The Kat House

You know how I said I rarely see a spider in the house now? I must have jinxed myself. I got up yesterday morning and saw a huge spider running across the kitchen floor. Orkin has definitely helped with the problem, but they haven’t addressed the real source. I’ve been telling [...]

When I moved into this house last year, there was a serious spider infestation.  I signed a one year contract with Orkin, and now I rarely see a spider.  But as luck would have it, my contract is coming to a close - and my property has been invaded by swarms of gigantic mosquitoes!  These [...]

It’s time once again to reveal a few of the recent Google search terms that have brought readers to my blog, as well as my thoughts on each.
“Nicest perfume ever”
Loving perfume as I do, I have a fairly large collection of fragrances. I don’t like strong, overpowering scents. I tend to go for [...]

Liza of Vanilla Soup just kicked off a very cool weekly contest.  Each week, she will select a topic.  You will have one week to nominate related posts from your own blog or others’ blogs.  Each weekly winner will receive the Soup Spoon Award and will be entered into a monthly drawing for a blog [...]

During the past week, hundreds of people visited my blog by performing various Google searches pertaining to spiders. Perhaps it was due to Halloween. If not, I suspect there’s some sort of arachnid invasion going on. Here are some of the more unusual searches.
“rusty wandering spider”
Roaming from home to home in search [...]

While browsing through my Google search terms today, I realized that my blog is often accessed for advice on beauty, spiders, and men.  I consider myself to be quite knowledgeable on beauty topics, but when it comes to spiders and men, I’m not so sure anyone should turn to me for advice.
I have decided, however, [...]

Les Jones has posed an interesting question for all you bloggers out there. Just what is your ratio of blog posts to comments? Take a moment to stop by and post your information. The responses are really interesting!
Yvonne Foong is a Malaysian college student suffering from Neurofibromatosis. The disease affects the [...]

I found this spider hanging out between two shrubs in front of my house.  It’s about the size of a nickel.  Anyone know what it is?

I’m beginning to think that sweet little old lady I bought my house from wasn’t so sweet after all. Supposedly she fell in love at nearly 80 years of age and sailed off into the sunset with her knight in shining walker. Frankly, I think she left to escape the spiders. Not ordinary house spiders, [...]

I love my new house, but it came with one problem I wasn’t expecting - spiders!  Since I moved in, I’ve found several large spiders inside the house.  I was dealing with them just fine until I found a very large wolf spider in the garage a few weeks ago.  I immediately called the Orkin [...]