I like lists. Grocery lists, to-do lists, task lists. There’s something about checking things off my list that gives me a sense of satisfaction. So here’s my list of things I’m afraid of:

Spiders (literally, 7-year old girl screaming scared)
Bees (or any version of something that buzzes)

That’s a pretty short list, but the one on the top is as big as most people’s top 10 list. Much to my displeasure, as we were moving the horse fence in preparation to build our shed, this not-so-little visitor parked himself on one of the corner posts. I wasn’t about to go over and remove the fence wire from that post!

My first reaction was to put a boot in him. My husband stopped me from doing that and I guess he does have a point. They eat bugs. Okay, so what are a few more bugs around here and a few less spiders? I can live with that!

He has since moved his web between two of the wall posts on our shed and I try to keep our son from driving his tractor right through it. I don’t think the spider would do any damage to our son, but since he’s the size of my palm (the spider, not my son), I’m not taking any chances.

Until we walk again …