During supper time Auntie Joy came up and asked for help catching a large spider in her bedroom. She is collecting them for the Hafler family. The picture here is of the same kind of spider but one that we found already dead outside.About an hour later Auntie Kristie came to the door and asked if we wanted to see a couple snakes that they had just killed on the sidewalk in front of their apartment. (If you would like to see the picture you can visit Joy's blog at http://joyinafrica.wordpress.com/ ). They were a couple of small black mambas (small but very deadly). Our dog, Zambi, was the one who announced that the snakes were there - he was the hero of the evening!
After Joy finished blogging about the snakes, spiders, etc she was walking back down to the apartment and found an even bigger tarantula on their door step. We caught this one as well for the Hafler collection.
We are thankful for the Lord's protection that no one has been bitten by any of these creatures. Also that most of the nasty ones have been at the apartment and not our house ; )
3 comments:
Thanks for being my fellow arachnid (?sp) catchers. :)
Auntie Joy
Hi Smiths,
I have very much enjoyed your blog and seeing things that I haven't seen in 9 years. The concrete slab on the termite mound used to have a water tank on it... makes me wonder what happened to it, of course with all the leaks it had it's no small wonder it's gone. I buried a 7' python at the back of the termite mound once and remember well the spiders and wildlife that seemed to spring out of nowhere in the rainy season. It may seem funny, but it was neat to see mango leaves again and a real chamelion. If you like such things (and you may know this already) you can take the wings off of the flying termites and dry roast them. And if you want to sleep well at night I once found a 8' newly shed mamba skin lying around and I don't think anyone has killed one that big around there yet. Anyway, enough about me, it's good to see what the Lord is doing there in Zambia and am thankful that the work goes on.
In Christ, David Washer (Auntie Joy's annoying brother)
"Kaji", yes, the water tank was taken down due to all the leaks. Dad put up a fibreglass one on a tower beside the anthill.:)
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