I do wish them well, despite the fact that my skin crawled right out of the room the first time I read about the scorpion lady, when she broke the record.
When we moved to California, along with severe culture shock, we were presented with a whole new kind of "nature." Once upon a time, being afraid of spiders was a silly phobia. Out here...it's not. The first time I killed a Black Widow spider in my kitchen I knew we had a whole new ball game. We also have the Brown Recluse. One bit one of our dogs, causing a dog with four slender legs to have three slender legs and one huge abscessed one. (The vet did great work and she survived, leg intact.) That learning experience helped me save my own leg when I was bitten by a Brown Recluse. I have a nice scar and a story to gross people out with.
We don't have scorpions, but we do have the occasional rattlesnake.
At least we can see the Mountain Lions coming.
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