WTF, Frogs?
09-23-2007, 03:07 PM
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I never though such a small creature could cause so much havoc on my household.
With the recent rains, after a very long dry spell, the frogs came out in force. In this case, tree frogs.
About 5 days ago 2 figured out a way into the back pool deck and one of them worked his way to make a home on the back porch. From 12-5 in the morning they would begin their noise. It was LOUD so loud it would shake you from your sleep. One of them sounded like my Choc. Lab dry heaving and has caused me to run from my bedroom half awake to let the confused dog out 2 nights in a row before I woke up enough to realize it was not the dog.
The other one sounded like a child screaming in pain.
So last night I had had it! Except one of them was really smart. Every time I even walked to the back slider it shut up and would wait for me to walk away, I have no clue how it knew but it did I swear it did. I had a rough idea where it was but could not see it.
I took my mag light out at 3:30 this morning and started searching. I found the first one he was out in the open and couple of swift shots from a broom handle took care of it.
The second one would hide. It took me an hour to find it. Once I spotted it and moved in, it took off, it climbed the wall, jumped on my leg then onto the dog, who freaked out. Then it jumped in the pool went to the bottom and stayed there looking up at me.
I took the pool pole and pressed it to the bottom thinking I was slick, its time for it to drown. Payback for 5 nights of no sleep. It was smarter than I thought. It climbed up inside the pole. Grrrrrrr!!
I looked down the pole with the mag light and there it was ready to wait me out about 1/2 way up inside the pole. I was getting frustrated and really pissed off. I was now going on 1.5 hours of this. It was 5 in the morning Pissed off and tired would be an understatement.
I first thought about some lighter fluid for the grill and a match but that was too complicated this early in the morning I needed somethig to end this quickly I was getting really tired of this standoff. So I grabbed the bottle of muriatic acid next to the pool and poured it down the pole. I am not proud of being so brutal on the little sucker but only one of us was leaving this meeting.
I am so looking forward to a quiet night tonight. Especially since I have been up since 3:30 this morning.
Since I was wide awake in the quiet house at 5 and knew the rest of the gang was a good 2 hours from waking, I did a whole bunch of laps on the Ring with GT4.
With the recent rains, after a very long dry spell, the frogs came out in force. In this case, tree frogs.
About 5 days ago 2 figured out a way into the back pool deck and one of them worked his way to make a home on the back porch. From 12-5 in the morning they would begin their noise. It was LOUD so loud it would shake you from your sleep. One of them sounded like my Choc. Lab dry heaving and has caused me to run from my bedroom half awake to let the confused dog out 2 nights in a row before I woke up enough to realize it was not the dog.
The other one sounded like a child screaming in pain.
So last night I had had it! Except one of them was really smart. Every time I even walked to the back slider it shut up and would wait for me to walk away, I have no clue how it knew but it did I swear it did. I had a rough idea where it was but could not see it.
I took my mag light out at 3:30 this morning and started searching. I found the first one he was out in the open and couple of swift shots from a broom handle took care of it.
The second one would hide. It took me an hour to find it. Once I spotted it and moved in, it took off, it climbed the wall, jumped on my leg then onto the dog, who freaked out. Then it jumped in the pool went to the bottom and stayed there looking up at me.
I took the pool pole and pressed it to the bottom thinking I was slick, its time for it to drown. Payback for 5 nights of no sleep. It was smarter than I thought. It climbed up inside the pole. Grrrrrrr!!
I looked down the pole with the mag light and there it was ready to wait me out about 1/2 way up inside the pole. I was getting frustrated and really pissed off. I was now going on 1.5 hours of this. It was 5 in the morning Pissed off and tired would be an understatement.
I first thought about some lighter fluid for the grill and a match but that was too complicated this early in the morning I needed somethig to end this quickly I was getting really tired of this standoff. So I grabbed the bottle of muriatic acid next to the pool and poured it down the pole. I am not proud of being so brutal on the little sucker but only one of us was leaving this meeting.
I am so looking forward to a quiet night tonight. Especially since I have been up since 3:30 this morning.
Since I was wide awake in the quiet house at 5 and knew the rest of the gang was a good 2 hours from waking, I did a whole bunch of laps on the Ring with GT4.
09-24-2007, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Jims5543' post='883287' date='Sep 23 2007, 04:07 PM
I am so looking forward to a quiet night tonight. Especially since I have been up since 3:30 this morning.
Sad thing is, there are probably other frogs in the area, and they'll move into the vacated territory, and they'll be wanting revenge!
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