Last week I noticed a large glob of blue foam in the bathtub. I thought, "Oh, my goodness, what is that?" I had just cleaned the tub (finally) and decided that some mystery cleaning substance had leaked out of a bottle and had decided to live on the bottom of the bathtub. Because I usually do not wear my glasses in the bathroom, I was not sure of the foam and just left it, ignored it, and forgot about it.

Saturday morning, grandpa asked me if I had seen the shaving cream (ah ha!) in the bathtub. I told him I had been wondering about it for a couple of days. He said he found a spider, a big, long-legged one in the tub. The kind of spider that you can't wash down the drain because it holds onto the sides of the pipes and crawls back up to freedom as soon as you turn off the water. Have you seen that kind? Since we had four new cans of shaving cream, courtesy of a trip to Costco, Grandpa creatively covered the spider with the blue foam, about four inches high of it, and let the spider slowly die. We happily washed the spider down the drain. He did not crawl back up, even when the sun came up in the morning.

Good bye spider. I'm glad I do not have to share the bathroom with you. And Jacob, shaving cream works great for killing spiders. Have fun.

Love,
Grandma