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| Monster in the Kitchen! |
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| Cheryl's quick thinking...and snack dish |
With the cooler weather, certain outside creatures are looking for a place to hold up and hide out for the winter. Usually, these are ladybugs and Box-elder beetles. But last night, Cheryl noticed something slightly larger in the middle of the kitchen floor....
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| Look at the size of that quarter! |
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| Cheryl takes it a "safe" distance away. |
I'm not sure what kind of spider this was, but BIG sums it up nicely. After covering it with a dish... and doing the "creepy crawly dance" for a few moments, both of us mustered up the courage to bundle it up and release it outside. As a rule of thumb, we try to not kill spiders. Maybe it is that human biologist in me...or the fact that bug guts are disgusting. Whatever the reason,
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| Hurray for plastic protection! |
Cheryl and I both headed outside to the removal. Cheryl selected a "far enough away from the building" location so the spider will "recognize he is not welcome"... and hopefully pester one of the unsuspecting neighbors instead.
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| Cheryl and Hiro run to safety! |
After we released him, Cheryl fled to a house with Hiro providing security. Everyone knows cats are good protection from spiders...
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| Old and rotted, this pole is history. |
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| I wonder what caused the issue? |
The other thing that is notable today was that the Sewer guys knocked down the power/cable line to the apartment this morning. My suspicion is that the excavator bumped one of the lower lines while digging the trench. Add in that the pole was ancient and rotted...and you have a recipe for disaster.
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| Our "New" power pine pole! |
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| With the new pole up. time to string up the wires.. |
The power guys were swift and agile. They got the power back up before 1:00 PM. Then the Cable guy moved in...
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| Now to connect to the grid! |
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| And now Mediacom get to it. |
This looked like a two man job... but there was only one guy so it took a little longer. The good news is that we finally have the Internet up and now have a new pole with new lines. The bad ( -ish) news is that we were both supposed to score today for ETS....and with our internet... quite literally DOWN down, we were unable to begin on time and thus..unable to participate today. I only say this is kind of bad because after three weeks of scoring for Pearson....I was not particularly eager to get back into the fray.
I'm impressed with MediaCom. They actually came out on the day of the emergency! Usually there is a five day waiting list for things like this.
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