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Today in 1916, Mary the circus elephant was publicly executed in the Erwin, Tennessee railyard, after killing a drifter named Red Eldridge the previous day. The five-ton animal was hanged from a derrick car in front of 3,000 onlookers, and left hanging for half an hour. Yes, you read that correctly - they hanged an elephant. Because shooting it would have been so boring.

This morning I opened my front door only to discover that a writing spider had built a web entirely across the entry way. It was big enough that I couldn't even duck under it! Ms Spider was hanging out at the top of the doorway. I told her that I was sorry but the area wasn't zoned for her habitation, and I carefully swept the web down. She hung onto the door jamb, so I moved her to the gardenia bush next to my steps, and I left to go to the Post Office. When I got home about twenty minutes later, she had started another web across the stair railing leading to my front door! Ms. Spider has been relocated to the yard of the uninhabited house next door, where I hope she'll be happy.

It's so good that the Beetle is away this weekend - with his bug phobia, he'd have had nightmares for a month.

Funny!

Who's Sebastian? Yes, it's an ad, but it's fun. Not as good as the Big Lots merman, but still.

And yes, beatrizwench, Sebestian Devanagali has much better hair.

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I can't believe this...SHE IS BACK.

She is currently building a web across the window next to my front door. I went out to talk to her, and we agreed that as long as she builds across the window and does not impede my doorway, she can stay.

That's right, I was on my front porch talking to a spider.