Don't Smush Her!

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Friends, how do you feel about spiders? I'm more than a little afraid of them. If they are bigger than a grain of sand, I want them far, far away from me. But at the same time I find some of them very pretty, and most of them very helpful. They do, after all, eat lots of insects. The world would be much buggier without spiders. This morning there was a LARGE garden spider in our yard. She was up in the air, between a tree and our shed, and my husband came in saying she "had to go." Now, while I would never try to pet, hold, or get within 3 feet of this pretty arachnid, I didn't want her to be mushed so I pled for her to be exiled instead. I don't think hubby really wanted to kill her either, but he was not going to leave her in the yard where the kids or the dogs might accidentally run face first into her web. He scooped her up on a stick and tossed the whole thing over our fence into the messy area behind our house. So, large spider lives to eat another bug. Do you relocate or smush spiders you find outside? Or do you leave them right where they are?