Frog Report

He or She is about 1 and 1/2 inch long

This is one of my Tadpoles grown up, there is another one living in the bathing suit. I think it is Freddy the daddy of the tadpoles. I ran out of spring lettuce mix and steamed frozen spinach.. Now all the little frogs look like POP EYE... he he he....   Bob called me outside and said LOOK WHAT YOU DID.... there were half a dozen teeny frogs in the swimming pool. The rain barrel is almost empty, YAY....
TO THOSE OF YOU... who made comments about the tadpoles staying because I fed them. There is no way for them to LEAVE the barrel until they grow legs. They were not growing legs but were becoming cannibals because I found 2 of them eating 2 others. I figured out they had been in there for 3 months and it should have been 3 or 4 weeks. Next time I see eggs floating in the water I will be scooping them out. But then who will eat the mosquito larvae, we did not see a single mosquito all the time they were there.

That is when I started feeding them, and within 2 weeks of getting enough food they turned into frogs, but alas not one into a prince.

Freddy Junior...

I have a problem! I am STILL feeding Tadpoles, it cost me 3.78 a week to feed them. I want to stop but what can I do? they are just now turning into tiny frogs.. This is Freddy Jr. He is the size of an eraser on a pencil.... I did a couple of Lunapic to show you how cute he is.. Don't you just LOVE him?  would you buy spring mix for tadpoles?   I said to Bob, this is silly, I am not buying more food. When I came home from WM and went out to feed them, he said I KNEW YOU WOULD buy more lettuce.  They have been in the barrels since July 24th, I have been feeding them for weeks now. In the past they did not need food because they were gone within 3 weeks.
One of the tiny frogs leaped off the barrel to the ground and I nearly expired from JOY...

There are now FOUR tiny frogs, about a dozen with front legs only, another dozen with 4 legs but still have a tail.... Now that you know this, you can sleep better.....😎  If I start a Lettuce for Tadpoles Go Fund Me, will you donate?????

Who let the frogs out -The End

Sorry for the Quality, all my phone could do

Froggy went a courtin and he did ride in two prior posts... the tadpoles are soooo cute. 4 days from laying of the eggs.  There were strings of black eggs in the barrel on day one, day two they were floating black dots, day four they were swimming tadpoles..

I Overheard a tadpole say  "I want to be a tuna when I grow up"

Another replied " Tough! you're gonna be a frog, a Cuban Tree Frog in fact"

"You will be part Cuban and a Tad-polish..." another one said... HEH HEH HEH

Oaky Croaky! this is The End... until it is NOT!!!!

After watching the below "MOVIE" let me know  if you think I have a career in writing screen plays"
The golden award for Creativity? Bronze for accent?

Tadpole Update

It has been 2 months since Freddy and Mama frog had tadpoles in the rain barrel Prior Post here

Tadpoles are common in the barrel and usually they are hopping out of there with in 3 to 5 weeks as tiny frogs
They are still there. I started fretting a couple of weeks ago that they did not have enough food, I found 2 of them doing cannibal acts on another one. With research I found how to feed them.

Now I am cooking spring mix lettuce for them, This was the first day I threw the pieces in and they came and devoured it, so now each day I am cooking spring mix lettuce. They Love it. Can't use the cheap iceberg, no nutrition in it. they are growing like crazy.. The thing is Big Boy tries to get in the rain barrel to see why I am throwing food in it. They eat other things but I have the lettuce so why not. Have to wilt it and chop in tiny pieces, but I found they make the big pieces tiny over night.

look closely and tell me they are adorable. I think they are

Cooked lettuce, ready to dump in the barrel

Back In The Bucket Nature Friday

You last heard about our Cuban Tree Frogs in PRIOR POSTS July through November of last year, I spent 4 months feeding Tadpoles to keep them alive.
Freddy must be around, but I have not seen him, but Mama has taken up residence in the watering bucket that hangs on the side of our rain barrel.  

 She has no idea, but I have started my own little tadpole abortion clinic. Each time she lays strings of eggs, I am watering the bushes with them. NO MORE tadpoles means no more Frogs. Enough already. That said. She is cute, don't ya think?

Freddy is Back

One Frog, edit in Beta PicMonkey. The New PM is coming soon

I first met Freddy Frog of the Cuban Tree Frog tribe, about the first week of June, 2018.. He was busy making babies. Here he is in water and in his bucket... Please enlarge the below photo and tell me those are the cues ever little sucky feet... and how about those EYES....

The first gang of tadpoles were laid in May and within 4 weeks were tiny frogs.
The tadpoles now are 5 or 6 weeks and show no sign of growing legs. I checked with Google Girl and She said. they can take up to 16 weeks to turn in to frogs, depending on the type. Well Freddy is responsible for both sets.. so what does that mean?

If he wants more children he will have to find a new girlfriend, Mama leaped from the shovel right into Jakeosaurus mouth while I Screamed NO JAKE NO.... she had a proper burial.

if you like frogs, check out the ones I want NEXT...  HERE

He leaped from the bucket to hide in the leaves but it did him not one whit of good!

Dinner Bell Lizard Style

See Bobs arm in the above collage? he is dumping what he calls The Dinner Bell. He gets in the pool daily, several times most days and skims the leaves and debris which include numerous gnats and other bugs. He taps it on the deck to make it come out of the net. The tap of the net rings half a dozen lizards running. The sit and wait and when a bug is dumped they rush out and grab it. It is so much fun to watch. they know the sound, like the tadpoles no when I put Romaine Lettuce in the water of the rain barrel.

With Romaine off the shelves due to endangering our lives, I had to find something else. 

They love this ReptoMin… It floats on the water and each little piece will have tiny frogs nibbling on it. 2 and 3 at a time. 

So yes, we feed the lizards and frogs and tadpoles. Good news is??? Frog food cheaper than lettuce and Bob's lizard food is FREE.

Bob said to tell you, he has seen a lizard an inch long eat a bee, they grab what ever falls out no matter the size, them or the food. 

Froggy went a courtin... AGAIN

Bob Yelled in the back door. COME LOOK IN THE RAINBARREL... I took the camera, I knew what it might BE..

MAMA Frog was back and 87 million tadpoles..it has rained every day for a week.

Shades of Bobby Darin started playing in my head..

Well, how was I to know there was a party going on?

Bing bang, I saw the whole gang dancin' swimming on in my livin' room rug rain barrel (yeah)
Flip flop, they were doin' the bop, all the teens tadpoles had the dancin' bug
There was Lollipop with Peggy Sue
Good golly, Miss Molly was a even there too
A well a splish splash, I forgot about the bath
I went and put my dancing shoes on
I was a splishin' and a splashin', I was rollin' and a strollin'
I was a movin' and a groovin', I was a reelin' with the feelin'

Mama at the bottom of our watering pitcher.. that is how bob found her, he was about to water my wildflowers

I thought I had lost my Southern accent but after listening to these short videos. NOPE! did not
 Mama is now Peggy Sue.. isn't she adorable???

MOVIES WITH MY voice on them, they look strange but they work. Had problems with YouTube so uploaded from phone video.

Tadpole Groaner

Rain + Barrel = MadSnapper Snapping....
I  NOW know how difficult it is  to shoot Tadpoles in A rain barrel (camera not a gun).  We have a gazillion baby frogs on the way..... Goody, they EAT mosquitoes 

What kind of shoes do frogs wear?

Open toad!

Why are frogs so happy?

They eat whatever bugs them!

How does a frog feel when he has a broken leg?

Unhoppy.

Why did the frog read Sherlock Holmes?

He liked a good croak and dagger.  (my favorite)

What happened to the frog's car when his parking meter expired?

It got toad!!

AND DON'T YOU WISH I HAD BEEN ''TOAD'' BEFORE I DID THIS POST? Smile with me!

Location Location Location

In a prior post you met Liam Lizard, resident of my zebra striped bathing suit condo. Sunday, I noticed he was on the wall luring Lina Lizard into his Lair.. I decided to swap the polka dot condo suit and see if he would move into it. Above you will notice, the white straps of the suit, suited him just fine. It appeared it was Location! Location! Location! and not the stripes, he loved the dots.

As I grabbed the striped suit, I held it open to check for other Lizards and started to shriek at Bob who was in the pool, LOOK! LOOK AT THIS!   What to my wondering eyes had appeared????

NOT ONE BUT Two friends had moved into Liam's Condo turning it into a TIMESHARE!!!

Can you see him now???? I have played for two days with these two frogs who took up residence in the Zebra Stripe Timeshare....

I believe they are two of the tadpoles grown up... and Monday AM I found they are female and male because they were on the ledge of the window making whoopee and at 4 AM I had to stand guard to protect them from the Jakeosaurus dog that was hunting them... After the sun came up they are GONE, but will be back when it rains again. The two of them stayed inside the suit all day Sunday.

I got these photos by jiggling the suit gently to make them crawl up and out in the sunshine... are they adorable or what?

He or She was highly indignant that I the MadSnapper was causing earthquakes to shake their time share.

Still Searching for Autumn in Florida

 Inside my kitchen, a dead leaf on my pothos. I did not change the color, just used macro lens

 I found autumn colors next door to my almost ready to put out their legs tadpoles in the rain barrel

Q. What do goblins and ghosts drink when they're hot and thirsty on Halloween? A. Ghoul-aid!!!

Found these little cuties on the front desk at my favorite Rehab Facility.

Pollywog Paparazzi

Click to see how cute they are....

If you follow me each day, you will remember the Tadpole Groaner Post from Sept 26. I have been
watching annoying our rain barrel babies. It all started in August when there were a million little black eggs floating in the pool and in the rain barrel. Now 8 weeks later, Voila! Look what happened!

 I asked Bob, what is the difference between a Tadpole and a Pollywog? he said Ask Google.

The first answer to the question was my favorite.

A tadpole will produce a frog that croaks with an English accent. A polliwog will produce a frog that croaks with an American accent..........

 If you look closely you can see some of these have only front, or only rear legs, and a couple are itty bitty cute little frogs. These frogs will not get any larger than what is comfy on a dime.

 Sorry the lighting is so bad, but if I flood the barrel with light it scares them away, If i get to close it scares them way down deep in the bottom......soooo

 Got this from Wikipedia...
The name "tadpole" is from Middle English taddepol, made up of the elements tadde, "toad", and pol, "head" (modern English "poll"). Similarly, "polliwog" is from Middle English polwygle, made up of the same pol, "head" and wiglen, "to wiggle"

Tadpole or Pollywog, they are darn cute.  I choose Pollywog because it looks good with Paparazzi.

this last photo came out like this, right out of the camera, there are little tadpoles in it, you just cant see them.