Nasty Bugs

Have you ever seen a uglier bug? Well, yesterday evening when I was trying to get some housework done I found this ugly creature. We took the pool down a couple of days ago because the rain has started and it has cooled down. Last night I was finally fed up with all of dirt and junk on the porch. I had gotten all of the toys picked up and cleaned that area and decided to finally pick up the tarp from the pool. I was almost finished folding the tarp in half when I came face to face with this thing. It may not look big from the picture, but this thing is almost six inches long plus the length of the antenna. It is not a cockroach or a spider, but it is gross. I ran to get a ziploc bag and then trapped him and threw him in the garbage. I told Jason about it when he got home and he dug the ziplock out of the trash. He thought is was very cool and wanted to keep it, but I put my foot down. I have never been so scared by a bug in my life. I don't think that I have ever seen a bug that big.

Another subject on the bug topic is that we have baby cockroaches and crickets flooding our house. Last week when we had the water tank cleaned, the man who cleaned it said that we were growing cockroaches in the top of the tank because of the coolness and water. We bleached the tank and that got rid of them, but since that day I have seen these babies all over the house and porch. They are tiny and only about half an inch long. I have no problem with them as long as they grow somewhere else!!!