this is what it looks like when i blog after whacking right hand on sharpish kitchen drawer corner while doing a stupid dance while kids napped: no capital letters, brief, and lots of me stopping and saying, “ow” if I move fingers on right hand too much or at all. am such dork. must stop the stupid kitchen dancing. or shut drawers all the way. or flail less. bruised swollen hand, but i’m sure it’ll be fine real soon. who needs a right hand anyway?
toad plague, part two:
we kept them and fed them and collected up to 84 toads. ethan-10yr came home from camp and i thought we’d release at a local water pond/lake place. mike thought he’d just dump em out in the flowerbed in the backyard. easier. faster.
(am taking a break to breathe deeply in and out.)
i did not agree with this idea, but it was already done by the time i knew of it. have since almost stepped on 84 frogs about a million times. they are not leaving. they really can’t. secure fence and all. they are everywhere. again. go figure.
mike did rescue a turtle, though, and that was very very very nice.
also released in back yard.
then mike left town, and left me with 84 toads and a turtle and boys underfoot. again.
the boys, i do not mind.
the toad herding every time a door opens in order to keep house toad-free, yeah pretty much i do.
i had toad pics. i even resized (successfully) with much help from volunteer technical support/nice person who knew what to do. so nice! but can’t figure out how to get resized pic into wordpress and ow. with the ow. was fine 10 min ago. now throbbing awful ow. hitting ‘publish’ button without pics and not typing anymore it makes it worse.
am such dork.
and clumsy.
which is usually ok. whatever. drawers dont really need all those pointy right angles. we dont really even need capital letters, turns out.
i really dont need 84 frogs.




4:23 pm
Nobody needs 84 frogs. And nobody needs an entire reptile farm growing in their back yard. I hope you are able to find another home for them before they start to multiply!
4:37 pm
geekwif, you’re right! had not EVEN thought of that. I want to go out there and tell them to all stay away from each other. NO TOUCHING. Keep it G- rated out there in the backyard, toadies.
Bleah.
1:31 pm
I was thinking the same thing.
Didn’t you mention that you spared 1 or 2 or 3 that were in your garage last year?
And now it’s 84+ all over the place?
Next year, it’s going to be Biblical plague proportions. You’ll find out what it was like in Egypt…
Your husband sounds like a great man, but this time, I have to say Mike did a bad thing.
Hope your hand feels better soon! ! Sounds really painful.
4:12 pm
y’all are right, of course. but the only thing nastier than the thought of 84 toads… is the thought of 84 toads having sex. As Caden-6yr likes to say, “that is disturbing.”