10-24-2012, 07:53 PM | #34696 |
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Pooh, I know just how you feel. I too am deathly afraid of spiders, but when a little bitty red one (about 1/2" from leg to leg) spun its web in the upper corner of my shower when I lived in California, I became fascinated and couldn't take it down! Not quite as fascinated as you've become... I took some Artist's Plasticizer Spray Fixitive and coated the little bugger and its web. It stayed with us in the shower for two years. Oddly enough, it never moved.
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10-24-2012, 07:59 PM | #34698 |
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You have a kind heart, pooh.
Me, I love those spiders. We call 'em writing spiders because legend has it that if they write your name in their webs, you'll soon die. They're completely harmless, and as a kid I would often catch them and let them build webs all over me. While it looks like a white zig zag to us, the "writing" looks like a flower to insects who are viewing it with eyes that see in the ultra-violet spectrum. We currently have one of those big orange spiders right outside our back door. For two days I ducked under the web, then my son came by and destroyed the web. The spider built it back, but only half-way so I no longer needed to duck under it but instead simply side-step it for the last couple of days. I thought maybe it had learned its lesson, but today it reconstructed the web to again cover the entire top half of the doorway. I'm afraid I wasn't feeling too charitable at the time and brushed it aside rudely while saying something rather unpleasant to the spider. In a while, I'll go back out to the gazebo to read a bit. If the spider is there again, I'll catch it in my hand and put it beside the rear window. Maybe it'll take the hint. Speaking of wildlife, a young robin got into the gazebo today and couldn't figure out how to get out. After chasing Chrystal and Norton away, I tried to demonstrate where the doorway was and the screen wasn't, but my fine feathered friend turned out to be a real birdbrain. So I placed my hands under the screen where the exhausted critter fell into them and I walked out of the gazebo with it. Once outside, it realized it was free and the robin took off out of my cupped hands like a bat out of hell without so much as a "CHIRP chirp", which as everyone knows is robinspeak for "Thanks, pal." |
10-24-2012, 08:38 PM | #34699 |
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Thanks all for your kind thoughts ....
Tom - I never knew about the writing! I'll be watching closely now to see if any strands look like "POOH" - just in case I stop posting here ... I know those big orange ones - I don't like them b/c if you brush one of the down strands of their web they drop onto you! Yes, it has happened to me! They build on the eaves over our deck - this time of year you need to clear the doorway with a yard stick before stepping out first thing in the morning. |
10-24-2012, 08:48 PM | #34700 |
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10-25-2012, 08:31 AM | #34701 |
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@ Poohbear...I would like to say that we are afraid of the things we do not understand but that would be a lie. I am terrified of thunder & lightening storms. But I do find there are times when I can watch one without feeling afraid (mostly ) much like you have done with your little spider.
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10-25-2012, 02:06 PM | #34703 |
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pooh, I am glad you were able to appreciate that little spider, but I would like you to know that I had nightmares about them last night. They were making webs over my doors to the house.
Next, there was crime scene tape over both doors and police cars were parked in the street. Then my dream did a transition to a CSI type program trying to discover how those spiders were involved in the mysterious death of the resident of the house. *I really hate spiders* Right now, I am drinking too-strong coffee to wake up after those nightmares last night. |
10-25-2012, 02:34 PM | #34704 |
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Yikes! You had the nightmares I was dreading! It sounds ridiculous, but naming her Emily made her much less threatening to me. Of course, if I go home and find her on my recliner, that attitude may change ... Watch a couple of Winnie the Pooh movies - they'll give you warm & fuzzy dreams [unless you're frightened by the Heffalumps & Woozles!] |
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10-25-2012, 04:13 PM | #34706 |
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Thanks pooh. I pulled out my Eeyore coffee mug for my coffee this morning to chase away the leftover scary thoughts.
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10-26-2012, 02:55 AM | #34707 |
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Trying to figure out where Toochow is. Are there any really old people who know the Asian region out there? Google doesn't seem to understand what I am talking about. There is obviously a new translation out there. It doesn't help that the document I am trying to read is from 1881, and it could possibly be Foochow???
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10-26-2012, 03:13 AM | #34708 |
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Maybe it could be Taochow (or something like that) in China but I don't know if it has a port.
(Look here for instance: http://www.gomapper.com/travel/where...w-located.html) |
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From "The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ..." Toochow was the ancient seat of Chinese embroidery, but at Canton and Ning-po a great deal is now worked, particu- larly large screens, fan cases, and robes,.... And from New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6567, 4 December 1882, Page 7, it appears that Toochow embroidery was part of a ship's manifest along with other Chinese goods. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. ) Saturday 23 May 1885 Page 8 also mentions Toochow, as does The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW ) 7 September 1885 on page one discussing shipping to Hong Kong and Toochow. However, it very well may be an incorrect transliteration from Soochow, which is near Shanghai. Hong Kong and Shanghai were both very active shipping ports, especially in the late 1800's. I've seen a LOT of 'Japanglish' that interchanges 'too,' 'tsu,' and 'soo.' Might be a problem with Chinese too. I don't speak enough of it to know. Stitchawl Last edited by Stitchawl; 10-26-2012 at 04:47 AM. |
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10-26-2012, 04:47 AM | #34710 | |
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Interlesting - I also only found very old references to Toochow. I didn't find the embroidery thingy though.
the passengers mostly originated from Canton, which I think is Guangdong. A big place. Quote:
My first guess was that Toochow was the port for Canton??? It would appear that the name has been lost to current use. I need a chinese friend to sort out this whole (mum's grandfather) thing. |
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