D.O.P.-T.

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Yesterday when I left the house a large gold spider was sitting in the center of a web attached to the porch rail directly opposite the door. The markings on its back looked like a hammer to me, but there were two dots in the head of the hammer so I reckoned it might be the infamous death's head and the kind of spider that causes lingering painful death. This morning that web was gone but a similar spider had secured one to the lower branches of one of the bushes in the driveway. Its back markings appeared to be different but it scuttled away as I tried to see them.