Friday, August 15, 2008

RIBBIT! RIBBIT! CROAK! PLEASE CROAK!

Ok I don't know what it is that's going on here in McKinney but I feels like a Lake Placid only with frogs instead of alligators. There is a nice little pond across the street with a waterfall and everything - beautiful - I thought it would be great scenery to have across from us but I am beginning to wonder now. Today I was out pulling weeds and Brooklyn was playing by the front door and all of a sudden a BLOOD CURDLING scream - I run over and grab her and she is absolutly freaking out and that's when I see it jump in the bushes. I grab her and run inside peeking around the corner I realize it is the BIGGEST FREAKING FROG I have ever seen I mean literally the size of a small Chihuahua. And when this thing hopped it went 2 to 3 feet with each hop - no wonder she was so upset. Poor Brookie it took me 5 minutes to calm her down she was so shaken with tears just rolling. After I did I grabbed my camera and we went after it - her right behind me and me telling her the whole time it's just a frog. By the end she was asking "where is my baby frog?" - that thing is anything but a baby. Our yard has gotten so scary from rabbits lurking in the shadows to the dead skunk Rocky killed in the backyard last week (and no I don't think he got sprayed by miracle he didn't smell) to the snake Melissa and David found at our front door one day when they came over - I am scared to go outside - what next?


This is what they looked like in June - is this the Momma looking for her babies?

2 comments:

Jules said...

Okay so that would TOTALLY freak me out too! But I'd much rather have it be a frog than a snake. :) I wonder what it eats to get that big.

Fairbank Family said...

Holy cow! That totally looks fake. I don't think I have ever seen a frog so big. I love frogs, but not real ones:)

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