Well, I got it done. This annoyance that must occur twice a year—I got my studs on. Now, doesn’t that sound dramatic? I bet if I had not said “annoyance”, you would think I went out on the town, right?
Nope. I engaged in the semi-annual studded tire dance. And not too soon! We got dumped on today by the white stuff.
Back to the studs: usually, my dance is one of huffing and puffing and shoving and hefting those heavy things into the back of my car. Of course, I have to make sure there is a blanket or some protection for the car to keep it somewhat clean. And then, I try to keep the tattered plastic bags together (why don’t they give me new bags to store those tires in?) as the wheel-less orbs (you can’t use the same word too often in a paragraph!!) fly through the air and pound as they land in the back of my car. Finally, I can go stand in line to sign up my vehicle for service and sit for 2 or 3 hours while the service happens.
However, this time it was different. I have never had a surfeit of spiders in my garage before. This year, I don’t know whether the bug spray just didn’t work, or it didn’t happen soon enough, but the spiders had built a tenement all around my stored studded tires. The last thing I wanted to do was touch the tires! But it’s snow season and I live on a hill and I watch cars go down sideways! That is NOT going to happen to ME!
So, I grabbed my gardening gloves, and shrieking, started pulling tires one at a time out of the nest. We went outside and each tire, with its unique plastic cover, got a good drubbing in the wet grass. Did I mention it was dark outside? Four times I did this, but the tires got loaded and I had visions dancing in my head of driving to Montana with lots of company scampering across my dashboard.
AUGHHHHHH!
I have cleared out the garage – with a long handled broom, also drubbed in the grass.
Spiders—I DARE YOU!!
“The spider skillfully grasps with its hands, and it is in king’s palaces,” Proverbs 30:28.
(But not in this King’s Daughter’s garage any longer!!)
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