Lifestyle Messenger-Inquirer SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 News Editor: 270-691-7317 C4 Spiders catch our attention hile gardening or cleaning around the Whome, garage and outbuildings, we see spiders. Kentucky has many common spiders. There are two you should learn to identify because their venom is harmful to humans. ANNETTE Remember, MEYER however, all HEISDORFFER spiders can be HORTICULTURE dangerous if a person is allergic or sensitive to spiders and insects. Dr. Lee Townsend and Dr. Mike Potter, University of Kentucky Extension entomologists, describe several common spiders: Kacy Paide | The Washington Post Spiders feed mostly on small Clearly labeled containers make organizing your pantry easy, organizer Kacy Paide says. insects and other arthropods. Some trap their prey in webs or snares. Others are active hunters and use excellent vision CREATING ORDER IN YOUR to ambush their food. Virtually all spiders have poison glands that connect with their fangs. Venom produced by the glands is used in defense and to kill or paralyze prey. PANTRY Only a few species, such as the black widow and brown recluse, have venom that is very toxic such as sweet potatoes, onions to humans. Most species do not Make your cooking life easier through organization or garlic, can be stored in the attempt to bite. Many have fangs pantry, though storing potatoes that are not capable of piercing BY HELEN CAREFOOT donation and compost options; organization served 500,000 and onions next to one another THE WASHINGTON POST the skin. However, some bites when Kacy Paide, founder households last month — could cause potatoes to will result in a reaction similar to ith autumn and of the Inspired Office firm in double the number it usually develop sprouts more quickly. a wasp or bee sting. It is possible colder weather Silver Spring, Md., reorganized serves — including many a person can have an allergic Waround the corner her own pantry, she learned people who sought food USE REUSABLE reaction to the venom. and no end in sight to the that her neighbors had assistance for the first time. CONTAINERS Matching containers look Most spiders found in homes coronavirus pandemic, many helped establish a community Efficient organizing helps and buildings are accidental volunteers and staff get food great for Instagram and people may be cooking at composting initiative in her invaders that have entered where it needs to go, she said, Pinterest, but Katrina Green, home more often during the condominium complex. Local around doors, windows, or other and a backbone of that system founder of Badass Homelife in months ahead. But it’s hard grocery stores and farmers openings. is putting items with later Sacramento, wants to relieve to get inspired when your markets often have composting The brown recluse, sell-by dates at the back of would-be organizers of the pantry is a jumble of half-full stations, too. Loxosceles reclusa, is the only the shelf and refrigerator and pressure of uniformity. Buying boxes of pasta, expired The problem of excess food member of the brown spider placing older items closer to matching containers can be canned goods and spices that is a privilege, particularly now, family (Loxoscelidae) living in are long past their prime. as the coronavirus pandemic the front. (These dates don’t expensive and can detract from Kentucky. Coloration ranges How can you know what to has ravaged the economy and indicate when items spoil, but the objective of the project, from tan to dark brown, with cook when you don’t know caused record unemployment. rather when they are at peak which should be to structure uniformly colored abdomen and what you have, or if it’s even Feeding America estimates freshness, Murthy added.) the pantry so it’s one less thing legs. The legs are long, thin usable? that more than 54 million GROUP ‘LIKE to worry about. “It’s about and lack conspicuous spines. Having an organized and people, including 18 million WITH LIKE’ creating a system that makes uncluttered pantry will make children, may experience A distinguishing feature is the Creating separate zones your life easier,” she said. dark, violin-shaped mark on trying ambitious baking food insecurity in 2020. Buying containers and then projects or cooking up some Organizers suggested donating in the pantry to store similar its back, with the violin’s neck items together makes it having to take time to take food pointing toward the spider’s comforting soups and stews unwanted — but fresh and out of packaging and sort it less stressful. We spoke with edible — canned and dry easy to glance at a shelf and rear or abdomen. This feature immediately find what you’re into containers could have the is consistent in adult brown professional organizers and goods to local food pantries opposite effect. and organizations. Don’t try to looking for. Paide suggests recluses, but sometimes less a food bank employee for Using containers you tips on how to quickly — and donate expired food or items categorizing items by use; for obvious in younger spiders. already have around the inexpensively — get your with dented, compromised example, keep baking supplies Although brown recluse bites house or repurposing items, pantry in order. Here are their packaging. “I’ve seen clients together, and group pastas and are rare, the venom can cause such as cardboard boxes suggestions. insist on giving canned food canned goods each in their serious wounds, such as tissue own area. from the mail, is a free and destruction that may require SORT, TOSS that’s way expired,” Paide said. “You don’t want to burden a If you’re storing more sustainable way to create surgery. AND DONATE food pantry with the work of than sealed containers in the storage within your pantry, The brown recluse makes a Before attempting to filtering through what’s good pantry, research how the foods Green and Paide said. Look for web that appears messy and organize your food, go through and bad.” interact. Storing some fruits spare boxes, and cover them dense, usually close to the everything in the pantry and and vegetables together may in decorative scrapbook or ground or floor in dark secluded toss out expired products, said FILL SHELVES cause them to ripen or go bad wrapping paper to make them areas. They are common Vernestine Laughinghouse, BACK TO FRONT more quickly. Murthy doesn’t look nicer, Green suggests. indoors and can live year-round founder of Absoulute Enormous quantities of food recommend storing fresh fruits Laughinghouse and Paide also in homes, barns, sheds, Organizing Solutions in move through the storage and vegetables in the pantry, suggest washing old jars — warehouses and greenhouses, Washington, D.C. After that, facilities at Second Harvest because they could rot if you ideally clear glass ones — and as well as protected outdoor think about what foods and Food Bank, which serves forget about them; store them reusing them to store dry areas. Brown recluses tend to supplies you’ll really eat and Santa Clara County in the San in the refrigerator, and keep bulk goods. Or you can find hide during the day and hunt for use. Keep those things and Francisco Bay area. Maya a small amount, if you’ll eat containers in every shape, insects at night. donate or compost the rest, she Murthy, Second Harvest’s them, out on a counter in a Black widow spiders belong said. Research your local food nutrition director, said the bowl. More hardy vegetables, SEE PANTRY/PAGE C6 to the cobweb spider family (Theridiidae) and spin loosely organized trap webs. The female is about one-half inch long, is shiny black, and usually has Can small inns retain cozy vibe amid virus restrictions? a red hourglass mark on the underside of her abdomen. BY ELIZABETH HEATH tions to big, impersonal hotels. The webs are found mostly THE WASHINGTON POST But sanitation and social dis- under objects, such as rocks A stack of muffins on a tiered tancing guidelines amid the and ground trash, or under an serving tray. A living room coronavirus pandemic have overhanging embankment. They with pillow-strewn couches innkeepers and guests alike are less common in homes than rethinking “warm and cozy.” that invite you to curl up with the brown recluse. When found a good book. A common din- From how breakfast is served in homes, they are usually under ing table where strangers to in-room accoutrements to chat over breakfast. Attentive how guests and hosts mingle, appliances or heavy furniture host-owners eager to suggest smaller properties are facing a and not out in the open like an itinerary, bring up extra fire- cultural revolution of sorts, and other cobweb spiders. wood or linger in conversation. things will look a little different Black widow spiders are timid, What small inns and bed- when the dust finally settles. however, and will only bite in and-breakfasts lack in big Across the hospitality indus- response to injury. Black widow amenities, they make up for try, the pandemic has forced venom is a nerve toxin with with personalized service and changes in virtually every Morehead Manor Bed & Breakfast rapid effects. Victims should homey ambiance. That’s why aspect of customer service and Morehead Manor Bed & Breakfast, a five-room, 1900s colonial-reviv- seek medical attention promptly. many travelers prefer these al inn in Durham, N.C., is among the small properties adapting to small, owner-run accommoda- SEE VIBE/PAGE C6 coronavirus restrictions. SEE SPIDERS/PAGE C6 Announcements

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that stack or can fit into odd nooks as a free-standing wire shelf, expands 50TH ANNIVERSARY: PANTRY and crannies. Paide, who has a small cabinet space vertically and makes pantry, says she uses little rectangular it easier to stack items. Installing a FROM PAGE C4 plastic containers from OXO because pullout drawer or shelf on a rolling she “can’t afford to have a really big jar track is an easy way to make items material and price range at big-box that’s one-quarter full.” more accessible; this works especially stores and online. Other items are better left in their well in deep cabinets, Lee and Taylor Create simple labels with paper, original packaging, such as canned, said. Or add large tubs that pull tape or stickers to identify what’s pouched or tinned food, or items with forward. inside; they don’t have to be fancy preparation instructions printed on the Every organizer warned against or professional-looking. “It’s nice package, Laughinghouse said. Neatly creating new spaces to store pantry when your pantry looks almost like a stack them or place them in containers items, unless there is an immediate kindergarten classroom, because then with the labels turned outward. and specific need. Even if you have a you can very quickly and easily move storage unit, garage or spare room, CREATE IN-CABINET loading those spaces up with extras through your kitchen without as much SOLUTIONS guesswork,” Paide said. She adds won’t ease clutter and could risk If you don’t want many individual creating it, Green said. that you could even write the date jars or containers piled up, “You want to make sure space is you opened or bought the item on the Laughinghouse suggests getting used smartly, because people expand label to easily keep track of freshness. some larger baskets or boxes and to fill the space they have,” Paide In some cases, removing products putting separate categories of items added. Keeping to the available space from their original packaging may in each one to corral them. To tame will help you avoid overbuying and help save space. Some older buildings small items that can easily get lost, waste. or spaces with smaller kitchens may such as spices or cooking oils, Ultimately, how much space is not have perfectly square cabinets, Laughinghouse, Lee and Taylor all necessary to store pantry supplies said Patricia Lee and Jeanne Taylor, recommended using a rotating Lazy depends on the household; what’s co-founders of Tailorly Home, an Susan inside a cabinet; get a single needed for one adult looks different organizing firm based in the San or double version depending on your from the needs of a larger family, Francisco Bay area. Find containers needs. Adding extra shelving, such Laughinghouse said.

stripped the rooms of all character to keep people way you need to clean.” VIBE that stuff,” says Turner. safe says a lot about the In the future, she says, “If it’s not easy to clean, industry.” “I think frilly Victorian FROM PAGE C4 it’s gone.” Monica Edwards, who inns will be few and far Gone, too, are stacks with her husband, Daniel, between.” Ken and Gale McClure property amenities, from of magazines and bro- runs Morehead Manor At their five-room, instituting contactless chures in living rooms. Bed & Breakfast in 1900s colonial-revival inn, Ken and Gale McClure BellSouth, where he check-in to making fewer Turner recalls a Hudson Durham, N.C., says she the Edwardses let rooms celebrated their 50th worked as a lineman for rooms available. These Valley innkeeper who thinks many of the coro- sit empty for 24 hours wedding anniversary 35 years. Gale is a retired practices have trickled spent two days sanitiz- navirus-wrought chang- before they go in and this summer. They were educator with Owensboro down to inns and B&Bs, ing board games in her es may be permanent. clean. They strip, wash married July 7, 1970, at Public Schools, where she where they present addi- parlor — including wip- “One of things it’s doing and switch out all textiles, Greenbrier Baptist Church served in multiple roles for tional challenges related ing down every playing is making us realize what then fog the rooms. The by the Rev. Harold Nall. 21 years. to already low room inven- card, backgammon stone was necessary versus result is a two-day lag Ann Richardson, the They have three children, tory and small staff — it’s and chess piece. Guests what wasn’t necessary,” between guests, which the bride’s sister, and the late Chris (Talia) of Owensboro, a lot more viable for Hil- are encouraged to take a she says. “With a lot of couple feels is necessary, Donald Priar were their Kelly (Forrest) of Seattle ton to develop a touchless game to their room to play tchotchkes and doilies, even if it results in lower attendants. and Tyler of Philpot. They check-in app and close off and leave it there when you can’t really clean the revenue. Ken was stationed at have two grandchildren, half the rooms in a thou- they check out — so the Fort Carson in Colorado Gage and Mallory McClure sand-room hotel than it is host can clean the piec- Springs, Colorado, when of Owensboro. for, say, a four-room B&B es again before putting it they married. Upon Ken and Gale had where the owners, usual- back out. marrying, they made their planned to celebrate ly a couple, are the only For many inns and home in Colorado Springs with family and friends staff. B&Bs, the coronavirus Answer: SOLUTIONS until Ken was transferred this summer but due to Yet Heather Turner, has meant big changes OUTFOX RATHER HYMNAL HIATUS MODEST PHOBIA TO PUZZLES to Mannheim, Germany, the pandemic, that was marketing director for to the ambiance that is so where they lived until he not possible. There are When they learned that Alfred the Association of Lodg- often part of the identity Nobel invented dynamite, it was ON PAGE C5 left the military in 1972. tentative plans for a family ing Professionals, says of the lodging — picture a — Ken is retired from vacation in October. member inns are finding an old Victorian mansion BLAST FROM creative ways to meet the with guest rooms awash THE PAST corners of basements, moment. The ALP adopt- in antiques, lace and bro- SPIDERS pantries, closets, attics, ed the American Hotel cade, with canopy beds barns and sheds. and Lodging Association’s draped with diaphanous FROM PAGE C4 One of Kentucky’s Safe Stay protocols and fabrics. That’s a curated largest spiders is an orb tailored them to small look that took a long time Wolf spiders look fierce weaver (Araneidae family) accommodations with to achieve. But for now, with rapid movements called the black and just a few staff members at least, much of those that make them seem yellow Argiope, Argiope and sometimes minimal baroque frills have given aggressive. Most are auranti. It is almost 3 resources. way to more restrained, dark brown. Wolf spiders inches long from leg tip Touchless check-in, easy-to-clean minimalism. actively hunt prey and do to leg tip. They are also for example, means that Turner is hopeful things not use snares or webs. called writing spiders guests are handed a will go back to the way They have strong fangs because of their web’s sealed container with their they were before the and could bite if disturbed bold zigzag pattern. room key, single-use bath coronavirus, but that will or pinched. They inhabit Argiope spiders are very amenities and any other depend on the evolving grassy or leaf-covered common in backyard essentials that might understanding of how the areas and may be active gardens. Although otherwise be left in the virus is spread and how during the day or night. intimidating, their bite is room. Gone are in-room long it lives on surfaces. The female carries an egg only dangerous to people nonessentials, such as In the meantime, she sac on her rear end. Wolf who experience severe pillows and shams, bed says, “the fact that own- spiders do not persist allergic reactions to insect throws and decorative fig- ers are sacrificing some indoors but are common and spider bites. urines. “They’ve basically of their inns’ much-loved accidental invaders. More information Funnel web spiders about managing spiders (Agelenidae family), or is available at the grass spiders, resemble University of Kentucky wolf spiders but have a website HYPERLINK pair of long, distinctive, “http://www.uky.edu/ silk-spinning tubes at the Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/ rear of their abdomen. spiders/spiderfile.htm” The spiders live in http://www.uky.edu/Ag/ shrubbery, grass, under CritterFiles/casefile/ rocks, or in debris and spiders/spiderfile.htm seldom come indoors. or through the Daviess They build a horizontal, County Cooperative sheet-like web that has Extension Service Office a funnel-shaped retreat. at 270-685-8480 or annette. Webs are most obvious [email protected]. when covered with morning dew. ANNETTE’S TIP Jumping spiders There is much (Salticidae family) have information online, a distinctive body shape but for preserving and short, strong, front food safely, through legs; many are brightly colored or iridescent. canning and freezing Two very large eyes on for example, always use the front of the head give information from your them the best vision of local Extension Office, all spiders. They slowly the National Center for stalk their prey and Home Food Preservation, make a sudden pounce https://nchfp.uga.edu, from a short distance. or a state Extension Salticids occasionally website. You can also wander indoors and may use the Ball Blue Book overwinter there. for how-to information Crab spiders and recipes. In Daviess (Thomisidae family) have County, Katie Alexander, two, long, front pairs of Extension Agent for legs. They wait in ambush Family and Consumer for insect prey on plants, Science, is available to flowers, tree trunks or provide information at soil litter. They rarely 270-685-8480. enter buildings and do not persist indoors. Annette Meyer Heisdorffer is Cellar spiders the Daviess County extension (Pholcidae family) have agent for horticulture. Her very long, skinny legs and column runs weekly in small bodies. They make Lifestyle. Email her at annette. stringy webs in shady [email protected].