04.09.07
The frog saga has continued
For those of you who have been reading along with my blog (thank you by the way!) you may remember the frog blog.
I’ve created my own problem by placing the frogs found in the yard next to the pond. One was nice, two were fine but then we moved on to three and the croaking was really loud. We thought all this croaking was done because the ‘breeding’ season was suppose to be over. Apparently not!
With my oldest son comming home for some much needed R & R I decided once again to go on a frog hunt so he could sleep in silence. So out the family went. I waited until Saturday night while we were watching The 10 Commandmants. I figured we would do the frog thing while the movie was showing the plage scenes…kind of poetic I thought, plagues, frogs, burning hail…you see the connection? Anyway, I asked the Dh to start lifting up the big slabs of rock that surrond my pond. After he almost fell in I took on the job. I know my neighbors think we are truly weird, all standing around the pond with a flashlight and the DH holding the soon to be frog container.
Four, I found four under one rock. One was really fat and the Dh said that must be the female. Overlooking the obvious assumption that if a frog is fat it is female, I gathered the four frogs up and placed them into the jar. Off we went, all four of US, to the tub in the garden. It is a nice tub, old cast iron enamel type thing sunk into the ground with rocks surrounding it. A very nice home for frogs.
By Sunday morning 6 a.m. to be exact they were back. How did they find their way so quickly? Is this a game for them? Maybe it is a game for us? Maybe we are then ones who are being made fun of. Hmmmm. Anyway, all four are back and croaking up a storm. Hopefully that female will get on with business and lay her eggs so the guys will go on to something else like living quietly under a rock and eating mosquito larvae. After all, that is why I put them there in the first place.
Won’t the new owners of our house just love the croaking next spring? I consider that kind of a going away present from me! Welcome to the country. I wonder if I need to disclose that information under “unusual or excessive noises in your vicinity”?
Pam said,
April 9, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hmmm…maybe you could tell them they are ‘endangered’ frogs and that makes the property even more valuable…
Lynette said,
April 9, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Then the tree huggers would be picketing. I probably would have to disclaim that too.