Late lunch today. Wanted to get over the hump on what I was working on. Beautiful day, by the time I got out: sunny, 60º, some breeze. It was window down weather. Big bug came in the truck. Saw it and heard it, over my left shoulder. After confirming I hadn’t trapped something offensive like … Read more
During the summer months, there is frequently a hunting spider of one sort or another around our back door. If they’re small enough, they’ll even hang out between the door and the jamb (the cool little jumping spider with the neon-green palps and the huge eyes does that a lot). Not tough to figure out; … Read more
Lea and I built our house, in a subdivision that used to be a cotton field, seven years ago. It’s not quite shonuff “out in the country,” but it’s definitely not two blocks off a thoroughfare like Lea’s house, where we lived for three years, was. We didn’t move far—about 15 miles the way the … Read more