Halloweekend Festivities

Another ridiculously busy weekend has passed us by in the Floyd House:Halloween Weekend AKA Halloweekend.The highlight of the weekend was that Kate and I finally were able to reveal our costume on Saturday at the Halloween party. We have been planning this costume since the first week we met each other back in August so there was a lot of pressure to perform.

*Insert Drum Roll Please*

We dressed up as our crew leader, Tony, and his wife, Liz!



Tony, Kate as Tony, Liz, Me as Liz





The costume was a huge hit with everybody at the party and a lot of people kept confusing the look-a-like Tony for the real Tony. I wish I had a picture of Tony's reaction when he walked into the party. He was completely dumbfounded - it was great! I can imagine it would be odd to walk into a party and see an exact copy of yourself waiting to greet you. The night was even made better by the fact, that Kate and I had a clean sweep of the contests that night. She won 'Best Costume' and I ended up winning the pumpkin carving contest with my creation to the right.

In recognition of Halloween, I'd thought I'd also share a little story about an encounter I had with some wildlife last week at work. I was working underneath the porch of the house tacking up a wire with these little plastic clips to keep it from interfering with the Tyvek paper we were wrapping the house with. For this story to make sense, I have to explain the space where I was working. The front porch on this house is 9 feet high so the space underneath it is quite spacious and is actually mostly a concrete slab that butts up against the basement of their house. While you are standing underneath it you can see all the boards from the deck above and the joists that are holding it together. So I am standing on my ladder tacking up this wire and just moving right along with hardly any problems. I notice in a gap between some boards (that are maybe 6 inches from my face) a piece of what looks like fuzz which I account to the fact that this house was previously insulated with old newspapers and pieces of cloth. However, upon closer inspection, I realize it is NOT a piece of fuzz, but rather some sort of dead animal - a mouse to be exact. Its hanging upside down and all that is sticking out is its head. I can see its eyes which are closed and its face, but that's it. I called up to Tony and Kate, who were installing a door on the porch, and informed them of my discovery, but assured them I was fine. I decided to lean in for a closer look and when I was about two inches away, all of a sudden its' eyes popped open and it looked directly at me. I let out the loudest, girliest scream and jumped down from the ladder as quickly as I could.

Not only was it NOT a piece of fuzz, it was an animal, and NOT a dead one, but a LIVE one, and NOT a mouse, but a bat.



The bat's face
(My exact view when it opened its eyes)







The bat's butt
(View from on top of the porch)



Needless to say, Tony and Kate came down to check on me (really just make fun of me for being a baby) and after we all stared at it for a while and took some photos we were back to work none the worse for the wear.

Except for the fact that I am still trying to live this moment down.