It's spider season! Shelob the Great has returned to ...

It's spider season! Shelob the Great has returned to my front yard and spun her web between the corner of my house and the corner of the neighbor's - a big frakkin' web for a spider whose body is the size of my thumb. She (well, one of the line - I know they don't live more than a year or so) builds her web there every year. I keep knocking it down (carefully) in order to get to the trash-cans, and it's back in the morning. I'm VERY careful taking out the trash after dark.

(I presume the human bones I found entangled in the web a year or so ago were the postal carrier's - there were letters scattered on the ground, and an empty can of dog-repellant. I presume Shelob used the dog-repellent as seasoning. She's like that)

It's also helicopter season. They're hovering over where the Shuttle is parked, a mile or so from my house. I heard the sirens and beepers in the small hours of the morning.