Those of you who know my dad, Larry, also know of his crippling struggle with arachnophobia. You may also be aware of the crazed lunatic he becomes when he in fact does cross paths with a spider.

In light of these facts, you will be very pleased to hear that I removed and disposed of this specimen before he got out of bed this morning!

I shudder to think of the destruction he would have imposed had he found it first.

In case you can't get the scale from this pic, the width of this beauty was 4 inches!