There have been more tarantula-related shenanigans since I last posted about it June 9.
First, one crept up while I was hanging out the washing and nearly scared the life out of me. Second, during a walk, we saw a tarantula hawk (which is a wasp, BTW) dragging its prey down the road. Lastly, while walking down the front steps the other night, yet another one scuttled into the shadows near the bottom step. The cat complained at me loudly, as if to say "do something about this!" so needless to say she was no help at all.
I ran to get the broom to hopefully encourage it to go the other direction, but could only find the mop. This is not so good for tarantula herding, but I decided to give it a try. However, the spider had disappeared by then and I could only lock the door and hope it didn't have any ideas about getting inside.
As you can probably imagine, I've been very jumpy lately. Dunno what's up with there being so many this season.
Here's a link about the tarantula hawk, if anyone's interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk