Spider

There has been a spider residing on our front porch for some time.  It would build webs repeatedly – always on the side of the door near the light.  I guess that would be prime real estate for catching bugs.  I tolerated it for quite awhile.  I didn’t love it.  I don’t love spiders, although I do like them when I can view them in a cage.  If they are in my house, I pretty much kill them immediately (or have Jeremy if he is around).  But this one, I was letting live because it was outside in its own environment and not really bothering me. 

It all changed the other day when I realized this spider was growing in size.  Additionally it seeming to make its home permanent.  I feared it was nesting and preparing for all the little baby spiders that would emerge… and obviously, enter my home and infest it.  Needless to say, I decided I would not tolerate it anymore.  I asked Jeremy to “take care of it”. 

I pictured slamming it between two heavy boards, shoes, objects to really “take care of it.”  Jeremy apparently just got it with a paper towel, which honestly kinda wigs me out.  I did take a photo of it.  And as I looked at it, I decided that God had made a beautiful spider (just one that needed to have a different home).