There is a giant wolf spider that has been living in my barn, though I suspect she's probably nearing the end of her life span and probably won't be around this year. I've never seen a Michigan spider THAT big! Legs spread, she'd fill the bottom of a large muffin tin. I Think she's beautiful and love seeing her around.

"Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair." --"Fool" by Christopher Moore