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It was so much fun! I love Woods canyon Lake soo much, I'd live there if I could.
So we (My grandpa, brother and his friend) drove up two mondays ago, couldn't get a spot in the campground we wanted but found a good one in a different camp. the next day we got two spots, one for his 35 foot 5th wheel camper and another for my om's small 20 foot camper.
I stayed there the whole time, but everyone else was gone at some point in the trip.
My grandpa went down for some work thing, my brother's friend had to go to work, my mom had something to do, my siser had work, my brother had to pack for some boyscout thing and my little sister didn't come up untill a few days after we first got there.
but anyway, I got bitten by something. I am not sure what ti was, but it doesn't bother me one bit. If the bite turns out to be some kind of terrible thing, like a Brown Recluse bite, then I'll be worried. (I know it's not though.)
So, on the last day, (night) there was an intense thunder storm that lasted about an hour and a half, maybe more. It dumped so much rain on my grandpa's already drenched camping site, turning the driveway into a river. It was a lot of fun, and my brother and I turned off the lights and watched the lightning from my grandpa's RV's big back window. (Just my mom, and my two brotehrs were up with me at that time)
I love those big storms with the Ccracking thunder and bright flashes lighting up the whole forest.


But speaking of Brown Recluse spiders, I remember way back a few years when I was pretty little we had a pet spider. A wild pet spider, not a pet store spider.
So one night, my mom opened the front door to either go somethere or do something outside (at the old house) and suddenly this big ghostly white-brown spider decended from the top doorframe and landed on the step right in fron of her. She just looked at it, then caught it in a jar. We'd never seen a spider like that one before, so we went online (on dial up...) and found a spider site.
We investigated into the spideryness of the site and found the picture page, then spotted a photo of our little (He was accually a really big spider) spider pal on the web page.
The caption said it was a Brown Recluse, and at first that was a bit hard to believe. Could a spider that dangerous really be sitting in a jar right in front of us? Yep. atfer a bit more reaserch, we found out that it really was a Brown Recluse, but that didn't stop us from keeping it.
We named it Cluse and kept it in a jar in the kitchen. we would catch flies, put them in a second jar, then place a piece of paper over the fly jar and tip it onto the spider jar. Next we'd slide out the paper and let the fly go into the spider jar, then we would put the ice-pick-stabbed lid back on the spider jar.
Cluse lasted quite a while, but I am unside of how long we really had him. But he got old, and one of his fnags fell off one day, then I guess he died soon after. We uncerimously threy him away, but we all still remember the potentially dangerous spider that had been living in our kitchen for quite some time.
He was a neat spider too.

Tags: bite, brown recluse, camping, spider, woods canyon lake