Posted on 04/15/2021 6:09:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I wish I had more to say about this phenomenon but I really don't.
I was driving home from work on this raining spring night and probably ran over a hundred frogs.
I really didn't want to. I like frogs. But when it rains in Spring, they just come out into the roads in huge numbers.
Why is that? Why do they come out onto the roads just to get run over?
Why can't they just stay in their ponds with their lilly pads?
The frogs didn’t think you were going to work late so they waited to come out — only to get run over.
I like frog legs.
A chicken told them it was ok....
“Seems it never rains in Southern California
Seems I’ve often heard that kind of Frog before
It never rains in California
The Frogs, they try to warn ya,
It pours,
Man, it pours!”
Thus the expression: Slicker Than Driving Over Squished Frogs On The Road.
Yeah...I was just gonna say I hope you didn’t waste those frog legs????
Earthworms, too. Mass suicide following a good rain.
Why can’t you build little fences along the highways, like they have to keep the deer off the roads?
The huge cane toads in south Florida are the worst.
Probably about 30 years ago while I was driving home here in Maryland, there were hundreds of frogs in my neighborhood.
Strange day.
Should have collected them. Frog legs with lemon butter. Heaven.
Or at least put up signs, “Frog Crossing”, like they have “Deer Crossing” signs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWuFGMq3ZA
I remember dissecting a frog in 7th grade science class.
I went for a bike ride the other day after a rainy night and had copious worms scattered on my bike frame when I started to put it back in the car.
Gross. No frogs, fortunately.
The rain in Spring
Falls mainly on the thing
That isn’t a toad
But squats on the road
VROOOOOOM!
My son (when he was 10) used to frog gig with me and we
d fry up a bunch of legs...My daughters were 8 and 6 at the time and they would say they were sad we killed those poor little frogs...
We told the girls we didn’t kill ‘em...We only took one leg off each frog and turned them loose...
We said they could only swim in a circle and made it easier to gig them the next time we went...
Quoting a Far Side cartoon featuring a frog singing a “blues” song:
“My baby left my lily pad,
My legs were both deep-fried.
I eat flies all day, and when I’m gone,
They’ll put me in formaldehyde!
Oh, I got the greens!
I got the greens real bad”!
😆
I’m thinking of a time we had a bunch of bees outside my apartment.
I was told before the apartment was built the bees used to nest there. They leave markers and come back. Prob goes on for hundreds of years if not more.
Maybe frogs leave markers?
I can recall several times riding in a car across the southern Idaho desert at night and hearing a thump about every thirty seconds. Jackrabbits. We don’t understand the ways of nature. But, as it says in Desiderata, “. . . whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
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