Return of the Joro

Mom and I have been engaging in a battle around the house, day after day, and we didn't really want to start this war either.  But these Joro spiders are everywhere, and they grow to be these large gooey spiders that build fairly huge webs with strong anchors.  We used to have a few orb spiders around each year, and they'd sit there with these massive webs dangling right there at the middle of the forest.  You gave them space.  These are the same types of spiders that you give space, but the problem is... they're everywhere.  I'm not exaggerating:  we've killed over a hundred around our house.  I didn't want to do that, as I generally like to leave spiders alone, unless they're black widows, which are dangerous.  But these are so plentiful, and they grow, and they leave large industrious webs everywhere.  We've decided to ban this import, and so Mom and I are in this daily struggle to remove all the natural creepy Halloween decorations, but it's amazing how invasive these spiders are.

Anyway, today was Team Edge for Maddie, and she enjoyed that, working on her flips and choreography.  They're going to start meeting every Saturday now, all of this leading up to a performance in December.  She's having a great time with it.  I'm still in the car though, isolating myself until I get a little better.  Mom and I are still super under the weather, affected by this relentless illness.  Another unwanted import from China, just like the spiders.  Anyway, while she's in there, I'm in the car reading this George Washington biography which is pretty interesting.  I think I've read a lot about all the other Founding Fathers, particularly Jefferson and Adams, but after watching "Hamilton" recently, I was wanting to read about George Washington some more.  A lot I've already known, of course, particularly the troublesome situation at New York and the miracle we actually had a standing army still after that.  One thing I didn't think about so much is how much we owe the French during that season.  Of course, they were after their best interests, and there was a bit of getting back at Great Britain, but still, the siege at Yorktown certainly would look a lot different without the French army there.  Anyway, I know we came in and saved them during World War II, but I come from an era where we generally don't view the French as highly as other nations.  Which is ironic. 

Anyway, Maddie was reading "Mysterious Benedict Society," racing to get that one done before the library needed it back, and tonight we read more from Kingdom Keepers.  So a lot of reading today.  And a lot of dinosaurs!  We finished up the rest of the Jurassic World movies, watching the last two movies and even "The Battle of Big Rock," which is great stuff, by the way.  We're ready for our "Lost World" series - but just not tomorrow.  It'll feel weird not being there at KidPak again, and it's awful that we've waited so long for this series, only to not be there for it.  But such is the way of things, and in all things, it could be worse.  

We said our prayers tonight, and soon after that, we were off to sleep again.  We'll be sleeping in tomorrow, although we'll be watching KidPak online.  Maddie will go to FC Youth tomorrow, but that's about it on the day.  We just need to keep resting and getting better.