It has been a couple days for some

And yesterday for the big pots and things seem pretty much alive. My hanging baskets are still hanging from the branches of the avocado tree but I don't want to be a pest so I will wait to ask again. And if they stay in the tree it isn't so bad. I know the one pot has some dried stuff but they are just sticks and looked that way when the yarn lady gave them to me. I know the one big pot looks like it doesn't have much in it but that is where the Oregon Wildflowers are planted.

Now, for my first scary yucky experience. Don't tell Kaye or Dianne or they won't come to visit. I was sitting in the living room last night and the biggest spider I have ever seen came walking across the floor. I think maybe it was even strutting. There was no way I was going to get close enough to step on it for fear it attacked me. So I managed to open the door because it seemed to be too big to crawl under it and I used the lid of my craft box to shoo it out. I then proceeded to spray all the floors, especially near the doors with disinfectant with insect repellent. I considered sleeping with all the lights on but my only concession was to have the spray bottle handy. This hummer was big, but I survived. I am really surprised this is the first one I have seen. A couple little ones but nothing like this. Apparently I better just get over it. I told Gerardo about it when he came to look at my flowers and he went and told one of his sisters and they laughed. I have been told that only horses die from spider bites and that they just pee on your skin and it stings but I was being told a bunch of baloney so that may not be true either. I do need to be more careful about checking my shoes before I put them on and shaking my clothes out before putting them on. All in all just a typical day in Costa Rica.

On a really good note I am feeling pretty good. I used one of the patches last night that the lady upstairs gave me and now it is 12 hours off and I will use the other one in a different spot tonight. And, it is warm and the sun is shining, the sky is blue. One of the beautiful days in Paradise.