Baby Mama...

Soon we will be hearing the pitter patter of little feet around our cozy blog cabin! 800 little feet to be exact! While moving some cinder block P & I ran into this female wolf spider and yep...you guessed it...she is expecting! You can't really see it in the photo, but she is carrying around a giant white egg sac under her belly and inside of that egg is up to 100 babies! Once the egg hatches she will carry all of those babies around on her back until they are old enough to go off on their own. The miracle of life **sigh**

To be completely honest being around her creeps me out big time. I really want to tell her, "Ahem... I am very sorry, but there is no room at the inn", but I would feel awful putting her out in her condition or killing her just because I feel she is ugly...not to mention the 100 babies she is carrying - I am certainly no baby killer...so, we must tolerate her sharing the blog cabin land to raise her small family of 100.

Surprisingly enough, P & I are starting to get used to the creepy crawlies that live around us in the woods, under the rocks and old rotted pieces of wood. I think it may even be some sort of exposure therapy for us or something...the more we are around it, the more it doesn't phase us. P was even brave enough to place a quarter next to our new friend to give the photo some scale.
Perhaps if our baby mama sticks around long enough we will even give her a name...any suggestions??? ;)
-J