Mortal Combat… Simple Living’s Signature Moves
August 30, 2008|Comments (20)
And to think that I would have missed out on this had we been a normal subdivision-dwelling family. This little friendly fellow occupied our garage. Our attached garage.
*cringe*
In Greek mythology, the scorpion is conjured by the gods to hound and punish Orion. It is also said that when Perseus slew Medusa, the blood that leaked out of her severed neck turned into scorpions and snakes as it hit the ground. I just thought you’d like to know.
Whoever said that the simple life wasn’t edgy and dangerous, never met my Ranger husband who catches snakes and brings me scorpions and black widows.
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Mine brings us black widows which we promptly put in alcohol to study. Don’t tell PETA. =P
But that things you posted is too much for me!
Eeeekkk! It looks really nice, but I don’t know if I’d like that crawling around my place…
Cheers,
Rosa
But very cool to photograph!
ewww I remember them from living in AZ years ago.
Now see, this is one of the things about moving to the country that unnerves me. I really don’t like creepy crawlies. Especially ones that sting.
I’m fine with stuff as long as it can’t kill you, or has family members that can kill you. He qualifies as something I am not fine with. :{
My daughter is a huge nature lover and she always caught all kinds of critters. She found a scorpion once, too. She kept it for several weeks in an aquarium.
What neat pictures these are of the scorpion! I’ve not seen many where I live now (knock on wood) but in one place I lived in LA they got in the house all the time. I was stung several times. I hated those scorpions and whenever we saw one me and my 2 kids would both start screaming. lol. Once I even found a dead one in my bed!
My neice has one in a glass jar right now also. Her poinsonous pet is a white scorpion from Wyoming. I prefer them outside. And far from me….
You are now my hero, quoting CSI in your blog!!!!! Josh is silly, tell him if he wants to show you bugs make sure they are dead first!!!! Good luck this week call me when you can!!
We have scorpions here too! I’d rather have the creepy crawlies than mice anyday!!
In our old house, we had them inside all the time. At one point we found two on my son’s ceiling, but they were dead. My husband stepped on one and it really burned. It was an idd-biddy one too. eeek.
We get visits from the same nasty beasties - the sting is similar to an electric shock - that keeps on shocking for a while. None in US are deadly - well none that are native - there are all kinds of goofy people bringing in more stuff that we don’t need here.
My DH is more edgy about spiders than I am - he had the excitement of a brown recluse bite a few years ago - 10 days in the hospital were NOT the best time of his life. Ah - what perfect topic for me to pursue just before climbing into the shower and then to bed (note to self - check the covers before climbing into bed).
My sign is Scorpio and I in turn find them fascinating creatures. Not saying that I would want my hubby with the nice pipes to bring me one though! I could watch them from a distance with a lot of protective gear!
Eeek gads!!!!!!! No thanks!!!!
Lacy: Nicely shown and loved the reflective shots. I wouldn’t handle them.
This post gives me the creepy crawlies.
Here in Arizona, we call these our ROOM MATES!!!!
Oooo…I didn’t know you had those critters there??!! While in AZ, they were my most dreaded of ALL that live there! When we moved back here, the uhaul loaded… set off bombs! Was NOT about to bring any to WA ! My luck, they would survive and multiply!
Yes, definitely one of my top five reasons to live in the North. Too damn cold for any bugs/spiders/critters, etc.
When we lived in Texas I was APPALLED by the amount of creepy crawly things. I hate them!