Every morning, as I walk out to water the garden, I walk through a gauntlet of spider webs and industrious spiders. I don't remember having to battle spiders on this big scale last Summer but then again, I wasn't quite as hyper-sensitive as I am this year.
They are sweet little spiders, working hard to build their webs between shrubbery, flower stalks, tree trunks and patio chairs--just trying to do their Summer spider thing and start a family. Teri and I keep moving them out of the way, off into the bamboo hedge or on the edges of the garden and we keep finding them across paths or dangling from our ceiling fans indoors. Sheesh. Come on, Spiders, work with us!
Teri has decided that we need to add "sweeping the webs" to the task list for the day before and the day of the Wedding. Some brave soul or two will need to do a sweep through the yard and garden and then we'll have to run out there and get married before they re-build.
Don't get me wrong, I am a spider fan--I love having them all around the garden to eat the pests and am normally patient with peeling the broken webs off my face. Teri and I delighted in watching a bunch of babies hatch last year on our deck and grow until they spun off amazingly long webs and launched themselves into the world. These aren't the sort of spiders who bite or grow enormously huge--they just want to be sweet little industrious garden spiders in our happy organic garden. But we are about to have 75 people wandering around our garden eating cake and the last thing they need is spiders peeking out at them. So, sorry spiders, but you are going to have hide out for a day or two or build those impressive webs on the edges of the garden for a couple weeks--after that, you can have the entire yard to yourselves!
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