When we first moved to Texas, some friends came to visit us from Nashville, our former home. My husband and our friend were going to the store, and as they backed the car out of the driveway, they noticed a black thing on the driveway. Our friend said, "Is that a tarantula?" My husband said, "Well, it's either a tarantula or two black kittens standing back to back." And indeed it was a tarantula. Our first experience with these Texas spiders and certainly not our last.
We also found out that cental Texas has scorpians. Now I don't really mind the tarantulas, but I don't like the scorpians at all because they come into your home and sting you . That's when I called the exterminator. I've never been stung by a scorpian but I've heard stories about my friends getting stung. The scary part of their stories are that they all start out with, "Well I was lying in bed..."
And last, but not least, there is the fire ant. That tiny little creature who's sting hurts like ... well ... fire! All of my children have experienced a fire ant attack when they were two or three years old. I had to strip them down to their birthday suit to get all the ants off them.
But amongst all the tarantulas, scorpians and fire ants are the monarch butterflies. These beautiful, delicate creatures are migrating as I write this blog. They are all traveling to Mexico for the warmer temperatures. They have never traveled this route before because they have recently been born and they are doing this on pure instinct. So if you see a monarch butterfly pass by, you know it's headed for those sandy beaches, clear blue waters and drinks with umbreallas in them.
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