{"id":9913,"date":"2015-10-15T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:38","slug":"froggy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/froggy-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Froggy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tree<\/a>My, but it has been froggy weather lately.\u00a0 That may have something to do with the rain we’ve had all week; lots of rain, consistent puddles, tadpoles = frogs.\u00a0 Although I think most of those I’ve seen are tree frogs.\u00a0 I’m sure the ones I’ve heard<\/em> are tree frogs: their trilling is pretty distinctive.\u00a0 I don’t know what conditions are favored for these critters to breed.<\/p>\n

Kathy caught a young bullfrog the other evening and tried to eat it.\u00a0 Kathy is a dog; don’t get too freaked out by that statement.\u00a0 Marie stopped her because she knows some frogs and toads are poisonous.\u00a0 I don’t think we have those here, but it could give her an upset stomach and cause her to puke up frog bits in our house.\u00a0 Yech!\u00a0 I disposed of the dead frog.<\/p>\n

Here a Frog, There a Frog<\/h2>\n

A while back Marie and I made a trip into town.\u00a0 When we got there Marie noticed that a tree frog and made the trip with us by snugging into the passenger side mirror housing; in the small gap between mirror and housing.\u00a0 It was just sitting there looking at her.\u00a0 I can only imagine what it was thinking after that ride!\u00a0 I hope it likes it’s new home, for it was gone when we came back out to head for home.\u00a0 But that was just the first of many!\u00a0 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My, but it has been froggy weather lately.  That may have something to do with the rain we’ve had all week; lots of rain, consistent puddles, tadpoles = frogs.  Although I think most of those I’ve seen are tree frogs.  I’m sure the ones I’ve heard are tree frogs: their trilling is pretty distinctive.  I … Continue reading “Froggy Weather”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20119,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/20119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}