Last week the wife and I were coming home at around ten and as I pulled in the driveway she screamed, "Look at that!" A spider had built an orb web that spanned from our bushes to an old oak tree 10 feet away and then off to the house which was a good 40 feet away. It was the biggest damn web I have ever seen and must have gone from the ground to 15 feet into the air with no more than a half inch between each spiral of the web. I got out of the car and walked up to it and there was a grey spider about the size of a quarter in the middle of it. I blew on the web, and when I did the spider jumped up and down shaking the entire web and the weird thing was I could actually hear the web moving. We left the web undisturbed, and the next morning it was gone.
I have looked for it every night since, but have yet to see it again. It was by far the craziest web I have ever seen.
Thing probably died after expending all that energy on one web.

