Beautiful spider! Too bad she's moved on...I always think they are so fascinating to watch...

We have tons and tons of spiders at our new house. I've never seen so many. There are quite a few around the chicken coop (for obvious reasons) but tons around the house as well.

On Saturday, my H was out picking blackberries. The blackberry bushes are heavy with spider webs right now (not so much at the begining of the season). Since H spent some time in Australia where they were warned that most of the spiders were poisonous, he's really afraid of them now. He's out there, carefully picking the berries, avoiding the webs, and singing out loud "I don't like spiders and snakes" when all of a sudden, he sees a spider on his arm. He screams like a girl, flings the berry bowl into the air, and frantically brushes off the spider. I go out to find him trying to pick up all the berries that are now scattered in the grass. If only we'd had it on video...