As I spent part of the morning sweeping spider webs from various nooks and crannies in my house, a daily task here this time of year, I realized that we have always associated spiders and spider webs with old haunted houses, Hallowe'en and supernatural beliefs.

However, it occurred to me, (maybe I'm slow to connect the dots, while others just take this as a matter of course) that the reason that spider webs might have been originally connected with Hallowe'en, has nothing to do with old, ghostly, unoccupied houses.

This is the time of year when spiders venture into our houses in great numbers, the time when the night grow a little damp and chilly and the days get shorter, the Harvest Season and as such have everything to do with the natural and nothing with the supernatural.

Anyone else, (southern hemisphere exempt), plagued by spiders now or is this just a rural BC phenomenon?