tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post3886525923400415502..comments2024-02-27T04:03:14.140-08:00Comments on Chickenbone Jones: TenantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-71057642967504033172007-10-22T10:51:00.000-07:002007-10-22T10:51:00.000-07:00It is a strange story how I happened upon your blo...It is a strange story how I happened upon your blog. I also found a marbled orbweaver. Only spiders in the open scare the bejesus out of me, so I captured it in a water bottle. I fed it ants and another smaller spider, and am now looking up specific information about the spider. Which lead me to your page. Strange that I thought I alone was special when I found my spider. Now it appears we both are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-65788515821936688762007-10-07T19:37:00.000-07:002007-10-07T19:37:00.000-07:00Wait a second. This is a weird small world. I clic...Wait a second. This is a weird small world. I clicked Kathleen's name and it went to her site, Fashion-Incubator, which I read all the time. She also lives in N.M. and has helped very patiently with my silly fashion industry questions. And here she is on Chickenbone Jones!?Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705945874281580302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-70352351629831031682007-10-06T22:42:00.000-07:002007-10-06T22:42:00.000-07:00Thanks, Kathleen! I do feel oddly blessed - or, at...Thanks, Kathleen! I do feel oddly blessed - or, at the very least, entertained. I go out and check on it at least a couple times a day. It's a little freaky when it isn't in the web (where is it? on the roof? in a tree? in the kitchen, fixing itself a sandwich?) so I'm always glad when it comes back. <BR/><BR/>(p.s. I call it Orbie.)Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047831268581395818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-15710907856557110012007-10-06T16:26:00.000-07:002007-10-06T16:26:00.000-07:00Everything is dying...when I was a kid, horney toa...Everything is dying...when I was a kid, horney toads were everywhere, I haven't seen one in over twenty years. All the frogs and amphibians are dying. Bird populations, down by over 65%. All of these things are connected. I hope you don't kill it. Maybe it'll get eaten by a bird or a lizard or even a bat (spiders are their food) but in the meantime, it'll eat your flies and mosquitos. If you find them in unwelcome corners, you can move them. I won't even kill black widows altho I will take their egg sacks. <BR/><BR/>Yours is so pretty, you've been blessed, it's a gift. What a lovely spider to have. I blog about the spider who lives under my cooler in the summer. A "writing" spider (I think she was illiterate) none of her kind came back this year. In what I think is related, our barn swallows only produced two broods this year; they usually have three. Maybe someday soon, we won't have any more spiders at all :(.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-56392963458635546682007-10-05T14:17:00.000-07:002007-10-05T14:17:00.000-07:00T-shirt Face, I went outside today and studied the...T-shirt Face, I went outside today and studied the spider as it wrapped a moth in webs and then sucked out all its blood. And a Google image search confirms that you are absolutely right. It is, in fact, a marbled orbweaver. Perhaps I should give you some sort of prize. Can of Raid?Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13047831268581395818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-4025867684848491912007-10-05T08:27:00.000-07:002007-10-05T08:27:00.000-07:00I have a few things to say:a) I also have blackene...I have a few things to say:<BR/><BR/>a) I also have blackened out the tarantula picture in my dictionary and have for years because I ALWAYS opened up to that page. WE BOTH DO THAT?!<BR/><BR/>b) I understand the confusing pull of hating insects and spiders yet not wanting to murder them. I have the same rule about once they trespass indoors, they've asked for it. But I usually still scream "sorry spider, sorry spider!" as I beat them to death.<BR/><BR/>c) my natural response to seeing a bug, and I've noticed it happens even when I see one on TV, is to scream "help me! help me!"Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705945874281580302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-70938005773159474792007-10-05T07:57:00.000-07:002007-10-05T07:57:00.000-07:00Looks like a marbled orbweaver. Literature says i...Looks like a marbled orbweaver. Literature says it drops from the nest if disturbed (so I wouldn't disturb it if I was standing under the web), and main food source is chihuahuas and small people.T-shirt Facehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05856834905986535810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-36080095742438953062007-10-05T07:29:00.000-07:002007-10-05T07:29:00.000-07:00I take great comfort in the fact that I might have...I take great comfort in the fact that I might have played a role in the spider's life extension (as temporary as it may be). Would it be stretching it to say I kinda feel like I was the Gov that made the call on the red phone two min before execution?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-58764382354425333372007-10-04T20:47:00.000-07:002007-10-04T20:47:00.000-07:00I'm surprised you could even type "spider" that ma...I'm surprised you could even type "spider" that many times.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16899954847186630520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-63181721343654098012007-10-04T16:43:00.000-07:002007-10-04T16:43:00.000-07:00Wow, that's one hella big spider. But you have to ...Wow, that's one hella big spider. But you have to figure that a spider that big is eating things that big... so your yard and home are freer from bugs than before. He'll move on soon enough. <BR/><BR/>Chickens is cuter than any spider alive, but I do admire your new found compassion. Maybe we're both a little more compassionate about the spiders in our lives, huh? ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6566978019766033796.post-36978971721601926622007-10-04T15:23:00.000-07:002007-10-04T15:23:00.000-07:00You get lots of hits because "Chickenbone" is one ...You get lots of hits because "Chickenbone" is one of the funniest blogs out there. And believe me, I've read, like, 5-10 in my lifetime. I read regularly even though I react to dogs the way Amy reacts to spiders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com