Frog and Spiders and Goats, Oh My!

Matthew photographs Coal and Buxton the goats last night.
Matthew photographs Coal and Buxton the goats last night.

Anyone who has ever lived in the country knows that it can be a little wild at times, and by wild I mean that the wildness of nature is always close.

When Matthew and Michelle were on their way to visit this weekend, I warned them that a handsome green frog had appeared in my toilet, and while I was photographing him, he hopped out of site, and that they shouldn’t be too startled by the appearance of said reptile. They did not happen to see the frog, but this morning they urgently summoned me into the guest room to deal with, “Something. It’s really big.” It was an impressively large wolf spider, which I captured using a mixing bowl.

Matthew, as I mentioned in my last entry, took a liking to our goats, who are, by any measure, very likable. This morning he asked me to take a picture of him with them, and while he didn’t say exactly why, I imagine it’s the same way my sister wanted a picture of herself in the pasture down by the pear tree because her friends in New Orleans just “didn’t get” what the country life was like.

I thought of all this tonight after seeing our little green frog in the bathtub. He hadn’t gone anywhere; he had just hidden while the house was abuzz with visitors, and came out tonight to keep us company and eat a few bugs. I’m thinking we should name him.

Our frog on my shower hose tonight; I'm thinking if he sticks around much longer, I'll need to name him.
Our frog on my shower hose tonight; I’m thinking if he sticks around much longer, I’ll need to name him.

3 Comments

  1. I vote for Batholomew the Bathroom Frog. Btw- a frog in the house is a good sign, because my nickname for the baby is Polliwog (or Paul E. Wog).

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