The Life-Threatening Tropical Garage-Spiders of New England

On days like today, when we're seriously stuck at home, it makes me nervous when Daniel resolves to go scavenging through the basement and the garage in search of new toys among the vast stash stored in those two cold, unpleasant places. Today, he went out to garage in search of toys, but he returned very quickly, which relieved me of the duty of fishing him out. And he explained what made him return to the house so hastily:

"I was afraid there might be dangerous spiders, so I went in."

(March 6, 2011)