Put Down the Kitchen Floor, Picked Up a Snake Sighting

Cowboy got the electricity finished wiring by afternoon, then he and I tackled the floor
Heron promised he'd help put it in—he'd put in a lot of floors, said it was really easy, he'd have it done in an hour.
I sent him a text, and he was still at work, but he'd be up soon.
So, we unrolled the underlayer—no instructions.
How hard can it be? 
Just unroll, right?
I Googled for instructions to make sure, and pretty much yep—just unroll.
Got that done.

Opened the little planks. 
Planks have no instructions—see a theme here? 
Maybe a salvage store isn't exactly where one should purchase do-it-yourself flooring.
Clear instructions sure would have been nice.
OK, no biggie. 
Heron says it's easy.
Uh-huh, sure it was. 
Well, actually if you knew what you were doing it turned out to be super easy, it's just like a puzzle-line it up & click in place
But we didn't know what to do. 
We'd never installed a floating floor.
So, back to Google to the rescue—three or four videos later, and we tackled it.
We had finished up the middle of the floor by the time Peacock and Heron showed up at 5 p.m.
Heron and Cowboy finished the edge of the floor—those pieces had to be trimmed to fit—and called it quits around 8 p.m.

Maybe it will be finished tomorrow. 
There are just the baseboards, trim, cabinets, and countertops to go.

Badger and I were outside, oh, around 8 p.m. tonight. 
We were trying to find an escaped cat.
We don't have streetlights, and our porch light is fairly dim, so the yards are dark and shadowy.
Well, she goes, “Oh, there’s a snake”—so calm and casual.
I look over, and there’s this fairly large snake bobbing its head, crawling up the side of my blooming house.
I sent her inside for Cowboy—she came out with Heron.
By the time they got back out, the snake had backed itself—and I kid you not—backed itself up and disappeared into a little bitty hole we have in the foundation of the house.
That blimey snake is slithering somewhere under my house.
I do not think it was a common black snake—it seemed to have a pattern to it, but that corner is particularly dim.
The porch light shone just enough that we could see the snake, but not enough to identify it.
We know now to be very cautious around the foundation of the house and not to be just putting our hands in flowers and bushes.
My biggest fear is that it will slither its way into the house—it’s happened before.