\n\t\t\t\tBlack widow red hour glass\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\nI don’t know how every water meter lid works, but most all of the ones I have seen have a little hole by which you can grab and remove the lid. \u00a0 I assume the water department has a little tool they use to stick down in the hole and lift the lid. \u00a0The tool I have . . . is a finger. \u00a0So, with a little trepidation, I stuck my little finger into the hole on the lid and flipped it over. \u00a0 When I did, I got a big surprise. \u00a0There on the underside of the lid was the biggest black widow spider I had ever seen. \u00a0 She was kicking and wiggling in her nest, very unhappy to be disturbed.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, I was careful to flip the cover over and expose it rather than grab underneath the lid to lift it off. \u00a0Otherwise, she may have bit me. I survived, unharmed. \u00a0A can of wasp spray made sure she did not. \u00a0 This whole incident did remind me though, that some\u00a0pretty nasty things like to hide in dark places.<\/p>\n
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light\u00a0(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),\u00a0finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.\u00a0And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.\u00a0For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.\u00a0But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.\u00a0Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”\u00a0See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,\u00a0redeeming the time, because the days are evil.<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 – Ephesians 5:8-16 \u00a0NKJV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The black widow spider was lurking under the water meter lid. \u00a0It was a perfect place. \u00a0A dark, hidden recess in the ground. \u00a0Protected from the elements and almost never visited by man. \u00a0Almost. 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