Tincup
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The nice thing about being up at 3:30 in the morning and being wide awake is that the mind can go anywhere it wants and have a good time.
You know I am going somewhere with that post title... "Frogs, Pneumatic Wrench & Aloe Plants"... don't you?
Ok... cold weather approaches. Got to bring in the house plants- lots of them- big ones too! Takes a few days to do it all.
Started dragging in the plants the other day. Some may have read about the ground bees nest I discovered in one of the large pots and the fact 8 bees stung me before I could get indoors. Ouch. Not funny!
Well, I've been drowning that plant and pot with water from afar and am hoping to drive out the bees. Anyhow...
Some may know that the car races were on TV on Sunday. Talledaga Baby! I was cleaning the house and cleaning up my plants, and listening to the race at the same time.
While taking a break, I noticed a really LOUD frog had come inside with my aloe plants. Couldn't see it, but could hear it two rooms away!
After the original loud noises, it stopped. A while later, the frog started up again, even louder. Then stopped.
Then later on, again the frog started up with the loud noises. If I put the TV on "mute", the frog would suddenly stop.
Eventually I noticed a pattern. Every time there was a "pit stop" and the tire changers were using the pneumatic wrench- it makes a very annoying rEEEEE rEEEEEE rEEEEE rEEEEEE sound as they remove and replace the lug nuts- the frog would start making noise.
That annoying sound was obviously exciting the frog and it was responding to the pit crew's rEEEEE rEEEEE noises!
And, being the goof ball that I am, I figured out that by using the remote control I could make the frog start and stop on cue. HA!
Of course when someone would come in, I would wait till I saw a pit stop coming up (with TV already on mute cause we'd be talking) and then I would do my "magic" by turning on the race and making the frog start the rEEEEE rEEEEEE rEEEEEE like noises.
Then I would give the remote to my company (pit stops don't last long) and they were NOT able to get the frog to make the noises like I could using that same remote control.
They were very puzzled about it. But I'd simply look at them and say... "Hey, you just ain't cool".
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I was up at midnight or so, reading about Bart, etc. Your frog story was more interesting this morning.
A few years back our neighbor got one of those little, YAPPY dogs. The kind that never really barks, just yaps. I never saw the danged thing and it's not a neighbor that i even want to talk to, let alone complain about their yappy dog. Thankfully, it never yapped at night, just early in the day.
So, one day i was in my own back yard and the GD thing started the same stupid yapping, but really loud...really close. I turned around in place to locate it, and lo and behold it was behind my outside AC unit. I went over, thinking I'd find the dog trapped.
Nope, you are ahead of me. It was a tree frog sort of thing, about an inch long, sitting on a stick, behind the AC.
God must have had fun designing a critter an inch long that yaps like a dog, loud enough to be heard fifty yards. One more entry for "Creature of the Week" here in Louisiana.
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just don
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I looked up 'cool' in the dictionary (okay I AM old school) and lo and behold first possible one was a picture of a Tincup!!!!
Course everybody already KNEW that,,,I am always dragging up the tail end on the knowledge wagon.
Dem little tree frogs,,,thats what I call them anyway,,,look more like crickets,,,but can put out a powerful frog noise. Least wise here.
But I for sure dont have one on remote control,,,cuz I aint cool,,,like Tincup!!!!
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Tincup
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Giapetto,
Think about this. What if humans made that much noise, and did it by size as compared to the frog! One inch makes that much noise? Think what we could do!
Hey McGuyver- I mean Just Don,
My bet is you could fix the frogs to work by remote control, as clever as you are! Just a string, a pencil eraser and a little WD-40 and you'd have invented a new noise maker!
You are a McGuyver, for sure. Anyone ever tell you that you even look like him!
Dogsandcats
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Years ago we had a dumpy tree frog. Slimer...my son took him to pet day and won an award for the best pet trick.... " sit slimer".
Every once in awhile the lid would be left off the cage....I found Slimer downstairs in the sink--what if I had turned on the disposal? Eeyyuuuuuu.
Found him once stuck to the shower curtain. And after digging thru all the toys, I looked on the back of a toy, and there was Slimer clinging on for life.
Slimer got to much for us, so he went to a person who evidently liked slimy things....and lived happily ever after!
-------------------- God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
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Lymedin2010
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I too have brought in plants for the winter, but instead of a cute singing frog, what do I get? A tick on the floor next to the plants that I had brought in.
Tick was crawling on the floor heading toward the wall molding. Before it could hide and I would imagine lay it's eggs in my residence, I grabbed a set of tweezers. Placed it in a ziplock bag and then put the whole thing in a coke bottle with the cap on. Placed this whole arrangement in the corner of the basement, where it can suffer and die a slow death.
Much like the suffering it has caused the people around me.
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linky123
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Ribbit - can anyone help get us outa here - we have no clue when that infernal rEEEEEEEEEEEEing will start up again - we're experiencing post traumatic rEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing stress syndrome and could use a little support - thanks, James, whoever you are -
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Dogsandcats
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I thought James was injured?
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linky123
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Tincup,
Are you and your frog gearing up for the Nascar race this weekend?
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