Simon is a jumping spider that has eight hairy legs that look like pipe cleaners, four eyes, and two bright blue pinchers.
He can jump as high as a grasshopper and is about the size of a strawberry. His stomach made a huge rumble. He was hungry.
Simon is on a mission to find the perfect spot to build his web.
He looks up with his four eyes and sees a tree next to a house. He tries climbing up the trunk, but he keeps falling because it is too steep. He tries jumping, but it is way too high.
He isn’t going to give up because he is patient. He knows he will eventually get up there.
He is crawling up a water spout, but it starts to rain. The rain comes down and washes the spider out.
He wears a raindrop as a hat and tries again, but it is no use because it is still raining. So, he camps out near the tree and uses a fallen leaf for coverage.
He waits patiently all night, so he could have a meal.
By the next day, the sun has dried up all the rain and Simon crawls through the pipe like a dark tunnel. He reaches the top of the gutter and slowly approaches the edge of the roof.
The spot that he wants is in view, and he jumps onto one of the tree branches. He starts to spin his web. He jumps from one branch to the next, back and forth.
He could start to connect the strings of silk, going around and around until it is perfect for catching bugs when the web is sturdy.
His web is finally constructed and now he waits for lunch. He patiently sits on his silk web, waiting for a bug to fly into it like a net. The web vibrates, and he opens all of his eyelids as he fills with glee, only to be disappointed that it is a false alarm. He was tricked by the wind blowing his web.
He decides to leave his eyes open this time as he patiently sits on his web. It vibrates, and again it was a false alarm; it was just a leaf that fell from above.
His web vibrates for the third time and it is the real deal. A fly gets stuck on the sticky strings, but again the fly was moving too much, so he could not have lunch just yet.
He spins more silk around the fly, wrapping him up like a mummy. Simon covers every inch of the fly, making it impossible for him to break free and stay still.
After all that waiting Simon finally has the chance to feed his rumbling stomach.
His waiting and hard work pay off; he finally is able to soothe his stomach as he eats his lunch.
Good things come to those who wait. If he wasn’t patient on getting the perfect spot, then he would have never gotten to eat his meal.
