O HAI

We found this big and extremely aggressive son of a bitch on our porch the other day.



Click for full size, if you dare. You really can't tell from the picture, of course, but fully extended, he had a legspan of almost three inches, and would step to anyone who approached him. D knocked down his web with a broom after it looked like he was no longer in it, and he came running around the corner of the porch column and tried to get on the broom.

So, I am trying to be more tolerant of spiders, leaving them alone unless they really bother me, and then trying to shoo them off, but one that size and with that much of a chip on its shoulder, Hulk smash. I feel very guilty whenever I kill a spider, which makes arachnophobia a real bitch, lemme tell ya.