The saga of the spiders...Chapter Two: The spiders get new homes

Last year my dear friend who lives in NYC sent me two little spider babies from her houseplant. They have come quite a long way, and were recently planted alongside my house, in their own cement tubes...I hope they do well planted this way...we will see.

One of them is quite a bit larger than the other with many babies, but both are doing well, and enjoying being desert spiders. They have great memories of the big city though...they tell stores about the views of the Empire State Building they had...and how their home was way up in the sky! Their stories keep those baby spiders entranced during the long hot desert afternoons. I've seen the butterflies pause and listen too....
Happy Saturday!!!!!!!!!!

Saga of the Spiders: Chapter 1: NYC Spiders move to Tucson

Early last October, two little spiders arrived at my home in Tucson, via the US Mail. These two cute little guys, had journeyed clear the way from my wonderful, dear friends home in NYC, where they had so far lived all of their short lives in her warm and cozy kitchen. I promptly planted them both, in outdoor pots, as the weather was still very warm, and I don't have much luck with houseplants. The picture below, shows them both, newly planted.

October passed and one of them remained upright and frisky, mingling in with all the other plants and enjoying the company of the exotic pointy plants he discovered around him. The other though, was wilty and sad, and didn't want to mix with the other plants, but moped a little more as each night got a little colder.

Sometime mid November I brought the wilty one inside, gave him a nice glass of water with some rocks to twirl new roots into. I placed him on the sill of a window with a view out to the other plants, and he settled right into his solitary new home. I'll keep him in water for awhile, and let the new roots get strong, then maybe next Spring when it warms up he can join the hardy crowd outside!

Here are pictures of the two of them!