all the right moves

Ok, so I think the spiders are gone. At least, most of them. Probably some escaped, and we'll see them later on, building webs and catching the insects that will undoubtedly make their way into the apartment when it gets warm enough outside to open the windows (since we don't have air conditioning.) Hopefully the pidgeons that hang out outside the windows won't also decide to try and come in to the apartment.

Kinda creepy, no? There's a real brave one that sometimes sits on the window ledge in our bedroom. Nate took some pictures of him through the window one afternoon and he just...sat there.

Also, I finally attached the little metal ring to my phone case so I could use the Macro/WideAngle lens. So here's the scoop:

The lens itself. The little string is attached to a metal circle that holds the lenses so you can carry them around. It also comes with a cover, so the lens doesn't get scratched. The macro part is just the back half-inch or so, and then the WideAngle part is the front that opens outward, which you can screw onto the macro part. It's nifty!

Dino toy taken with Macro lens. They sent it to us with the order. Yay! I think Nate might have named him already, but I'm gonna call him Gerard. Here's a pic of Gerard with the regular camera, so you can see -- he is quite small.

(our TV is maybe a 30")

And here is a picture of the panoramic photo of Boston Nate's parents got him for Christmas. First without the wide-angle lens. I'm back up against the fridge for this one -- pretty much as far away from the pic as you can get in our little hallway area and still be facing it straight on. It's probably about 3' in length.

Notice how you can't see the whole picture? Here's the photo with the wide-angle lens. (For anyone who cares, I keep wanting to put an 'e' on the end of lens. Ugh.)

You can just barely see the whole thing. I'd say at this range (which is pretty small, about 3 to 4 feet away from the wall) the wide-angle lens added about half a foot in either direction. I'm excited to see what it can do about larger, outdoor pictures. (As mentioned in the previous post about this item, you can also see the little black corner in the bottom left. Nothing Photoshop can't handle.)

Nate is at work, and I told myself I would clean, but besides putting away and throwing away some paper work on the breakfast, I haven't really done much. I think I'll eat the last piece of pizza and contemplate cleaning some more.

-C

eeeeeeeek!

Nate, as he's leaving for work, goes., "What's that?"

Me: "What's what?"

Nate: "That. (points to our bookshelf) It's...like an infestation of little bugs."

Me: "Ewww! (looks closer) Actually...they're baby spiders."

Bugs, I can deal with. Baby spiders....not so much. Even though they're probably much too small to hurt anything just yet. But they must have JUST hatched because they were tumbling in vast droves down from the second shelf towards the floor. We're lucky Nate saw them, because if he had just left, I probably wouldn't have noticed them and they would have just spread out all over the apartment and gotten big...and then we'd have a problem. As it is, the offending bookshelf got a good cleaning:

But now I just feel all creepy crawly. And we got our desk from the same place, so hopefully there isn't a time bomb sac of baby spiders waiting to explode hatch in there, too. Ew ew ew. 

Ew.

-C