Oddly enough, there was a ginormous Giant House Spider hunkered down on the stairs to my basement this morning.

I put the poor thing in a pint jar and gave it to the kids. After Alex (the 4 year old) threatened to take it to his daycare house today, I had to take away their new "pet" and put it on the mantle.

Now that I know these ugly huge monsters are harmless house spiders, if it survived the trauma that is Alex, I'll let him (the spider, not Alex) go outside when I get home.

I tried taking some macro photos of the spider, but apparently the lens on my SLR isn't the best at macro shots.