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Well, I talked a bit about spiders in the last one, but oy my was I not prepared.
At all.
So, after last time, I woke up the next Saturday to one of the giant huntsman's climbing up my arm. I did not deal well with this.
Over the course of that day, we saw 12 more in the house, 2 more the day after and 2 in the car, then one a day for a week or so.
I struggled quite badly for a while, every movement out of the corner of my eye set me off with a full flight/fight response, same for any stray hair re-aligning itself. Couldn't sleep, didn't want to be in the house, didn't want to go anywhere
But as time passed without a sighting, I've re-adjusted somewhat, and can sleep again. Would not care to repeat that experience...
Have had a pest man come and spray the house with poison, which I was against to start with, but my sanity and health made it a requirement, I can't deal with huntsman's all over the house. So now we're dealing with dead bugs everywhere round the house. The millipedes seem to be a bit more resiliant, and make it in to the house, but they don't set me off as much.
And then the rain came, and filled the tanks! Full of gross water that we can't force ourselves to drink, even after going through a Brita filter and being boiled. We'd had the gutters cleaend in the days before the rain, but I think we needed to do a bit more to clean out the bits left behind, wash out the bug poison, clear out the downpipes, and probably give the whole roof a good pressure-wash.
And to top it off, our 11 y/o got a Covid infection from school, so we're isolating and can't go get the bits we need to fix the water. She's doing fine so far, and the rest of us are negative, but an anxious wait until we can go out agian. At least we have 2.1 hectares to walk around on, shouldn't get cabin fever!
I do hope one day to just live in this house without some drama coming up every other week!