Spider House

My seven-year-old son Dashiell and I set up this spider web frame today. I kept him home from school today because he, his brother, and his dad returned late from skiing last night.

Dashiell was awakened abruptly in the middle of the night when his brother barfed on him.

After vomiting on his brother, my ten-year-old son Liam threw up again in a towel, then carried it all the way upstairs to show it to my husband and I.

I thought maybe I was having a nightmare and so, kept trying to go back to sleep. Then my son started crying and the truth came out. “Mom, all dad gave us to eat were cool ranch Dorito chips and Pringles.”

Dashiell had made it up the stairs by this time and was also spilling his guts (maybe I should rephrase that.) He was disclosing his own account of the menu. “Daddy let Liam have Coke at dinner and all the candy we wanted.”

I turned slowly to look over at my husband. to see if I could read his face for an inkling of what really happened. He had that look on his face that my dog gets when he jumps up and steals food off someone’s plate and then gets caught.

My husband suddenly averted his eyes from me and said, “I’ll clean it up, you just try to go back to sleep honey.” Then he scampered down the stairs.

Anyway, today was half-day at my sons’ school, so I let them stay home and we did some work in the garden. The temperature jumped into the eighties today. It was a stellar day.

Dash chose the spot for the spider house. We’ll be checking on it periodically to see if a spider moves in.

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Mr. Wizard

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Comments

[Creative Guy]

Nice garden! Maybe we’ll get to visit sometime soon!

[Annie in Austin]

Oh Chigiy - what a wake-up... and I can relate to having someone bring you the towel so you'd get the full experience.

This Spider House is a new one to me! It looks a lot like a piece of a tennis racquet press, doesn't it? I hope your sons get some web-action.

In Austin, "Spider House" is the name of a coffee house near the University of Texas campus.

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

[amy Bonetti]

OMG you kill me with the throw up story. I hope you kicked Rich's ass!

xo
Amy

[Elise]

Totally. Rich totally deserves a healthy ass kicking for that one!

LOL

[Michael Glaviano]

Hi Chigiy,

Your gardening blog is really cool. I will forward the URL to Lyn. She likes to garden (a lot) but it's reeaally hard to grow stuff here in CO.

Michael

[chigiy Binell]

Creative Guy,
come visit any time.

Annie,
Thank goodness for washing machines and bleach. The spider web frame does look like a racquet! We'll see if the spiders like it.

Ame-babe,
You must have a good throw-up story or two. I wasn't too hard on Rich, after all, he did take the boys skiing and give me the whole week-end off.

Elise,
I think after cleaning up partially digested cool ranch doritos, pringles, bags of candy and coke Rich will do things differently next time. At least I think he will, hmmm....

Michael,
It's good to here from you. I hope you and Lyn are doing great.

[Lily]

I was dying when I read this story. I could hear Dashy's little voice telling on Rich!! Hope they felt better after they had some of your delicious home cookin!

[chigiy Binell]

Lily,
Yes, I taught my kids well to bust their dad like that. Now, if I can only get them not to eat junk food.

[Carol]

I had a spider frame like that a while back...hmmm I don't remember what happened to it. I wonder if I gave it to my sister because I'm just not that fond of spiders.

I hope you soon have one in there!

[chigiy Binell]

Carol,
I don't mind spiders, as long as they stay in their houses.

[dog ramps]

Hi,
Nice post.The spider web frame does look like a racquet! We'll see if the spiders like it.

[chigiy]

dear dog ramps,
The spider web frame AKA tennis racquet works in direct relation with it's location. The spiders prefer somewhere out of the way, then it works just fine.