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Brushing my teeth in the morning is usually a benign experience other than the occasional gum bleeding or stubborn flax seed. After I applied toothpaste to my brush and stuck it into my mouth, I glanced down and about lost it.
Waving its legs gracefully in the air was this unwelcome spider. I've never been more thankful for a drain cover whose holes were too small for the arachnid's bulbous body. Running water didn't deter it but eventually hot water swept it away. How did we get a spider traveling up the drain, you ask? Well, our pipes run a short distance on the other side of the wall and are exposed, not sealed like pipes in the States. Any critter has free access to our sink as the picture below shows.
After flushing it down the pipe I went outside to see if it was dead. It was still alive and I was able to take its picture~see it to the left of the lower pipe? Since it was so stout I figured it may have been a female with an egg sac, looking for a safe place to lay its babies. Well, Charlotte, not today; at least not here!
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