Spider Sitting

Here's another incident from the, "It could only happen in West Texas" series:

This week I was asked to "tarantula-sit". Yes, it's true. One of my youth orchestra members had captured several of the critters, placed them in an ice cream bucket (thankfully sealed with duct tape by her father) and brought the spider to rehearsal for a show and tell. Yikes. Wisely, the youth orchestra coach would not allow the spiders in the rehearsal room because they would be too much of a distraction. That left me with the unusual task of tending the spiders. Oh my.