What kind of pine is that?

The second picture made me roar with laughter! Thank God that it's practically a ghost town here in the office today :-D

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's a plug-in-the-brances pine! Fake-a-roonie. I thought that'd be pretty clear with the second shot! :-P

HAhahaha. I'm glad someone thought it was funny!!