Re: OT-- FROG!

One evening I heard the cat playing with something outside my quilting room. When I investigated, I found the cat and a small garter snake playing on the stairs. We rescued the snake and put it outside - the cat was not pleased!

-- Teresa in Colorado snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net

I love it when I can start the day off with a laugh! Read your post to my DH and DGD and started their day off right, too!!!

That Dusty always was a wiley one.

I hear frogs all around the outside of my house at night, but no sound coming from the frogs in my pond. It's really quite funny. (well, at 2:30AM when you can't sleep and are thinking random thoughts, it is.)

That happened to me a couple weeks ago. Picked up dh's hat that was on a side table, and there was a little tree frog there. He was still moist, so hadn't been in the house long, so i took him outside.

We found a little lizard in the shower. Only about 3 inches long and so cute. DH caught him and we put him outside. Luckily QI Sugar did not find it first. She spends the evenings sitting in front of the door waiting for a bug to crawl in, so far nothing, but she is ready!!!

Maybe you only have girl frogs in your pond? (Who knows, maybe they got the pond in the divorce...)

When my DS and his family were living in Puerto Rico, they had lizards all over the place. One year I made some little Christmas ornaments out of candy canes and lace - sent them one. Later Jan (my DDIL) told me that Elsie (their dog) ate the candy cane. I couldn't figure out how Elsie could climb the tree to get the candy cane. A lizard was running around in the Christmas tree and knocked the candy cane off & then Elsie ate it!

Wish we could get even a couple of thunderstorms a week out here. The other night it actually got down to a low of 95 degrees. A record high low temp. Rain would be nice.

Pati,in Phx.

"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote:

One of our old cats used to bring baby froglets into the lounge and deposit them on the carpet... tiny little bright green things... we still haven't worked out where the pond is in the neighbourhood...

...and then there was the slow-worm that got caught in a loop of carpet-wool...

...and the time we came home from work one evening, opened the front door to find yellow budgie feathers covering the stairs, and one little foot, the bloke who owned the budgie aviary in the garden opposite must have been well cheesed off...

Suzie B

-- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK

You sure it wasn't actually covered in thread because it was frog stitching?

I would have died, right there on the spot. Heart attack or sheer fright, I'm not sure which.

Those creatures are my one dire phobia.

Really really dire.

NightMist shuddering and twitching just from seeing the "F" word

GROAN!!!!!!

My daughters (age (almost)6 and 3.5 were riding their bikes when they came rushing into the house in hysterics because there was "a giant, snapping frog" on the sidewalk preventing them from bringing their bikes back upto the garage. I went out and found a little (about 1 inch) common toad. The younger daughter eventually was coaxed into touching it and eventually even had it sit on her arm for a minute or two. The older one wouldn't come within 5 feet of it! It was re-released back into a safer part of our front yard.

grrrooonnneee! ;P

Well, it startled us, but I don't really mind frogs. I just had to get it out before someone stepped on it! I put a plastic bowl over it and slid some card under it as I didn't want to hurt it by handling it.

Not sure If Rimrock is up by Sedona we are about 2-2 1/2 hours from there, depending on traffic and weather and road. I am in Phoenix proper, a couple of miles off I-17.

Pati, in Phx

Shelly wrote:

I thought you JUST moved? I hate moving! Like going somewhere new, just hate the process of getting there!

Hmm. Guess you won't be visiting my pond then. :( I have to keep telling my kids not to keep picking up the frogs as I believe my kids are their one dire phobia!