[karibear]

Originally Posted by _redbird_

LOL! You crack me up with those stepping on things stories! ~squish!

I've spent a lot of my life barefooted - until I left MO the first time, I just didn't wear shoes in the summer, except in church or going out for a more 'formal' affair, like eating out either at a restaurant or at some relatives' houses. That was nearly 20 years' worth of beig barefooted at least 7 months/year - and I still don't wear shoes in the house, other than slippers in the winter. Bare feets are happy feets.

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by Raelyn28

YOU GUYS ARE SCARING ME!! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO WANT TO MOVE THERE WITH ALL THESE BUGS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?

bwaaahahahaha!

[Raelyn28]

Now that is just downright mean!! I truly am NOT a huge fan of bugs and we don't have many here in Washington State...

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by Raelyn28

Now that is just downright mean!! I truly am NOT a huge fan of bugs and we don't have many here in Washington State...

Raelyn,

I wouldn't let the many bugs (yes, many) detract you from moving here. It's just a way of life here in the South-Central. You'll get used to it.

If you keep a clean house as well as the surrounding area around your house you won't have any problem with 'em. Well, you might have a little problem....but I promise the spiders are not THAT big ....as much as Redbird would like to scare you.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Raelyn28

Now that is just downright mean!! I truly am NOT a huge fan of bugs and we don't have many here in Washington State...

East or west of the Cascades? The west side is where I first encountered hobo spiders and sugar ants. Those ants were so pervasive we had to prectically seal everything hermetically to keep them out - and they still managed to find a way into the fridge [the North Sound for both]. There are plenty of bugs there. WA is also where I first ran into those gruesome huge slugs [in Seattle], houses so infested with fleas we had to break down the bed and spray the mattresses just to get a couple hours' sleep [the Peninsula], and roaches so bad I had to spray the apartment twice a day [Seattle again]. There may be more varieties of bugs in OK, but at least they mostly stay outside.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Bass&Catfish2008

Raelyn,

I wouldn't let the many bugs (yes, many) detract you from moving here. It's just a way of life here in the South-Central. You'll get used to it.

If you keep a clean house as well as the surrounding area around your house you won't have any problem with 'em. Well, you might have a little problem....

....as much as Redbird would like to scare you.

A bug doesn't have to be big to be deadly

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by Raelyn28

Now that is just downright mean!! I truly am NOT a huge fan of bugs and we don't have many here in Washington State...

Wow. Do you have arachnophobia! If you do move to Oklahoma, you need to be informed, even if you plan to live in town or in the city.

We also have chiggers, 3 kinds of rattlesnakes, black rat snakes, and mosquitoes, not to mention bats and possums, coons, armadillos, and skunks are regular visitors during the night here. We have apple trees and the critters love apples. Especially the deer.

But if you have arachnophobia, ~any~ spider will cause you to freak out. Do you have anxiety about spiders and snakes, etc? Because if you do, you are in for a few surprises.

Personally, I never kill spiders (or even scorpions) because spiders are considered good luck to my people. And my favorite spider is the Wolf Spider. They get huge.

<<cue the shrieking violins>>


When we had company from out-of-state, one ran across the foot of one our house guests, and she absolutely flipped! She screamed very very loudly and ran out of the bathroom... after she killed it. Poor Morpheus. He was such a cool spider. He even "barked" hello to me when I visited the bathroom at night.

Luckily she didn't see Morpheus until her last day here, because she said she could not sleep in our house knowing that "thing" was in the bathroom.

[Goodpasture]

Schousse claimed once that she saw a tarantula in the bathroom.....just a silly old wolf spider.......

[_redbird_]

I wonder what Raelyn28 will do if we tell her that tarantulas come out in the 1000's every so often.

Once we were driving in western Oklahoma, and we saw thousands of tarantulas walking on the road. All we heard was crunch, crunch, crunch as the car went down the road.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by _redbird_

I wonder what Raelyn28 will do if we tell her that tarantulas come out in the 1000's every so often.

Once we were driving in western Oklahoma, and we saw thousands of tarantulas walking on the road. All we heard was crunch, crunch, crunch as the car went down the road.

You should have gotten out and moved them.