Monday, December 30, 2013

Really Cool Bug

I found this REALLY COOL bug in our pond outside in the shallows so I scooped it up and identified it. That is a full sized post-it note behind it. A really large bug. I was looking up its name, it's common name is simply large water beetle, its scientific species is belostomatidae. The coloring is beautiful with greens and deep rich browns, unfortunately the picture doesn't do it justice.

My muddy boots, I was wadding through some deep mud.

Halloween

The week before and the week of Halloween brought us some new adventures. Around the corner there was a haunted house who was looking for actors. I and my hubby volunteered.We had a lot of fun. We were able to use the skills we had gained in acting from our pasts and work on getting those even better. Gordon had the role where he got to really freak people out with throwing them onto cousins and making them feel as though they truly were in danger. He didn't bother with the being creepy part. He went hard core on those poor people. The haunted house allowed us to touch people and even throw and move people who had signed a waiver. My role was a hostess where I was primarily used to help the flow of people. I worked as a fairly creepy role where I worked with my mask on, so no facial expressions and without a voice. I communicated solely on body language and hand gestures. Which was lots of fun. I found I accidentally used a lot of basic sign to communicate, it was fun to notice people who noticed and then would sign back.






For Halloween itself we went to the Spencer's home and a neighbors for scones and to hang out with neighborhood friends. Gordon, and others, had been telling me I look a great deal like Rose Tyler from Doctor Who. I suppose I look a bit like her, but not too much. But because I wanted to be lazy for Halloween I chose to be Rose. Gordon went as a mug shot. 





We came home one night to find this little kitten on our doorstep being cold and meowing at us. So naturally being a kind hearted person, we let her in for the night were she promptly climbed into bed with us and spend the night sleeping on Gordon. We let her out the next morning and she wouldn't go home, she didn't leave our door. We wondered what we were going to do with her. I called up the animal shelter in the area and asked if anyone had been looking for such a cute thing, nobody was. I assumed she hadn't wandered far from home. But we look precautions to see if she would work at my sister's who already had a cat. The cats didn't enjoy each other, so we took her back to our place where we let her out and were only going to let her back in the house if she still hadn't found her home by that night. Luckily our neighbor was out looking for her and saw her trailing after my feet to our apartment. It was a very happy reunion.