Today we’re going to discover how to decorate your home for the Halloween holiday, the natural way!
Shelob decorates the Cirque house
First, talk to all of your neighbors and ask them to not turn on their front porch light at night. If you are lucky enough like me, your neighbors never read their letters from the HOA and are already leaving their lights off even though we’re supposed to turn them on to deter crime! (We’ve had a few car break-ins.)
Second, turn on your front porch light every night for at least a month prior to Halloween. Then watch delightfully(?) as every spider in the neighborhood builds a new home all around your front windows and door!
Then, voila! You’re decorated for Halloween! Naturally! It’s a good thing?
P.S. For those of you who know me well, you know I’m seriously afraid of spiders. This has been a struggle for me, especially coming in the door at night when all of them are out catching their moth dinners. Shelob made her rare appearance during the day on Thursday, so I snapped this shot. I do feel safer with the light on and I just can’t bring myself to kill them. As long as they stay outside and away from me, we’re all good. Plus, winter is on its way so they won’t be there much longer.
I’m shivering and shuddering over here. I’m also terrified of spiders but strangely fascinated too–from a distance. I can’t let them camp out on the front porch b/c I inevitably walk through a web at some point while taking out the trash or checking the mail and am then forced to slap at myself in an effort to kill the phantom spider that resides in said web.
I’m okay with the critters staying on the back deck when I know I won’t be venturing out there. We get the spiders that build the giant round webs and only come out at night. They’re light brown with some red markings and they get enormous. They like to make their web right in front of the back sliding door which a perfect place to view them from the safety of my kitchen, with a pane of glass separating us. I still don’t get too close! Happy Halloween!
“Plus, winter is on its way so they won’t be there much longer.”
hehe. you know where they’ll be then, right?
I decorate that way, too. They catch a ton of mosquitoes in the summer and when things get icy, I just sweep away all the cobwebs. I have lost pretty much all aversion to spiders. My boys love them. They’ll walk into my room with one in their hand and I cringe that it is hovering over my bed, but I casually tell them to take it back outside. So far, they have obliged and none ended up on my bed.
lil’ mary — LOL! Too funny about slapping yourself over a phantom spider. It’s a great visual.
goofydaddy — I like to think they go underground.
shellie — Wow, kudos! I think I’m going to FREAK if/when Monkey gets to that phase.