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Tom Perkes is Senske's corporate and marketing communications manager. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in business and Spanish while playing NCAA-level basketball at Albertson's College in Caldwell, Idaho and recevied his MBA from the University of Worcester in England.  Tom has worked in the green industry since 1998. He is married with two small children.
 
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Hobo spiders are particularly active this year
August 27, 2010  rss feed

It's not what you think it is; its mold!

It's not what you think it is; its mold!
It's not what you think it is; its mold!

Don't let your little ones get bit,
it's too easy to prevent
Recently there has been a crazy amount of phone calls into our call center in regards to spiders, specifically about the hobo spider. The hobo spider was able to survive our mostly mild winter that we had here. The winter never got extremely cold. It stayed until July first, but it never was super cold. Because of this many of the spiders didn't die off. They were able to stick around for an extra season. What this means for you as the homeowner?

It's not what you think it is; its mold!

It's not what you think it is; its mold!
You're going to have a very large number of spiders at your home, work, garage, etc. For your home and family, you need to take special care not to let the spiders have too much free reign. Spider bites, although not usually fatal, can leave disgusting scars and be very painful. A necrotic spider bite will kill the skin and tissue in the direct vicinity of where the bite occurred, like in the attached picture.

If you really want to be grossed out google "Necrotic Spider Bite"

To keep your family and home safe, all you need to do is call 800-326-2071 or click on this link. You'll be able to fill out your info and get a pest service done at your home. It's imperative that you get it soon as the populations are getting out of control. On Tuesday August 24th, KXLY news in Spokane did a piece on Hobo spiders. See I'm not making this stuff up, they really are everywhere this year.



On To The Fun Stuff

I love playing tricks on my kids, and this is totally something I would do.



I'm not afraid of very many things. But alligators are one of them. I even went to the Okefenokee Swamp, and saw a whole bunch of them. They're huge, have lots of teeth, and they attack silently from the water. So when I see this video, it totally tames them for me.



Bulls Gone Wild! This happened in Spain the 18th of August. What do they think will happen? Some dud is trying to stab the bull, wouldn't you run out of the ring. My favorite part is when a guy is holding the bulls tail thinking that will slow it down!



And with the baseball season winding down, and the final push for the pennant coming up. I found this awesome video of the 1988 Kirk Gibson Game 1 winner. Any time you can combine Vin Scully and RBI Baseball you have a winner!



GOTW
It's time to get our Survival Football Pool up and running again, last year's winner was myself, and I went 17 weeks without picking a loser! So the streak continues. To get signed up you need to go to follow this link, and enter this info League ID# 14304 and the password is "football"
 
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