Spiders, Spiders huge Spiders

I had just taken the kids to school when I pulled into the garage. I got out of the car and looked down at the small ledge right next to the car where I saw the kids toy spider, so I thought. I was about to pick it up when I realized that it wasn't a toy, it was this huge wolf spider, yuck. Oh and I need to mention that it was kind of dark in the garage, my eyes aren't that bad. Anyway, I didn't want to step on it, it was too big and there would be guts everywhere. But at the same time I didn't really want to catch it because what if I didn't get it and I had to chance meeting it again or stepping on it by accident blaaah! However I found a bucket and was able to catch it without a hitch. It was literally the size of Brigham's hand. We took it over to the field behind the house and let it go. The boys thought it was really cool. The story doesn't end there, look what Teancum found about a week after we let the spider go...

This one wasn't quite as big, but still huge. I hope we don't encounter too many more of these.

P.S. The spider picture on the top is pretty true to it's real size on the screen, just in case you were wondering.