Anyway, I started to feed a spider. I would catch a fly and throw it into the web while still alive, which wasn't visible to the spider as it would be in a crevice out of sight,
Initially I did it so he would feel the vibration of the fly trying to escape the web and come out of hiding.
In the beginning I wouldn't even see him come out. Just occasionally see him out on the web but not during his lunch.
After a few weeks he would come out tentatively to devour the fly after 20-30 seconds.
As time went by, when I arrived home he would be waiting for me on his web and if not I would call him by name and he would scurry out in a matter of seconds as if to greet me.
This lasted for a good part of the summer.
Then one day I took a nap in the middle of the afternoon on a sofa adjacent to the window.
When I woke, still drowsy, he was on my chest and I instinctively swatted him. As soon as it happened I feared it was him.
In southern interior Canada we don't get many cockroaches if any. I've never found a flea on our dogs, though ticks abound. Had one dog come down with ehrlichia from a tick bite which I had to diagnose as the vet failed to as this tick born disease is not supposed to be here. I relocate spiders and bees outside and will try to avoid stepping on ants crossing the patio. Something to do no doubt with causing death without just cause. Bugs have their role to play and as long as their not wrecking my nest, live and let live. Tinkerbell apparently loves them will everything she has, Other than that I don't tend to bond with insects at all as there is no reciprocity to be had...but each to their own drives I guess. I'd draw the line at naming them and beginning to anthropomorphize a bug. Snakes repel me now. Instinctual? As a grade school kid we used to carry garter snakes/red racers around in our pockets to absolutely terrorize the girls our age. Occasionally there'd be a girl that would be interested in handling the snake, maybe from the same mould as our host here? After our demented fun we'd always let them go in a someone's garden.
OK, this is kinda out there - but so are you Diva :)
There's an asteroid named "Roachapproach" No shit. It's MPC # is 5945. Run one of those extended data natal chart on Astro.com and put that number in the custom objects input box and see where Mr. Roach lands in your natal chart. Or run a transit chart for whatever time it was the other night when you were chatting w/ Mr. Roach and see what that looks like 🤣🪳🤣
I used to do the scream and hop around bits until I got a CABG. Now I just wait dispassionately until they get within striking range of my badminton racquet.
While on vacation in Jamaica I encountered pretty big cockroaches that came out at night "of course" but I didn't see them until the next morning, crushed under the tea kettle, between the kettle and the base. You see I would move in the dark lit only by the moonlight in the wee hours of the morning and of course I would make tea, then return to bed for awhile until it was light out. When I came out to the kitchen and lifted the kettle to make tea, there they were. two huge roaches squished. I had to smile. I would have freaked haha, if I had seen them while alive. There were also small lizards that scuttled around under my bed. I didn't give them much mind. haha.
I can relate.
Back in the 70's I adopted a spider.
Sort of.
Granted it was not poisonous as I grew up in the same town as Bob Zimmerman. Hibbing Mn.
You know, the famous singer songwriter that made a pact with the chief commander (Satan).
https://youtu.be/bV-rwgktvpU?t=885
Anyway, I started to feed a spider. I would catch a fly and throw it into the web while still alive, which wasn't visible to the spider as it would be in a crevice out of sight,
Initially I did it so he would feel the vibration of the fly trying to escape the web and come out of hiding.
In the beginning I wouldn't even see him come out. Just occasionally see him out on the web but not during his lunch.
After a few weeks he would come out tentatively to devour the fly after 20-30 seconds.
As time went by, when I arrived home he would be waiting for me on his web and if not I would call him by name and he would scurry out in a matter of seconds as if to greet me.
This lasted for a good part of the summer.
Then one day I took a nap in the middle of the afternoon on a sofa adjacent to the window.
When I woke, still drowsy, he was on my chest and I instinctively swatted him. As soon as it happened I feared it was him.
It was.
'Sniff'
oh no...OMG...what a story...thanks so much for sharing...
ask any living entity of choice for a commitment, and it will be gone
🤪💋
Both hilarious and connected in an upside-down Taoist kind of way.
I am a big fan of science nerd and YT podcaster Anton Petrov, who recently posted something you might also appreciate ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPy-8gOUl-A, and another equally intriguing, intelligence and consciousness in plants? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnPnze24emg
Cheers from Japan
Thanks, Steve...will check it out.
I spent many years traveling back and forth to Japan...just an awesome country!
Hi Pasheen!
Thanks for the message.
Yes, Japan is indeed, a great place to visit. And for some, a great place to live.
For many, though, particularly the blue-collar working class and the elderly ... too similar to the States for my taste.
https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/why-obaachans-in-prison-japans-elderly/comments
Cheers, and a tip of the shochu to cockroaches and bumblebees!
While living in Hawaii, I got to the point where I could stamp on them with my BARE feet.
That's how much I "love" roaches.
Yours is one lucky guy.
In southern interior Canada we don't get many cockroaches if any. I've never found a flea on our dogs, though ticks abound. Had one dog come down with ehrlichia from a tick bite which I had to diagnose as the vet failed to as this tick born disease is not supposed to be here. I relocate spiders and bees outside and will try to avoid stepping on ants crossing the patio. Something to do no doubt with causing death without just cause. Bugs have their role to play and as long as their not wrecking my nest, live and let live. Tinkerbell apparently loves them will everything she has, Other than that I don't tend to bond with insects at all as there is no reciprocity to be had...but each to their own drives I guess. I'd draw the line at naming them and beginning to anthropomorphize a bug. Snakes repel me now. Instinctual? As a grade school kid we used to carry garter snakes/red racers around in our pockets to absolutely terrorize the girls our age. Occasionally there'd be a girl that would be interested in handling the snake, maybe from the same mould as our host here? After our demented fun we'd always let them go in a someone's garden.
thanks for sharing...
LMFAO ... really! Yes, time to let him go.
😍💋BUT HE IS MY SUPPORT ROACH - IN MY MOMENTS OF ANGST...IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE ME WEEKS TO FIND THAT VASELINE...🤪🪳
Though I have no love for cockroaches, I do not scream or anything. I just sit and wish they lived elsewhere if I see them. Haha!
Remembering Mohamed Ali doing an ad for a pesticide saying: I don't want you livin' with roaches!
OMG, you are so funny. Dying laughing. 😂😂😂
😂😍 I strive to entertain...I used to be a LOT of fun...
OK, this is kinda out there - but so are you Diva :)
There's an asteroid named "Roachapproach" No shit. It's MPC # is 5945. Run one of those extended data natal chart on Astro.com and put that number in the custom objects input box and see where Mr. Roach lands in your natal chart. Or run a transit chart for whatever time it was the other night when you were chatting w/ Mr. Roach and see what that looks like 🤣🪳🤣
Ted Andrews "Animal Speak" has this to say about cockroaches. Sorry for dropping a FB link, but that's where the site is: https://www.facebook.com/100063554653024/posts/cockroachmessages-and-meanings-change-resurrection-hidden-aspect-aloofnesscockro/2147019841980743/
thx...drop any link you like...I will run this by my amazing astrologer friend too...
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1332127695087332/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A+ in the interspecies communications sourcefield zone. Appreciating the Diva's high frequency
truth and action thought-streams - blessings from Glastonbury/Avalon
I've taken care of a butterfly . . . Sounds fine to me, to care.
I used to do the scream and hop around bits until I got a CABG. Now I just wait dispassionately until they get within striking range of my badminton racquet.
While on vacation in Jamaica I encountered pretty big cockroaches that came out at night "of course" but I didn't see them until the next morning, crushed under the tea kettle, between the kettle and the base. You see I would move in the dark lit only by the moonlight in the wee hours of the morning and of course I would make tea, then return to bed for awhile until it was light out. When I came out to the kitchen and lifted the kettle to make tea, there they were. two huge roaches squished. I had to smile. I would have freaked haha, if I had seen them while alive. There were also small lizards that scuttled around under my bed. I didn't give them much mind. haha.