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Aug. 20th, 2010
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Yesterday I saw what Mom would call "a widow black spider" in the kitchen sink and caught it up with a jar lid. It promptly hopped off back into the sink. I tried once more and got it onto the floor. "Don't you have any spider sense?" I asked it as it scuttled away.
This morning I looked in the sink and there was the drowned body of what looked like the same spider. You can't win.
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Yesterday I saw what Mom would call "a widow black spider" in the kitchen sink and caught it up with a jar lid. It promptly hopped off back into the sink. I tried once more and got it onto the floor. "Don't you have any spider sense?" I asked it as it scuttled away.
This morning I looked in the sink and there was the drowned body of what looked like the same spider. You can't win.
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A sad sidelight of the recent trip (which I still plan to write a bit about) was the discovery that my spoon is gone. I've had that spoon since the 70s, keeping it in my back pack for use as needed. For a while, it was part of a pair of spoons, but I decided nobody really wanted to hear me play them.
It was a Navy spoon, with USN on the handle, mid-size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. No sharp edges, just smooth and comfortable. I don't know where it went, but I have a vague recollection of letting someone use it, and thinking I need to keep an eye on it and get it back, and then failing to do so. My own fault kind of thing.
I went to Goodwill and found another spoon I can tolerate, but it's not the same. Does anybody know where I could get another nice old Navy spoon like the one I carried around for 35 years? I'll mention now that I can't enlist in the Navy to get one. This one came from a thrift shop, I have no doubt, as I got it from home to begin with.
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A sad sidelight of the recent trip (which I still plan to write a bit about) was the discovery that my spoon is gone. I've had that spoon since the 70s, keeping it in my back pack for use as needed. For a while, it was part of a pair of spoons, but I decided nobody really wanted to hear me play them.
It was a Navy spoon, with USN on the handle, mid-size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. No sharp edges, just smooth and comfortable. I don't know where it went, but I have a vague recollection of letting someone use it, and thinking I need to keep an eye on it and get it back, and then failing to do so. My own fault kind of thing.
I went to Goodwill and found another spoon I can tolerate, but it's not the same. Does anybody know where I could get another nice old Navy spoon like the one I carried around for 35 years? I'll mention now that I can't enlist in the Navy to get one. This one came from a thrift shop, I have no doubt, as I got it from home to begin with.
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