"The Further Adventures of Mary's Mustang"...

The banana spider is called that for the color of the web it creates!

 Good Throwback Thursday Morning, all bodies.

Pursuing further the continuing adventures of Mary's Mustang, she told me a her encounter with a spider that somehow took up temporary residence on her moody mustang. Rio, that's the mustang's apparent name, didn't seem to be bothered by the rather large insect, but it bothered the motherly Mary.

Like many, spiders, no matter what shape or size, rate high with poisonous and non poisonous snakes, so Mary decided to shoo away the nasty bug. Unfortunately, she grabbed the closest available tool to dislodge the spider off of Rio's right ear.

It was the "switch stick" Mary uses to move along her herd. Rio was not planning on staying in his stall and in mustang talk let Mary know.

"Mustangs are wild and moody animals," she told me.

"And, Rio bites!"

"You know, Ben, I'm getting too old for this kinda shit!"

Apparently, Rio looked back at her with that switch and backed up towards her out of the stall attempting to give Mary a good kick.

"It's not worth all this drama," she said. If the damn spider isn't bothering him, fine with me!"

The tension subsided when Mary dropped the stick, and backed away to to find that Rio had shook his head a few times to flip the unwanted aural intruder away.

"I'm getting too old for this," Mary reiterated.

My encounter, five years ago, with the seasonal banana spider is "documented" at: https://graphicgumbo3.blogspot.com/.../it-was-big-enough...

Second Giddy Up cup!

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