My 2 new members to the family.

[Connie Star]

I guess I'm lucky. My husband is interested in anything living, and I accept his hobby of keeping spiders, snakes and other creepy crawlies. He even helps me set up my orchid spaces, and he'll take care of them if I go away. But, he is tired of phals, and worried about spending more money. He's promised to help me set up a shade house. If they love us, they just have to accept our hobbies, right?

[Jeffery]

eeewwww!! spiders and snakes, I'll take the Orchids now that you mentioned it, my wife has no hobbies, she does....... nothing. I guess I have enough hobbies for the both of us, she is really going to be annoyed when I start breeding tropical fish again...hahaha

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by Connie Star

I guess I'm lucky. My husband is interested in anything living, and I accept his hobby of keeping spiders, snakes and other creepy crawlies. He even helps me set up my orchid spaces, and he'll take care of them if I go away. But, he is tired of phals, and worried about spending more money. He's promised to help me set up a shade house. If they love us, they just have to accept our hobbies, right?

I'm very lucky like that as well. A few months back hubby built me a greenhouse just for my orchids, he helps me water them (following round with a bucket as I do each one) he helps me set up for taking pictures, holding up a backdrop and fetching the plants.

He's even learning to know which one I mean if I tell him something like "can you bring me the Den Stardust", rather than having to say "Can you bring me the tall cane like one with the yellowy flowers that's on the end of the mantle piece".

He took me to a grower just before my Birthday and he took me to Kew Gardens and was very very patient on both ocasions as I spent hours with the orchids.

I'm very lucky to have someone who is happy to support my hobby.

[KHaze]

Awww...Rosie your husband is a sweetie! Hope you tell him!

[Tropicgirl]

Originally Posted by Connie Star

I guess I'm lucky. My husband is interested in anything living, and I accept his hobby of keeping spiders, snakes and other creepy crawlies. He even helps me set up my orchid spaces, and he'll take care of them if I go away. But, he is tired of phals, and worried about spending more money. He's promised to help me set up a shade house. If they love us, they just have to accept our hobbies, right?

I do the snake and spider thing, too! You and Rosie sound like you have wonderful hubbies! Mine is pretty great, too. He helps me with anything I need but isn't really interested in any of my hobbies. I just got him into bonsai and that seems to be holding his interest so far. Otherwise, he's more into electronics and tools. Works out great when I need something built!

[nibbler]

Now the spiders I could leave. Nah mines an angel. He isnt really into plants but he says that he's into anything that keeps me happy. He helps with repotting, root trimming. Endless conversations (of me talking) about what new knowledge I just have to share. I dont think he would care if I had 1000 orchids..... just not at the moment. We live in a tiny apartment and we cant eat at our dinner table, I have seeds growing in containers on the floor. I have plants everywhere and I think above else, the size of the Vanda scared him. Unfortunately he is the shopper, not me. I hate it and he drags me around.

[barkingsquirrell]

Sorry Nibbler to keep chiming in on your comments......but it sounds like we have married the same man. hahaha

[Jeffery]

OK!! My spider story, when I went to the Philippines to meet my wife, we went and visited some family members of hers in a jungle city kind of, anyways! I woke up in the middle of the night, cus I had to do a number 2, so I goes in to the bathroom, which in our standards is an outhouse and as I approached the toilet I noticed on the seat cover which was up, this huge spider on it, this is no lie! The damn thing was almost a big as the cover, so I thought to myself, this thing can’t be real, it’s a joke of some kind, so as I got closer to investigate, I blew on it to see if it would move, the damn thing moved, without thinking I shouted ( OOHH MY FU%%ING GOD!!! Will I ended waking up the whole house, of course everyone came to see what was up with me.
So I pointed to the creature and said I need to use that thing…hahaha will of course they told me to just move it and do my business, I am like no way am I going near that thing, I insisted it needed to be killed or something, will after enough complaining by me, a 7 year old girl chased it in to the empty filler tank with a broom, they said it was Ok now… yea right! NO!! its still alive in there, so the girl attacked it inside that tank with the broom and said its dead now, I of course was not satisfied, so she reached in there and produced 1 of its legs, so they cleared the room and that was the most nerve racking no 2 I ever done in my life.
The next morning I was the laughing stock of the village , big white man saved from spider by a 7 year old Filipina girl.
The creature was harmless, but how did I know, far as I was concerned that thing could jump 10 feet and was poisonous.

[KHaze]

OMG Jeffery! I would have had a stroke just seeing that thing! I would no longer have needed to use the bathroom after that if you know what I mean....

[KHaze]

In fact I would have paid that little 7 yr old girl to follow me around with her broom for the rest of my visit!