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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Anyone know anything about frogs? I've got one acting strangely I'm trying to figure out. This morning I noticed it sitting on top of a step ladder on the patio--not moving. I wasn't sure if something was wrong with it or not, so I figured I'd check back later and see if it was still there. I just checked and it's still there. It looked dry and I thought maybe it was dead, but nope, still breathing. I tried tapping it, and it didn't move. I tried pouring water on it, and no response. Any idea why it's just sitting there like that?
Frogs, huh? No clue. Maybe it needs a kiss or something.
I had a freak-out moment earlier. Opened the door to go into the garage and there's a HUGH snake there, staring at me. It reared up. I screamed, and slammed the door, and got Dad to come attack it.
Zat better? :-)
But I did get a Precious! :-)
Snakes and frogs? YUCK!
Take a shovel to the both of 'em!
He might be waiting for nightfall or for a fly to go by.... maybe move him to a flower bed where there's some moisture.
It's not hopeful for him though, if you poked him and he didn't move.
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Well, I took him down to the stream and when I put him down, he hopped away like normal. So I guess he wasn't as dead as he looked! Still trying to figure out why he just sat there all day. Huh.
*shudder*
Just slam the shovel down, tip first, onto its head. Goes for frogs or snakes.
They're just nasty!
I do give them all a chance to get away first though. If they choose to stand their ground, I choose to make them part of it.
That's how I'd do it. Yuck! Give me furry critters any day, I can handle mice and rats, no problem.
Okey doke... say high to Pastor Lucky for me. [snif] :-)
Say... I took that POS wireless cam back today, and then stopped at Fry's on the way in. (Frys: WOW... that's the biggest Frys I've ever seen... even bigger than the one in Palo Alto. I was in consumer overload for about an hour before I got out of there. I could fill a couple of shopping carts in there without even trying.)
What I found out was that there are NO wireless webcams yet on the market that are compatible with any other webcam software but their own. All they do is capture video for their own built-in web server. In other words... nothing that will send individual images to another machine for upload to your website.
What I came up with was a 5-meter USB extension cable. The USB standard appears to be optimal at no more than about two meters. This cable has a little inline booster, like an ethernet repeater I suppose. It allows another five meters... which should let us mount a regular USB cam outside by running it out the slider and maybe mounting the cam high on the outside wall, to capture the whole scene.
There's a nifty cam they have that isn't too spendy but has a really good pic quality and a nifty *zoom* feature, that might be interesting.
Then I walked into the section for security cams...[ohgod ohgod ohgod] where you can buy those *really* cool dome-camera systems like they have in casinos and airports. [shudder] Really stinkin' cool. Remote control pan-tilt-zoom, where you could zoom right in on a rock on the beach if you wanted. [sigh]
Then there was the six-cell Maglite. SIX -count'em- SIX cells. I thought five cells was cool. Dang... Like I said... I couldn't filled a shopping cart or three.
LOL! There's a bunch of Pine (Western Fox) snakes here. They look and act like rattlers but they're not. They like to sun themselves in the garden and on the road, so I sometimes have encounters like that :)
Hey, you wouldn't take a shovel Kermit, would you? :)
...and I'm the same way. And so are most of the guys and half the girls around here, I daresay.
I don't mind mice--used to raise hamsters and gerbils. Rats creep me out, though, 'cause of the disease risk I guess, and also because when I was little my Dad told me a story about a big one my Grandpa had to kill in the barn once--big as a cat and mean, so my Grandpa had to stick a pitchfork in it.
OK, muchas gracias. Sounds like you got the extension cable to use with the old camera? So we can test it all out this weekend?
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