Word of the Day

"re·sil·ience (ri-zil'yns)
noun. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy."

Now to illustrate the resilience of frogs, I would like to share this personal story. Several years ago, I had a leopard frog that shared living quarters with two firebelly toads and two newts. One day my husband found the leopard frog completely lifeless in the tank. To spare me from this sad turn of events, he removed the limp-bodied frog and placed him in a ziploc bag and placed it in the garbage can in our garage.

Later that day, and it was a hot one, my husband carried some trash out to the can and, low and behold, there was the frog moving in the baggie! He quickly retrieved the poor frog from the garbage and returned him to his aquarium home where he lived for several more years, none the worse for wear! He was known as Baggie from that day forward.

Moral of the story: Let sleeping frogs lie.

It's a new day...

It is my pleasure to announce the arrival of my newest froggy friend. I saw him for the first time today, sitting on the edge of my little pond. There he is, just to the left of the red heart.

The pond had been void of life since last year. I had allowed an overabundance of flora to take over, forcing the previous inhabitants out. With a lot of hard work, I removed the root bound plants, leaving only two water lilies. The days passed with no sign of frogs, but the water lilies are doing really well and, with some luck they will bloom again.

Then today I noticed the tiniest brown frog, no bigger than my thumb, sitting on the edge of my pond. I'll be watching with much curiosity.