Circus insects

Insects and I do not dwell together harmoniously. I seem to be the only person in the world who gets ants in their hummingbird feeder. I have pondered this issue. They have to first leap across from the post to the feeder, which is hanging on a rope. Then they have to s-q-u-e-e-z-e through the teensy hole that the birds use to access the nectar. And then they have to crawl up a minute little tube to reach the nectar, where they drown and end up floating. These are not the tiny grease ants. These are the half inch long black ones. So, they must train at a camp for circus ants. They are taught to do acrobatics, and how to be contortionists.

But that being said, I apparently have attracted some circus spiders as well. I was washing my face in the bathroom one night when suddenly, (Drum roll here), a spider came sailing out of the air on a thread. I would have said he was rappelling but I think you do that against a wall. He dipped and wove around, all the while performing hair raising stunts, and then, as quickly as he appeared, he rose back into the air and crawled away on the ceiling. I was stunned. What's next? Clown grasshoppers?