Orbs 'r' Us

Happy Halloween....only 31 days til Halloween!
28 days til opening of haunt!!!
Well...we got through the first night without any spooky happenings! Although, I was unable to unlock the back door and PoD had to unlock instead. This has happened to me before with this door!
This one time I tried, I was able to unlock the door but when I pushed it open I could feel this slight resistance liked the place was air tight or someone/thing was holding it for a few seconds. That place leaks heat like crazy and could never be called air-tight! So everytime I go to unlock this door I always feel hesitant about whats it gonna be.
Pod made a comment about this might not be a good sign and maybe we should come back tomorrow night! But like the brave little soldiers that we are we went in.
With the paranormal group we found that Friday nights are somewhat quiet and Saturday nights more active. So with this knowledge and that I didn't have any creepy feelings about going in there, I felt brave enough to go in.
I'm not sure if PoD's comment made her nervous or not but she was jumpy all night. It didn't help that the place has bats and spiders in it either!
The Minnions got to see bats flying that night! We all know that bats live in the attic of this place and that they fly around at night but we never usually get to see them. Last night it got fairly warm out and they were flying in and out of the huge gaping hole [that some idiot put in this beautiful building...but we won't get into that right now] that was in the roof. When you stand below the mess and look up you can see that the eaves is damaged also. It wasn't fully dark yet and you tell that they were bats by the way they flew and the hole being so large they had easy access. So we had a short bat lesson but all that did is worry the female minion and that they would get in her short hair...we had a good lol about that one.
Bravely we entered the place and got to work. With the chimney gone they can't turn the heat on and thankfully it was cool in there! First thing we found is that they turned the water off in the basement and we couldn't wash counters or use the john down there.
We started in the Custodial Quarters and removed the garbage left from the last year of the haunt. The outer walls are in pretty bad shape and we've got to cover-up a lot more. Some of them are covered already but have lots of crud from the wall fallen to the floor...so we had to sweep it all up before we could measure and tape the layout of the walk. In the living room area one part was pretty cobwebby but PoD thought she'd be brave and sweep it out...well she came face to face with the biggest, ugliest [her words not mine] spider and totally freaked out! I got a glimpse of this huge monster....ugly -yes monster -no! Just a creepy spider! That was it for control on her nerves and anything...yes I mean anything...set her off! Her being jumpy means a lot of scares for whom ever is around her!
We took a lot of fresh air breaks and gave the minions a time to run around. Forgetful me forgot the masks to keep the harmful dust motes out so we improvised by turning our sweaters around and breathe through the collar. Worked pretty good.
We also took time to check out the new lights [my old ones finally bit the dust and need to buy more...one expense we didn't need but it happens] and where to use them. With clean-up done, we taped the floors and planned the layout of walk until I ran out of tape. With that as a good excuse we turned out the lights and left.
I took a few final pictures and then we left. The evening was spook free and the only scary thing was PoD and her phobia!
So one section cleaned and ready to set up and it only took us 2 1/2 hours to do. The next clean-up will be tonight and it will be in the old dentist office. Hopefully the spooks will keep leaving us alone...but tonight is SATURDAY...their party night...so who knows?
Orbing out for now QoH