Creatures in the dark 6.2.2012

I understand these are not the best photos but being an amateur photographer who still has a lot to learn, these are  probably the best frog photos I have currently.  Those little things move very quickly.

Anyway, I was sitting at my desk surfing the net this morning and having a little breakfast, as is typical of Saturday mornings for me when I thought about the other night and thought I would share the story with you.

The other night my girlfriend decided to go out into the garage for one last cigarette for the night.  It was raining but had calmed down considerably by this time.  First off, let me say that she is deathly afraid of frogs.  Back to the story....  She let the garage door up and to her surprise, 3 little frogs were at the door as if they were waiting to come inside LOL.   She screamed and let the door down.  I ran to see what the problem was and as she told me, we heard this sound.  It was a thump/thud kind of sound on the garage door.  I went back inside to retrieve the flashlight and headed out the front door to see what they were doing.  Once I shined the light on them, I could see one frog hanging onto the door and the other jumping to get onto the door.  I couldn't help but laugh.  It was the funniest, yet creepiest thing I had seen in a long time.

This photo of the frog on the siding was actually from another episode of "Attack Of The Frogs" but the concept is the same.

We have been dealing with frogs for years and they are driving us crazy.  We've had one in the garage, which our neighbor's teenage son was nice enough to remove but most of them hang around the garage door. We've had them in the flower bed, near the trash can and near the AC unit.  They can be quite annoying. We have tried so many things to get rid of them but we are limited as to what we can put down because we have a dog and our neighbors on either side have small children so we don't want to endanger the children or the dog.

Until this last rain, we thought we had been successful in getting rid of them.  Boy, were we wrong!

~Pamela Denise~