Who needs nature programs?

[jain]

I've been keeping a nervous eye on a fat, two-inch spider crawling up the inside of my window, and a much less nervous eye on a similarly-sized spider spinning a web on the outside of the same window. A bird just flew up, hovered for a second so that it could grab the spider--I heard the click as its beak tapped the glass--and flew away again. Coolest. thing. ever.

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[jain]

See, that would have been the clever thing to do. Instead I wibbled while the spider settled down at the top of the windowframe for a bit of a rest, and then, when I finally decided that I had to do something about it, I found that it had disappeared. As did a third terrifyingly large spider that started spinning a web directly over my bed. (I tried to capture that one, but I couldn't reach it.)

I ended up pulling my bed out into the middle of the room and sleeping with the light on last night.

[jain]

I'm safe! The spider that had been spinning a web above my bed came back to the same spot to do it again, and I used the paper/cup trick and put it outside. (I had to stand on my soup pot to reach it.) Flush with that success, I came back and noticed that the other spider was spinning a web between my window and the stormwindow, so I carefully opened the window and captured it, as well.

Then I came back from disposing of the second spider and started to dust away the cobwebs in my window, only to find yet another spider. Luckily, this one was only an inch in diameter rather than two inches, so it wasn't too scary, even though it was twice as fast as the other two. It's outside now, too.

I swear, I'm going to start squishing the motherfuckers if they don't let up.