Sid, The Streeterville Spider - The Final Chapter

I haven't updated you on Sid, Sally, Saul and Sam since the the end of August.  So much has happened since then that I'm not sure where to start.  Okay - Sally finally took the plunge and moved over to Sid's window.  She didn't entirely abandon her web, but spent less and less time there.  Sam and Saul moved downstairs to another pane and continued to live a pretty sedentary life.

I noticed that Sid was spending more and more time away from his original web, leaving Sally alone a lot.  She continued  to maintain both webs.  One day, I spotted Sid on the window in the den - pretty far north from his home.  The fact that this coincided with the start of football season is not unimportant.  The TV set is in the den and it only makes sense that Sid would be a football junkie, given his other macho traits.

Occasionally he 'd go back south to his home, where Sally bravely tried to keep him happy without the TV and the NFL.  Saul and Sam had become restless and moved around between the first floor of their two flat to Sid and Sally's second floor space.  From time to time, they'd join Sam at the den window - but I suspect they were more NASCAR than NFL and NASCAR will never show itself on our TV screen, except by accident when we are channel surfing. 

One day they just picked up and moved to the farthest south window of the living room.  I think they spent most of their time sulking.  Once or twice I saw Sally run over there to check on them. Her maternal instincts still in tact, in spite of the way she was being treated by Sid.  Pretty soon Sally started losing interest in her own web.  Neglected, it started to shrink and the entrapped gnats and such started dropping away - the food source was disappearing - not a good sign.  With Sid gone most of the time and Saul and Sam acting sour and sullen, Sally was losing her spirit.  One day she left in the morning and instead of coming back after the midday sun was gone she simply flew away. 

I don't know if she found a new love, or moved in with some girlfriends or simply knew that these guys were coming and this time they meant business.  In any event - she must not have warned the others.  They were still there on the morning of the window washing.  After the window washers left, I waited a day or two for Sid, Saul and Sam to return. as they had done the last time.   They didn't.  Winter will be upon us soon and the lake will not bless us with any more spiders until next year.  I hope that wherever Sid, Sally, Saul and Sam are that they are happy.  They provided us with months of fun watching them.  Look out for them on a window pane near you.  Every time you see a fake spiderweb in someones Halloween decorations - think of Sid and his friends.  I know I will.