Returning to La Casa de Tontería after more than a week away, I settled to the usual post-vacation routine: doing laundry and evicting spiders. I killed two in my bedroom, drowned one in the shower, and made plans to clear the shed* when the weather cools next week. Michigan has only one poisonous spider – the brown recluse – but an array of house spiders and wanna-bes.
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