Yesterday, I was in my back yard pulling some weeds and leaned up against a portion of my back porch when I felt something brush up against my arm. I do not like anything crawling on me at all but when I had walked into that area of the yard I had saw a small lizard and just thought that it was the lizard climbing up the wall that I was leaning against to get away from me.
Anything brushing up against me makes me jump when I am not expecting it but when I looked back to where I had just moved from, this Tarantula the size of my hand was just getting to the top of the wall onto the back porch.
After I caught my breath and calmed down a bit from the startle, I ran in the house and got my phone so that I could take a few photos of it. I also pulled up some info on the internet to learn more about them. I was surprised to learn that October is the start of Trantula mating season, so the males go roaming about in search of a mate. Due to this, I will probably see several more of them over the next few weeks.
I just need to remember not to be as jumpy when I see the next one in the near future.