At her request of me pet sitting I was hesitant, reluctant... but then I thought, how bad could it be? I don't have to hold it, just mist its cage and throw in some crickets (which on a side note are my own personal chirping summer night in a Cool Whip container). I agreed to the task.
Usually when I mist Penelope's cage she retreats further into her log home, but tonight she came out a bit. It was almost as if she was longing for some attention, for the familiar Caitlin hand to lovingly reach out to her. I found myself in awe of her. How could something so hairy with 10 legs be so captivating? You may be cringing and gaging at the thought of this big spider, but I was enthralled by her beauty. Each leg was so carefully placed, one hovering still in the air, waiting.
Waiting? For me? So after much thought and rationalizing, I slowly placed my hand on the bark at the bottom of the cage, inches from her, waiting for her to climb onto my hand.
Unfortunately, my human gut instinct is to pull away from dangerous things (she's not dangerous, but still a spider), so after a few seconds when she suddenly moved her feet forward a HUGE rush of adrenaline poured through my body and I JERKED my hand out of the cage. I had done that without even thinking. My body just reacted.
I never got the courage up to put my hand down again and after a few minutes of gazing at her she retreated into her home.
I'm sorry Penelope, I will try again tomorrow.
3 comments:
YOU are wonderful! I'm so glad you are getting back into "this blogging thing" because it is so amazing what goes on in people's minds! Thanks for that link, it really hit the spot :) It's my new favorite place to go. I am amazed by your boldness to hold the spider. I probably wouldn't be brave enough. Maybe tomorrow... I love it :)
Hey Jamie!
Spiders creep me out. I would love to never hold a tarantula. EVER. Anyway... I'm glad you like my quotes ;-) They're always fun. I didn't know you had a blogspot. :-) I go to Alaska July 5-19. BUT right now, I still need to come up with $1650 by May 20th... and then another $1,000 for the airfare. So.... just trusting God with that, I have no idea where it's going to come from. I was hoping to have a bake sale at tac one sunday, but it's been like a week and a half and I still haven't heard back from Bob, so who knows. And I was hoping to have at least one car wash... but I gave both the dates I booked to Jason for Mexico, so I don't know if that's going to happen. Eh, this comment got really really long, sorry~ Anyway, I still have your souvenier from Tanzania :-) I keep meaning to give it to you, and keep forgetting.
OH! and could you tell me how to add a list of people on the side of my page?? I can't figure it out :-/
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