You Can't Sneak Up On Frogs

Things that I have learned from my mother:

And believe me this will be an ongoing list but for now I shall start with this bright new number that was laid on me the other day with the discovery of a frog in my parents backyard. I get called into the other room last night for my mom to announce there is a frog in our backyard. *note that we live in the "city" part of our rural community and my mother is no country bumpkin.

I'm still trying to figure out where this country itch of mine comes from. Maybe my sister will figure that our as she tracks our heritage.

As interesting as the discovery of a frog in our backyard, only at this point by sound, I went back to what I was doing. Half an hour later my mother decides it is time to find it. So she asks me to keep the dogs at bay while she heads out the back door with a flashlight. Anybody else know where this is going? Yep. Ten minutes later she reenters the house with a look of defeat.

"Well?" I ask.

"He stopped croaking the minute I got out there" my mother replies

"Huh. Really?" I say sarcastically

"Yeah, but I'm gonna try and go around another way."

"Ooookkaaayy"

She leaves out the garage door now.

Fifteen minutes later she reenters again.

"Find him?" I inquire again.

"Nope. He stopped again"

"You can't sneak up on a frog" I tell her shaking my head.

"Oh yes you can. I've done it before. I got all the way out to the potted plant before he stopped croaking".

"Okay then. Good luck"

Next morning.....

"That frog is still out there. I heard it all last night"

"Yeah, they do that"

"I told your father that frickin' frog better shut it! Don't they sleep? And he told me during the day!"

"Yep"

"Damn it! I'm gonna find that sucker today"

"Okay mom"

"I will, I bet I know where he is too. But he better not jump out at me or I'll scream"

Several hours later.....

"Find the frog?" I, of course already knew the answer do to the lack of screaming. She's not a bug person either.

"Nope. And I looked"

"How hard?"

"Not very..."

"Didn't want it to jump out at yah huh?"

"Nope".

And so another night begins with the frog still unfound.