My 2 new members to the family.

[Jeffery]

Originally Posted by 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....

believe me you, I was very reluctant to do my business, I didn't take my eyes off the tank, and sleep wasen't all that great for the rest of the night either, I wasen't even in bed for 15 minutes when I felt something crawling on my leg, I brushed it off and it landed on my wife....hahaha, she laughed at me about the spider, you should had seen her hit the ceiling, bbbwaa hahaha!! it was just a cricket.

[KHaze]

Remind me never to go to the Philippines!

[nibbler]

Originally Posted by barkingsquirrell

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

You are more than fine........ thank god for the different continents. Otherwise I would be getting suspicious

[nibbler]

I do not think there was anything wrong with your reaction..... how are you supposed to know which ones are dangerous and which ones arnt. Its a foreign environment. When we were in Kenya about 1.30 in the morning, he sat up straight and said "Do you hear that" This frightened me more than any noise because he woke me up. He maintained there was a mosquito but we couldnt find it. (not on the same scale as your spider I know) We promptly went back to sleep. 2 hours later I hear buzzing at my ear. I turned on the light and saw it speed down the back of the bed post out to the room. I tried to awake him. I was told to leave him alone!!! now he didnt care I spent 2 hours chasing it around the bedroom before i eventually got him, while my other half slept. Once you know something like that is there you have to get it. Its you or them.

[Connie Star]

Originally Posted by 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.

That is a funny story. But, the really big ones aren't poisonous. I'll have to post a photo of my hubby with the biggest tarantula he's ever had.

He's older and grayer now, but just as lovable

[Connie Star]

You know, it seems like us orchid people are mostly happily married.

[Tropicgirl]

Originally Posted by Connie Star

That is a funny story. But, the really big ones aren't poisonous. I'll have to post a photo of my hubby with the biggest tarantula he's ever had.

He's older and grayer now, but just as lovable

AWESOME spider pic! What kind of spider is that? I have a salmon birdeater right now but I've had so many others in the past. None as big as that one!

I think the key to our happy marriages could be those orchids. The orchids keep us happy and if we're happy then they're happy. Of course, when me and my husband get into a fight, I usually get an orchid instead of cut flowers. Smart man.

[dounoharm]

Originally Posted by Connie Star

You know, it seems like us orchid people are mostly happily married.

or happily single....i think the key here is happy, in that we can find intense pleasure in the smallest blossom of a plant.....

[Connie Star]

Originally Posted by Tropicgirl

AWESOME spider pic! What kind of spider is that? I have a salmon birdeater right now but I've had so many others in the past. None as big as that one!

I think the key to our happy marriages could be those orchids. The orchids keep us happy and if we're happy then they're happy. Of course, when me and my husband get into a fight, I usually get an orchid instead of cut flowers. Smart man.

I'll have to ask Bart. I've forgotten- I know it is from Peru. It died a long time ago, in an accidental fall. It left it's cage which was on a high shelf and fell off. They're ground dwellers.

[KHaze]

That is a funny story. But, the really big ones aren't poisonous. I'll have to post a photo of my hubby with the biggest tarantula he's ever had.

Connie Star...I have no desire to insult a member of you family (the spider not your husband!) but WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!!!!!!!! Yikes! It's so big it looks fake!

It's funny...I love animals, but I just never could get used to spiders. I'm even a little squeamish about bugs. Did he have have to feed it mice? It looks big enough to eat one.

I don't think I could live in a house that had one of those living in it. I'm glad my husband likes cats!