Sometimes it is hard to be a Texan. When we lived in the Midwest we might have seen a cockroach once every few years. Here we see them ALL THE TIME and they are so big they should probably be paying rent. Luckily we haven't seen too many snakes, but we have heard stories--of them living in garages, finding their way to bathrooms. If we found a snake in our bathroom we would probably die on the spot. We are fragile like that. Spiders don't usually trouble us. We might wake up with bites, but at least their skittering across our knees and arms doesn't wake us up the way a GIGANTIC COCKROACH probably would. Of course, sometimes the size of the spiders we see around here is a little alarming. Sometimes we want to make our way to Alaska and set up in an igloo so we wouldn't have to deal with all of these bugs and rodents and reptiles. more ›