It seems to happen almost every October. I'm out hiking in the desert as usual and I happen to encounter a hairy spider crawling along minding its own business. Naturally, I pull out my camera and bother the poor critter for a several minutes and take a few video clips of it doing whatever it decides to do. Of course, when I get home I put together a song and a video and upload the finished project to YouTube. In fact, if you peruse the songs page by clicking the Songs/Videos link at the top of this page, you'll find eight such projects! As previously mentioned most of these encounters with tarantulas occur in October. Oddly enough, there was one occasion on which I came upon a tarantula in January, but all other encounters have been in October or late September or early November.