My friends and family know that I intensely dislike spiders! Someone once told me that they are useful because they (supposedly) eat mosquitoes. Well, if that is the case (and I am not so sure), they are not doing a good job around here!!
Last week I was about to go to bed and I found one in my husband's study. I "dealt" with it and went to the kitchen, turned around and there was a big one, on the floor, right in front of me. I proclaimed my distaste for its presence and went to get my shoe, but by the time I returned it was gone!! No matter where I looked, it was gone!
That little incident prompted me to get started on a project I have been postponing all last semester: deep clean my kitchen. I pulled out everything and started to wash the walls, back and behind appliances, shelves, everything! But, I quickly noticed that washing was not going to be enough.
We have lived here for 8 years (the longest I have EVER lived in one place!!) and it was time to repaint the kitchen. And why limit the job to the kitchen? So, I added the icky hallway to the project and noticed that I then also needed to paint the stairways.
Well, since the weather didn't allow for any further solar oven experiments this week, I went to our local lumber yard and got my paint. At the end of the week, I had painted the kitchen, the kitchen cabinets, added some dimension to the cabinets with a simple crown molding, the hallway, all the baseboards, door frames and doors AND changed my mind a few times. I am pleased! Since I had to work all week I ran out of time for the stairways. Next week I will fix the whole in the plaster and then paint. Maybe I can paint the upstairs banisters too.
And the spider? It showed up again the next night and let's just say it is now in a better place. :-)
I will post some pictures soon.
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Of the dead spiders?
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