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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jmcquown Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Pineapple cheese refrigerator pie recipe Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:43:28 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:43:42 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c158fd36e2135a6958488544d0d235b1"; logging-data="4152563"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/j74f07+oCVtCLNvLm6JocFiVltB8JFZQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:iD42lxpMasncW+4Ns8cR56Noeis= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3608 On 11/2/2024 1:16 PM, Dave Smith wrote: > On 2024-11-02 10:06 a.m., jmcquown wrote: >> On 11/2/2024 9:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote: >>> On 2024-11-02 9:17 a.m., jmcquown wrote: >> >>> One night he was headed home from an afternoon shift and popped in >>> the ER where we was treated by a doctor who had interned in an area >>> where brown recluse spiders live. He had surgery for it the next day. >>> They had to scoop out the flesh and then pull his wound closed. The >>> massive scar tissue required massage for months. It's all healed up >>> now but he has a very large and very ugly scar there now. >>> >>> >> As your son found out, a bite from a spider is not something to be >> ignored.  I don't let spiders hang out in my house.  There are a few >> little harmless garden spiders that find their way in; I pick them up >> and toss them outside.  But sorry (songbird) I'll spray pesticides all >> over the exterior to keep them from coming inside my house. > > Spider bites are the sort of thing we worry about here. Most spiders are > harmless and those that do bite are so mild they are little more than a > distraction. That's why my son didn't worry about it at the time. By the > time he got him it was like a small blister. He popped it and cleaned it > out but it just kept getting wider and deeper. By the time he went to > the hospital it was about the diameter of a quarter and about 1/8th inch > deep. Apparently those things have a necrotizing venom that eats away at > the flesh on top and just keeps working its way down. > > One advantage to having (non venomous) spiders in the house is that they > trap and eat annoying insects like flies, mosquitoes and moths. > > I wish they were big enough to deal with the more invasive stink bugs > that have been thriving here for the past few years. > I don't recall if I posted the pic of the banana spider I had in the bushes out front a few months ago. I didn't keep the photo. They are non-venomous but if you try to grab one they will bite. They get pretty big: https://hgic.clemson.edu/banana-spiders/ Don't want one inside the house! Jill