…cont’d from last week:
Carolyn Howard Johnson (www.howtodoitfrugally.com) loves spiders. In fact she even wrote a poem: “The Man I Love 
and The Writing Spider.” She begged me to send her a picture of one of our “Writing Spiders” also known as the cane spider–so named for hanging out in the sugar cane fields in Hawaii. It earned its “Writing” credentials because of the big white “X” it makes in the center of its web. It then lurks behind the ominous big “X” by aligning each of its legs with the letter…definitely Draculean. And cane spiders are HUGE…about the size of a sardine can. Carolyn thought ours was “beautiful.” Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I think she might need a couple of swigs of carrot juice as an eyesight enhancer while she’s authoring her award-winning frugal series. http://bit.ly/FrugalBookPromo.
Super funny Barb Best (www.barbbest.com) is not a fan of anything spider! “I’m not keen on hairy predators capable of injecting venom. They are–can we just say it–ghastly unattractive in their appearance (sorry Carolyn) and behavior.” However, the one thing that Barb does admire …”the eating of the male by the female after they mate. Saves a lot of time and money on divorce lawyers.” When I told her about the sardine-can size of our cane spiders, she said, “That’s terrifying. In L.A. (particularly Beverly Hills) we have dogs smaller than that!
It’s hubby Tom who has the best solution for putting the crab spider to sleep…permanently. It’s called a propane torch. Kind of like a giant barbecue lighter. Nighty Night, Spidey. Poof!
My bedroom nightmares are over…oh…except for George Clooney, of course. (Please see Part 1).
Lorraine is a former needlecraft designer who formed her own company (Fingerworks, Inc.)
during the 1970’s and 80’s. With this marketing experience, she ventured back into her chosen
field of film and television and rose up the ranks as an executive with Warner Bros. (Time-Warner). She is also a landscaping professional, author, humorist and artist. She has published four books: “The Tale of Peeky Peeper” (a fun children’s rhyming Holiday book, which she also illustrated); followed by her humorous memoir, “A Nobody in a Somebody World: My Hollywood Life in Beverly Hills.” Playfulness is the theme in whatever she does, as you’ll see in the two versions of her puzzle-like charted coloring books: “Griddles.” When she’s not creating something, you’ll find this 82 year-old grandma whacking a Pickle Ball, teaching movie
history, testing new recipes on her husband, Tom, or serving on the board of the Del Webb Performing Arts Center in Wickenburg, AZ.