Tarantula!

I have a REALLY hard time with spiders. This is probably because my sister Emily was bitten by a Brown Recluse when she was a little girl. I have felt lucky that I have gone 2+ years up in these mountains without a sighting...until NOW! Two weeks ago our neighbors brought down a tarantula in a Mason jar that they had found in front of their house. The kids had a ball playing with it. So, last week when Bailey was getting dropped off in our driveway she practically stepped on one!!!! We think it was already dead. Well, Kelly runs out and he and the boys examined it but I stayed inside and refused to hand over a Mason jar!!!! Well, Kelly thought he would be funny and put the thing in the urn outside the front door. I didn't know this until a friend of ours told me that Kelly had done this. Luckily I hadn't gone out to water the boxwood or I think I would have had a heart attack! Later the next day and after finding out where the tarantula was laid to rest, the kids and I walked up to the boxwood and were aghast at what we found! The dirt had been dug out and spewed all over the front step and the tarantula was bit in half!!!!!! YUCK! I don't know what got it but I was literally disgusted out of my mind! Can you say Arachnophobia!!!!