Woolly Spider in toilet one night, then yesterday at noon I opened the mailbox just after the carrier put the mail in and before I could take out the package of new plastic lids to seal up open cat food I was attacked. Really horrific--pain and surprise. Then on the cement I saw a gloating bee. ICE ICE ICE Benadryl, later Tylenol, later hydrocortisone cream. ICE.
Once on White Clay Creek in Delaware or Pennsylvania (surely not Maryland) I heard something fanning and looked up to see coming at me from a treetop a three-inch long yellow wasp. I dodged so that she hit my forehead rather than my eye, but it clearly was deliberate, an ambush, and left a welt I can still show you. The last snake I saw up close was the one the cat was spitting out, in four-inch slices, a few years ago, but I am watching where I step. You never know what is going to get you on the beach. At least there are no mosquitoes in California.
Once on White Clay Creek in Delaware or Pennsylvania (surely not Maryland) I heard something fanning and looked up to see coming at me from a treetop a three-inch long yellow wasp. I dodged so that she hit my forehead rather than my eye, but it clearly was deliberate, an ambush, and left a welt I can still show you. The last snake I saw up close was the one the cat was spitting out, in four-inch slices, a few years ago, but I am watching where I step. You never know what is going to get you on the beach. At least there are no mosquitoes in California.
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