The spiders are now trying to kill us!
Although I have made my great dislike for spiders known in previous blog posts I didn’t think it would get back to them. And even if it did, I didn’t think they would be so upset by my comments that they would want to put a hit out on us and try to blow our boat up! That is apparently what has happened though. Last night while cooking dinner I was having difficulties lighting the burners on the stove, as I often do. This time it was a bit more severe though as the left burner would, after not lighting immediately, burst into a big flame! I only had to try that a couple of times to realize that something was amiss (a smarter person might have stopped after the first near explosion).
I managed to cook dinner using only the right burner. With hunger gone I began exploring the cooktop to see if I could find any obvious problems. I took off the only easily-removable pieces of the burners and proceeded to clean them. I was surprised to find a dead spider inside the left burner. I joked to Rebecca that this guy chose a bad place to hide out. It was then that I found a LIVE SPIDER inside the same burner!!! The same one that had only a short time earlier burst into flames. He definitely had a death wish, and it was only fitting for me to accommodate him. My continued cleaning found a spider web inside the center portion of the burner element. I had remembered reading that we should not leave our barbcue regulator outside in case spiders spun webs in them. Apparently this is why! When I cleaned out the spider web, put the pieces back together again it worked. No ball of fire! I am astounded.
Scared of spiders 😀 What can I say 😉
At least you have your own place on the web 😉 (OK, I’ll get my coat…)
That is worse humor than even I typically bring to the table. 🙂
Oh it gets worse than that when I’m not sober! 😀