For those who prefer a still shot to the video of the tarantula I nearly stepped on in our backyard recently, I offer this photo. This was taken before we put the camera on the grass and let him crawl over it to show everyone how big he is.
I hope I never see him again. I am now very, very careful when I walk outside with an armload of laundry to hang on the line.
This is Pigface. He is the lone bull in a sea of Holstein cows that sometimes graze in the lifeless field next door to ours. Usually, they get to stand in shoulder-high corn and munch happily all day, but sometimes, they get stuck in the dead zone, and come to the fence to get the greener grass on our side.
Pigface terrorizes the poor cows. He’s really quite amorous, sometimes sending a desperate cow crashing into our fence just to get away from him. When I scold him, he just glares at me. He gives me the creeps.