Me mounting my first spider. Found it while camping in Colorado at the Medieval fair. Serena and I were scared. 

I do a lot of taxidermy. But this is my first specimen with an exoskeleton. 

The spider was alive when we found it on our rug, it had a giant egg sac. It died in a jam jar in the trunk. the sac was squished by David.

I have never done anything this creepy, and I do some creepy stuff. I taxidermy birds and make top hats for them. But this was just…spidery. I stuffed the abdomen and soaked her in alcohol and formalin. I….I….

I need to take a moment.