Will sticky work?
No need to search for a definition, when it comes to “muscle memory”. That’s where I go out, spend some time raking over the dead spots in the lawn until pain begins. The memory part: I remember why I shun the rake as an instrument of torture.
Seriously, though. The dog is uneven in his lawn treatments. You can tell where’s he has been (and where he hasn’t). Who needs herbicide, when there’s a pet on duty? To be fair, he has no role to play in the vegetable garden.
Last evening, she who checks noticed that there were many more spiders than necessary for a happy home. I pointed out that the number coincides with a recent hatch, and that the winner will soon devour the competition. Not the required answer. Now I’m left with trying to find out how a spider trap might work. Does such a thing exist? Based on the sales pitch from Walmart, I should deploy some of my sticky fly thingies, but those don’t catch flies so why should the wily spider be tricked? Going to have to think this through; I favour co-residence with any creature that hunts and sequesters small insects. After all, an occasional web in the face is just part of living close to nature. No, I’ve never been bitten (I don’t think). And webs are way more efficient at collecting flies than those ribbons of goo that the local hardware store flogs.
Oh well, at least we’re rodent free. Could be (much) worse, right?
