Spooky Spider

I was going to let Tonka out on Sunday night and I did the normal scan for spider webs outside the door because I've walked through quite a few webs in our backyard. I noticed a spider on the bottom of the eve of the dinning room bay window. Our sliding glass door is right under it, so its protected from the rain and stuff. Well Heather was in the basement with me and I told her to come look at this "black spider with a red dot on its back". Of course she didn't believe me and thought I was only kidding her.
You'd think after I killed the copperhead snake in our backyard and had asked her to identify it that she'd realize that I look to her as my personal Steve Irwin. (well steve before he went swimming with the sting ray, of course) She grew up with the complete collection of Autobahn books, so she can identify at least the dangerous things in our backyard. She still has a hard time with poison ivy, but other things she's pretty good with.
HB come over and freaked out a bit, as she knew it was a black widow spider. Thankfully we were safely standing on the other side of our trusty Pella sliding glass door with double pane glass. She ran upstairs and came back down with a whole slew of Google images of black widow spiders. It appears we have a male spider as our "pet", which I guess is a good thing considering it won't be having a little family.
I called Reston Zoo to see if they'd be interested in capturing it. If I don't hear from them today then I'll be calling our good friends at Connor's to come take care of things.
Its always fun in a wooded backyard!