summer_jackel

My wolf spider, the Lady in Velvet, passed a couple of days ago. Although she was a rescue and of a species that probably doesn't live very long, and although I know I did a good job caring for her, I'm still sad about it. I'll miss her. She was surprisingly graceful and lovely, as well as being something of the quintessence of large, hairy spiders. It was neat to have her as a roomate. I am perhaps a little surprised that I managed to bond to a spider quite this much, although perhaps I shouldn't be given how attached I was to the tarantula I kept in high school. Maybe it was something about the way Velvet watched me.

All of my other animals are doing well, including Avi, who is growing inexorably but slowly. Her legspan might almost straddle a dime now. If she's actually female, she might live 20 years in captivity; it turns out that the really large hairy spiders take a long time to get large, in addition to being fragile.