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Finally got a decent photo of our black pug. He's a beut! He has to think about things alot before dealing with them. He has to sniff and sniff and sniff on a spot and think about what it all means. While the boston terrier would just take a quick sniff and head out looking for things to eat or things to chase. The collar he wears has lots of spikes on it ... just to keep Sheba from chewing on it or using it to pull him around.

-- the substitute bus-driver and retired psychobabbler ...

Friday, July 18, 2008

Spider & Fire

This spider has taken up residence outside of our screen door ... toward the corner of the wall.  You can see the zig-zag web ,,, but there is also some very fine webbing stretching in a wider area ... not very visible  Is it poisonous?  I have no idea.  
Out in the shop, the fiddle-back or brown recluse spider makes a web that looks like a dense but sloppy cobweb ... just kind of sticking things together (whatever is handy to connect it to) ... no beautiful symmetry to it.

The fire extinguisher is now empty ... it really doesn't hold a lot ... maybe enough to cool down your brake pads a little so they don't burst into flame ... igniting the tires ... and then burning down the truck & trailer.  It might stop an engine fire if you catch it real quick ... while it is still fairly small (the first little puffs of smoke) ... otherwise it won't stop it and you'll just end up with an empty fire extinguisher like this one.  And a burned out car sitting there.  It's a BANG! when the tires explode ... and there are one or two other things that explode putting silver bubbles into the air (I have no idea what they might be).  Very impressive ... if you aren't the teenager standing there crying because her Jeep Wrangler just burned to the ground.

3 comments:

wilkinson family said...

lol, glad that wasn't me. poor kid.

Abigail said...

I'm impressed you're letting the spider live. As pretty as spider webs are, they aren't allowed to live within 5 feet of my home!

Freth Stifter said...

You've heard of porch lights and flying bugs ...??

Well, this spider has cut down the amount of flying bugs bothering us as we go in and out the door ...