Earlier today my wife found what looked like a black widow spider, so we looked it up and sure enough the markings were those of the northern black widow. It was only about 1/4” long though so it was either young or male.

I live in southern Sask. We don’t get black widows here. I’ve had acrophobia since I was a little kid, the only thing allowing me to go out into the bush is the idea we don’t have poisonous spiders.

Now they’re coming after me. It isn’t fair.