on one of the posts that made up the front deck. it was a 4 x 4 post, and this spider was setting with its legs wrapping around the post! that means, it had a leg spread of over 4 ½ inches across! the body was close to two inches long. and it had babies!!!!! wrapped inside a protective web were hundreds, no thousands of little hairy eight legged future monster spiders! still gives me the willies thinking about it.
i know, i know; this story is about the middle of the night. i’m getting there, so be patient. i’m still working around the outside. another thing which lived in my 