meet Terry...or maybe Terri

EEK warning if you don't like arachnids!!!

That would be...Terry Tarantula if our new resident is a boy, or Terri if it's a girl. Quite FRANKenstein-LY I'm not going to stop and ask.

Perfect for this Halloween spooky time of the year don't ya think?

 

Okay, maybe I made it look like a REALLY BIG tarantula but it's more on the small side.  Really.

Here's a better perspective of the basement window well its currently picked as a place to stay.

See it up there in the corner?  

Not so big now is it.  At least that's what I keep telling myself.

Tarantula's are native critters up here.  There are usually a few that would show up each season in the picking lugs the peaches were in.  Always a not so nice surprise to a member of the sorting crew.  As a teenager I was with a bunch of friends up on the mountain near the old uranium mine (those cement remains up there) when we sat down to take a break...didn't stay long as an army of tarantula's were marching down the hillside -- end of our hiking expedition!

Wikipedia:  "Tarantulas are becoming increasingly popular as pets and are readily available in captivity."  This one will NOT be a pet.