Dayum, Al, that sucks for sure. Glad you're getting better. I don't know if you've ever heard me refer to Tammy as Miss Sierra Club or Miss Enviro-Nazi or not but even though I love her to death, the dingy broad just doesn't know where to draw the line. Everything must be natural and absolutely no pesticides or fertilizers and herbicides on the lawn. Well, since she has arrived on the scene, my lawn has gone from the nicest one on the block to a poor second to any median on any street in the county and there's critters in every corner of the house. She spotted a little spider building a web in her bicycle out in the garage. She showed it to me and instructed me not to hurt it because it was her buddy and she and the spider talked while she did laundry (remember the part about "dingy broad?). Anyway, I agreed and went on my merry way until she told me one day that her laundry buddy was now carrying an egg sac or a bunch of little ones on her back. I didn't know what kind of spider it was so I decided now was a good time to find out. Jumped on the internet and finally located the little arachnid... a Brown Widow...WTF is that? Oh, related to a Black Widow. OK not good. I hosed the bug down with a half can of contraband Raid and disposed of the bodies while Tammy was at class. Told her they must have moved on. I've since secretely murdered about a dozen of the little bastiges around the porch and yard without her knowledge. I also informed her that come spring, our yard will be a virtual Love Canal and that even birds flying overhead will become sickened from all the poisons and fertilizers I'm gonna drop on it. But, we will have lots of green grass.

Hmmmm, sorry to have inflicted my own personal problems with spiders onto your thread...but I feel much better now. Hope you do too.