Old Weird Ward
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Thursday, March 04, 2004
- - - - - Frogs and Toads - - - - -
I've been a city boy all my life. The idea of semi-rural living was a kind of a dream for most of my adulthood.
Let's define "semi-rural" before I go any farther. "Semi-rural" is at least 20 miles from the nearest city of more than 100,000 population. "Semi-rural" is outside the limits of the nearest "town" of 20,000 or less. "Semi-rural" is at least 1 mile from the nearest convenience store. "Semi-rural" is no sidewalks, no streetlights, narrow roads, and lots of trees, with houses on at least an acre of land.
Southeast Georgia, geologically speaking, is like Florida - lots of rain (compared to California), close to the water-table, and flatter than Kansas likes to brag about. Houses don't have basements here because the water table is about four feet down. The highest point in Camden County is, according to my neighbor, eighteen feet high.
I've already written of my encounter with the deer. Now let me tell you about the frog/toad/whateveritwas.
I'd left the garage door open while I was hauling some stuff out for trash day, mostly broken-down boxes (note: we're still finding stuff we didn't even know we had.) and also moving some stuff into the house, and other stuff up into the storage space above the garage. When I was done, I closed the door.
Next morning, after dropping the kids at school, I had occasion to enter the garage through the kitchen door. "Crunch/squish". A damned frog/toad whatever had got in there, and was now deader than a door nail. I scooped it up and tossed it out on the front lawn, where a vulture promptly swooped down for a little snack.
I'm still getting used to living in a semi-rural environment.
I'm sure glad I was wearing shoes....
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