Chocolate, carrots and mother spiders

Will Write For Chocolate has been updated. Actually, it was updated last week but I forgot to post about it. It's been an unusually busy summer (hence the dearth of Blatherings).

Also forgot to post about my first vegetable harvest of the year! I've mentioned before that I planted some tomatoes and baby carrots in addition to herbs in my patio planters. The squirrels dug up most of my carrot seeds, but here's one that survived:



There was a big squirrel hole right beside it. Note the nibbled-off leaves on two of the stalks.

I ate it, of course. And it was the BEST CARROT I'VE EVER TASTED.



Above: spider with egg sac at the cottage. I felt sorry for the poor mother spider, lugging along this huge (in comparison to her own body) egg sac, trying to find a safe place to put it. Couldn't help but think of Charlotte's Web.

Am I correct in assuming this is a dock spider? Anyway, I ended up taking her to a hollowed-out log at the edge of the forest.



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