I have just thrown out one of the biggest spiders I have seen in this house for some time. It was not Australian huge but big enough thank you very much.

I think this mus be a sign that I need some new glasses. I have been walking past that corner of the dining room and assumed that the darkened crumbled mass in the corner of the ceiling was just a collection of cobwebs and dust.

Something caught my attention about it tonight. It was over in the far corner of the room, defended by a couple years of, well, just stuff! I grabbed my binoculars to home in on the suspicious package and sure enough it was an 8 legged freak. They damn sure have too many legs. Mind you I guess they wonder just how the heck we get by with just four limbs!

I stumbled into the kitchen and retrieved a glass from the cupboard and a large envelope. Clambering across the "stuff" and balancing precariously on the tacky side board my ex wife bought many years back, I stretched over and trapped my octopedal foe, slid the envelope underneath and lifted it away from the wall.
The next phase of the operation was just as delicate as catching the thing. One trip here and I would send my arachnid intruder scuttling under the dining room table never to be seen again.

Looking at the critter through the glass I get a small shiver down my back. These ones really creep me out, amazing relics of 400 million years though they are, I just get shivers looking at them. I threw this one outside wondering whether doing this was effectively the same as flushing them down the toilet. Are they able to start over in the big wide world or did I condemn the little swine to be a hedgehogs breakfast? It seems more humane to throw them out but are they really able to survive? Well I don't actually care so much as long as they are not cluttering up my house!