A NOTE ON SPIDERS AND SNAKES

We go to a friends house each week day to talk and Learn Spanish.   The son helps us with Spanish and his mother cleans our house.   None speak English.   So, this morning the mom was telling us something about our little yard (see picture).  She was making motions like she was raking and holding her fingers out like spider legs,  and at the same time repeating the word araña.  Which we have been told means spider.  Well, Kathy and I begin to panic.   We interpreted this to mean "if we didn't rake the yard we would get gigantic spiders"  gigantic because we have only been seeing small spiders, and, since it is the raining season, it makes sense that with all the growth that big spears would come.  We spent at least 30 min just racked with big spider fear.  Finally we drew some pictures and addressed the subject again.  Well, it turns out that here, araña means rake. So we all had a big laugh after figuring it out,  and as we left, they said no spiders only snakes!!