This morning as I was walking out the door, Lucy stopped me and told me that there was a spider in the doorway to the ‘doghouse’.  I followed her in to see the spider.  She stopped in the middle of her room, got on her hands and knees and put her head near the floor.
I looked at the doorway and saw some old cobwebs in the corner so got close, bent down and peered into the bottom corner.  I didn’t see any spider so I turned to tell Lucy there were only webs and I came within about 3 inches of putting my face into a black widow on her web in the middle of the doorway.  Lucy had been right.  The spider was a couple of inches off the floor, hanging upside down so that its hourglass was very visible.

I took a picture and then squashed the spider with my shoe.

Sorry about the blur.  It didn’t look so blurry on the little screen of my phone…