Is fear of spiders a world wide thing? I think so but I wonder why some people are terrified of spiders and others will pick them up and carry them outside. Which are you? 
I am of the latter variety.
This time of year the spiders are spinning their webs everywhere. Overnight they can cover a doorway in their delicate needle work.
My track to the Other Side is lined with reeds and this time of year I have to wave a stick in front of me to break the webs as I walk along. They build these strong webs from one side to the other. And I can hear the little spiders sigh as I pass through and they quickly start all over again in my wake.
I imagine their disgust when all they catch is me in their beautiful knitting. I am endlessly washing webs out of my hair. I don’t mind really but I would rather not go to the supermarket with spiders riding along on the sleeve of my jacket.
Today I am meeting with a man who grows grains of all kinds and mills them into flours. This meeting is part of my search for local pig feeds. When he switches from grinding one grain to another he has a short run of overlap where the grains get mixed. This is unsellable and is considered a byproduct. So I am doing some investigation.
One mans byproduct can become another woman’s pig food. Or at least a component on her pigfeed.
He tells me he has a small pellitiser (sp) that we can experiment with. Today will be interesting.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
I am having such trouble loading pictures from either my phone or the camera onto WordPress using my computer. I get the photos in there but they take hours to load onto the page. I cannot work out the problem. So I am writing and publishing this post from the WordPress app. It is useful but limited.
The Kitchen's Garden 
99 responses to “ARE YOU AFRAID OF SPIDERS?”
Totally with you on the spiders. I always carefully carry them outside. On the other hand, I am not a fan of snakes. I find it is usually one or the other for people.
Hmm – now that is an interesting theory- we should ask the snake question too!
I was told spiders or mice… I much prefer spiders, although I don’t carry them outside, just let them be.
We have so many spiders in the house it would take all week to carry them
Out. Just keeping up with the cobwebs is almost impossible!
Just the word “spider” sends shivers up my spine. I can’t even get close enough to kill it! I am not bothered by other insects or animals. It is strange.
So you are a snake person then?
Don’t mind them at all.
I don’t mind catching them (in a bowl or cup) and taking them outside but I wouldn’t want one crawling over me!
There is something unnerving about a spiders on oneself whereas a fly is just annoying.
So true!!
I don’t mind spiders either. Catch them and put them outside. Its odd though, as one of my daughters has a real fear of them, even though as she was growing up I did my best to show them in a positive light.
Interesting- I think it is a primitive brain reaction. Like an ancient dinosaur memory.
Beautiful photo. I love the beautiful spiderwebs, they are great 💜
Have a nice day, Karin
Good morning, Karin!
This time of year, not a day goes by that I don’t walk into a spider’s web. I have to remember to keep my mouth shut as, well, I’ll just say the don’t taste very good. 😦 There is a spider who each and every day, for several weeks now, spins a web outside our big sliding glass doors. We watch her, nose-to-nose, from the inside, spinning away. Sadly, either a something happens by that breaks the nest, or we open the door and slide the screen, but, she rebuilds.
They are so stoic. Endlessly rebuilding.
That picture of the spider, spider web and sunrise is beautiful! I’m glad you waited for that to load. It was worth the wait.
The images load super fast when I work in the app. As long as I take the picture with my phone. Much easier.
I read that it is a Solar flareup that is causing so many technolgy problem…here we have more than usual problems with tv and phones….. Your project sounds really great and profitable to both ..no possible source of food should be wasted… You do get some brilliant ideas!
The slow loading into WordPress has been going on a while. Maybe my file is full there. But I don’t have the time of energy to find out the problem- I will when I will.
I had a woman once ask me not to put photos of spiders on my header or in my blog because she couldn’t read without total panic! Ha ha. I love observing spiders and I’m kind to them. We have several right now that build their webs around 8:00 each evening (I notice as it’s usually when I let my little dogs out) and they take them up by 6:30 in the morning. I have not seen the usual garden orbs, but I’m sure they’ll be showing up anytime now. I have also noted many black widows in our storage building over the last couple of weeks. It’s definitely spider season!
Yup! Spider season indeed. Poor people that cannot look. I have already warned chgjohn not to pop in today. He is the same as your friend!
Am l afraid of spiders..knew l had missed something …it depends on the size l think…my house spiders ( they dont pay rent) they are useful as they catch the midges in their webs..but l would like to know how they work so quick. I catch them on mop..flick it outside ..and blow me within a short time they are back again. Also outside in the garden l have the same problem as you..l walk face first into web and it gets stuck in my hair. The outside spiders bite as well…l think somewhere in BG they have poisionous ones..just hope its not my garden
Yes!! I also clean up webs every day from the same corners – they are fast!
I made a deal with the spiders. They can live in the corners, as long as they don’t make too much mess. In return I expect them to keep me bug free. Sometimes they let me down and fail miserably when it comes to mosquitoes. I draw the line at large spiders and relocate them outside.
Large spiders should definitely live outside.
Definitely the ones that bite!
It seems that there are certain times of the year that spiders are happily spinning everywhere, and other times when we don’t need a stick to swath a path through the webs as we walk about the farm. Thinking about it, it seems to be the wetter, heavier dew mornings when they are still busily spinning in the mornings, as opposed to the drier weeks we often have here in the summers. Spiders are beneficial to the environment! And they certainly help control the insect population anywhere they choose to spin!
Yes! And yes! So you carry a spider stick too? Excellent.
I am not good with spiders but the only one I could never kill is the golden orb weaver writing spider. They are definitely the most beautiful spider I’ve ever seen. We had one that lived on our porch and we would feed her. =] ❤
Oh my goodness Martha- thank you I will look them up. My mother also had a spider – it lived in the wash-house and she called it Elizabeth.
What about snakes ? Do you like snakes?
I don’t mind spiders, but I dislike the feeling of scurrying little legs, so I transport them on a sheet of card under an overturned glass. Mind you, we do have some seriously nasty spiders Down Under, and a bite can be not only painful but also make you extremely sick. I’m probably not as cautious around them as I should be… We don’t get a lot of them around the house as we have geckos, who eat not only the flies and mozzies, but also spiders if they can get hold of them. When I do see them, I tend to leave them alone, even the enormous hairy Huntsman spiders (harmless, but intimidating!).
I have never seen the huntsman. Hopefully never will. Australia is heaving with spiders and snakes that are poisonous. Interesting really how that evolved.
And small fluffy creatures with poisonous spurs, and deadly miniature octopi, and crocs and sharks and jellyfish and scorpions… But 99% of the time, you don’t see a thing and life is normal.
Exactly!