This is done.

Attachment 58317

You're welcome.:)

Ready for Halloween?

And now for something really scary...

Attachment 58375

Not quite what you think. I think.

Used to be a guy that sold and installed window blinds in Bowling Green, KY.

He had a bug shield on the hood of his truck that said "BLIND MAN DRIVING" in reverse lettering, so ya could read it in your rearview mirror.

EEK!!!

I'll see your 'eek', and raise you a 'gasp':

Attachment 58566

Was 5 minutes from home when I got the call that I better be there in 3.

My wife had this not so little guy cornered in the hallway. Luckily it was not a bold spider so it stayed still until I got home. With a plastic cup and some paper I had the guy trapped (though I had a shoe on hand in case it made a move for me). He's pretty harmless but scary as hell to see in the house.

Released in the backyard (far from the house). More bugs to eat out there anyway...

Just an fuzzy wuzzy spider... Texas sized. :lol2:

Great Caesar's ghost!!!

Poorer quality on this guy because it's outside near the top of the 5th floor window of the office building where I work. It's between the window and its web, thus facing outward.

Back of the envelope calculations tell me this guy (at about 2 inches) is up the equivalent of 175 spider floors. So basically if you scaled Burj Khalifa and hung out waiting for a moth.

Nice.

What is the terminal velocity of a spider that size, I wonder. Far less than mine, I reckon.

For what it's worth:

I see about 120 mph for a skydiver's terminal velocity (in the standard flat position with arms/legs out, compared to a Point Break style chase at about 300mph).

This article measuring spiders came up with a max of about 1.7 mph (78 cm/s)

Ballooning: Data from Spiders in Freefall Indicate the Importance of Posture
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...A_v20_p107.pdf

Poison Pine
 

In Australia even the Christmas trees are lethal, in a manner of speaking. :eek:

Attachment 58872