But now I have two pets in the cage. A hairy tarantula and a Brazilian cockroach. Sensitive soul that I am, I don t have the heart to kill the roach and, besides, it hisses like a snake whenever I try to touch it. The two actually seem to get along with each other pretty well. Not that they spend their evenings together playing pinochle, but they have formed a rather unique relationship.
Foul weather makes for fair friends.
That s what someone once said. But I am quite sure he was not considering what our recent wintry mix blew into this writer s life.