There was a spider in my shed once, that I swear was every bit of 5" across. It was on the door, and I thought wow look at that. I took my phone out to get a good picture and as I was trying to get closer it LEAPED out onto my phone then landed on the grass, and started to CHASE ME. I researched what type of spider it could have been, and never could figure it out. If you've heard of a wolf spider, imagine that with red legs halfway down and much bigger. I remember saying AH AH, AH WTF WTF as I was jogging away. I had to exterminate it as I didnt want that thing biting my kids. Sorry to say. I figured it snuck in one of the many boxes of 'stuff' that I buy from Amazon. Because Ive never seen anything like it, and I basically lived in the woods/fields all throughout my childhood and young adult life.
I also had an infestation of yellow jackets in my shed. Heard a buzzing and looked under my peg board and there's a 1' nest in there. I waited until 10pm at night, snuck in there and just unleashed two cans of wasp spray. Next morning there must have been 1000 yellow jackets on the ground dead
Mice decided that the canvas bag that holds my cleaning rods would be a good place to make a nest w/ baby mice.
And if you really want to get creeped out. My wife bought dog food and bird food for our cabin, and had it delivered last spring. We were expected to come up the next weekend. Then due to illnesses, birthday parties, ice storms, all sorts of issues - it was 2.5 months before we were able to get up there. Every drawer had a mouse nest. Every cabin drawer was filled with mouse crap. Every horizontal surface had mouse crap. It took me two weekends to clean, burn, sterilize the place. Since then Ive caught probably a dozen or so mice. I hate mice, with a strong passion.
I also have ALOT of snakes in my area. They all seem to be failing at their job.
Last scary nature moment - I was making coffee which the coffee maker faces my outside door. I saw a shadow near my woodpile around dusk. One that Ive never seen cast on the woodpile. Then the shadow moved and grew, until I saw large eyes. Turns out the shadow was the ass of a very large bear, and the movement was the bear picking it's head up to look at me. I yelled FFFFing bear!! Twice. Kids sat there on their ipads like nothing was going on. Wife was in recliner struggling to get out to come look. I turned my head back towards the spot again and notice it's coming TOWARDS our door swiftly. OH sh*T! It sniffed at the door, then turned and walked into the window. With and I collide HARD trying to look at the bear. It saunters over to the neighbors, rips down the burn feeder and then lays down eating the birdseed while their dogs go NUTS. Bear didnt care.
Living in the middle of the woods has it's pros, and the cons above do not outweigh the pros..
