Eek! And a Spider Friend for Measure

 

Eek! has made his way to my house and is among my favorite Halloween Classic/Freedom Series models. Here he is posing on the classy grill:

  

Interestingly, my Eek! has both a green and purple sheen to him, as can sort of be seen below on his right foreleg:

It was hard to photograph, but the two colors are there. The purple dominates over the green (Gregor Mendel joke, lolololol!) on my model. I assume that all Eeks! have this, but I have only seen two in-hand photos as I am not on FB. In one photo Eek! had a greenish cast, while the other Eek! had a purple one. It probably depends on how the light hits his coat. Here are some more Eek! photos:

Now, if you don’t like spiders, run run ruuuuun!!! away now as there are spider pictures coming up. 

Keeeeeep ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuning!!! Spiders are on the horizon!

Gooooooooooooo noooooooowwwwww! Last chance!!!!!!!!

Our friend Measure is back to help put things in scale. I think Measure last appeared in April to help us get an idea of the size of some hailstones from storms that had passed through. This year we seem to have an abundance of banana spiders/golden orb weavers/zigzag spiders or whatever name people choose to call them by. When I lived in Florida, we had the biggest banana spider I have ever seen living in the carport. No joke, her legs easily spanned a dinner plate. I have a picture of her somewhere. On the farm, we had a ton of these spiders set up shop, placing their webs between the rows of sorghum. Good thing too, as they kept the grasshopper population in check (many grasshoppers were the size of my index finger). This particular spider has been hanging out on our backyard fence:

Notice Measure’s expression while looking at the spider’s size:

Although it’s not yet October, it’s never too early for Halloween!