Mee My Mo: My life as I know it, breathe it, live it and love it!

Okay, so we have moved out into the "country" and we have had a host of critters. We have a bee hive that keeps the cable and phone people from coming out and also from us turining on one the hot water heaters, as it is by the electrical box. We have had an invasion of ants, that poor Scarlet was their chosen victim. She had bites on her legs, arms, body and face. Her mattress was covered in ants. Now we have this thing. I am not quite sure what it is. This is how the story went down:

Scarlet is running down the spiral staircase in our bedroom, and says, "oh my gosh Mom, there is a black widow!!" So I come around and see this huge thing, but there is no red hourglass on it and I am just amazed at the girth of this creature. Dhyan come downstairs from taking a shower and has a cute little, pink towel wrapped around him. hes uncomfortable already because it's stiff and scratchy, as it is lined dried because the wiring for our dryer is not the same as the house wiring, thus, no dryer. Anyway, I give a coy smile and say, "Dhyan, you are going to have to do something you really are not gonna want to do...but it must be done, and it must be done tonight." He has a look of sheer stress and dread come over his face as he understands that impending doom that lay ahead of him. He hesitiantly ask, "how many are there?" We said just one, he replies, "what is it?" We all say in unison, "just go see for yourself." He goes and discovers and his face was picturesque! He then goes to the closet and gets his shotgun (unloaded of course) and pretends he's gonna shoot it. We decide this would be fun to play with Wiley as well. So we clal him down saying there is a spider that needs to be killed an dhe needs to help dad. His response was manly and says, how big? We starts down the stairs and Dhyan is pointing to it. he takes a second galnce and is serious when he says, "Thats not a spider!!" We asked then what is it? he says its an animal, then looks again and says, "Oh wait, it is spider!" At any rate, Dhyan ends up poing it witha stick and killing it. We all examined it afterwards and still couldn't figure out what it was! Any guesses?