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[SamAndreas]

I thought I would tell you about yesterday and the bullfrogs.

Last night, yesterday, it was hilarious around here. The hundreds of bullfrogs who love under my house who mocked the thousands of quale who live in my yard.

Quale are funny birds. What happened is there was rain and snow, the grass grew in the yard tall. The grass grew taller than the quale, and when quale can't see other quale they stop and sound off that they are lost, they continue to cry out until other quale come and rescue them.

They are loud. Anyway the frogs under the house heard them crying out that they were lost quale in the field, "please help me."

Those smart assed frogs started to imitate the quale's cries for help. Pretty soon the frogs were drowning out the quale using the quale's song.

Bullfrogs do have a big strong singing voice. I barely survived I laughed so loud.

 

[faceman]

It's time to wake up this thread Sailorsaint. It's been sleeping too damned long.

There is a cat. There has actually been two cats, and nothing has been resolved about it. The Bobcat kitten who was there in January came and went. and now there is an American Forest Cat in her place. Forest cats are domestic cats who have reverted to the wild. Around here they are cats who have reverted to the wild several generations ago.

There have been Calico forest cats living in my barn for many cat generations. They belong there.

This cat is a very nice looking American forest cat, that she's a Calico means she's a female. Calico means female. She's amazing for just a tiny little kitten a few weeks old. When I see her out in the yard she looks like a great big super cat. But when I see her eating the food I've set out in food bowl I discover that she's not a giant cat like she looks in the field, she's just a small tiny (cute) Calico kitten.

So I feed her. She needs to grow up big and strong to live in my barn. Coyotes and wolves live here. Bears, lyons, and goats as well.

Goats are a big problem for small kittens. I take the side of the kittens and blame the goats. BTW- deer are goats.

Deer are nice, .but they are goats. If you have ever tasted deer, but have not ever tasted goat, they taste the same.

My nerd fact of the day. Calico means tri-colored not female. They are 99% female though since most of
a cats color is carried on the X chromosome. Calicos can be male if they carry the XXY which is extremely
rare. The same can happen in human males.

Klinefelter syndrome - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I thought I would tell you about yesterday and the bullfrogs.

Last night, yesterday, it was hilarious around here. The hundreds of bullfrogs who love under my house who mocked the thousands of quale who live in my yard.

Quale are funny birds. What happened is there was rain and snow, the grass grew in the yard tall. The grass grew taller than the quale, and when quale can't see other quale they stop and sound off that they are lost, they continue to cry out until other quale come and rescue them.

They are loud. Anyway the frogs under the house heard them crying out that they were lost quale in the field, "please help me."

Those smart assed frogs started to imitate the quale's cries for help. Pretty soon the frogs were drowning out the quale using the quale's song.

Bullfrogs do have a big strong singing voice. I barely survived I laughed so loud.

Just thinking the other day how I used to see frogs all of the time and now I can’t think of the last time I saw one out and about

 

[faceman]

Just thinking the other day how I used to see frogs all of the time and now I can’t think of the last time I saw one out and about

When Duck Dynasty was being aired, Frog legs were often on the Robertson's menu. Perhaps the popularity
of the show increased demand?

 

[SamAndreas]

When Duck Dynasty was being aired, Frog legs were often on the Robertson's menu. Perhaps the popularity
of the show increased demand?

I guess that show has been gone for a while now, no one around town has called me Phil for years.

Other than being called Phil around town I've never seen the show.

Frog legs are apparently a developed taste thing. I've had them, but I would rather not.

 

[SamAndreas]

Just thinking the other day how I used to see frogs all of the time and now I can’t think of the last time I saw one out and about

You probably would see them around ponds. We're high and dry here, the frogs live underground. There's water if one goes down underground deep enough. They take over gopher burrows, and also dig their own. Snakes are what would catch them underground and eat them, but the surface birds seem to ignore them.

Some of the frogs are green, but most of them are red. They tend to be very small as well.

The bull frogs are big, but the true frogs are small forest frogs. They invade houses and hang out in the bathrooms, mostly in the toilet.

I open the window, then reach into the water, grab them and then toss them out through the window.

 

[faceman]

Frog legs are apparently a developed taste thing. I've had them, but I would rather not.

I find them to be a delicacy.

 

[SamAndreas]

I find them to be a delicacy.

I found them to be kind of chewy. And I could taste swamp.

I would imagine they could be prepared to be quite fine. They can also be cooked into becoming something like shoe leather.

The one who prepared the ones I had was a real good cook, but not experienced with frogs legs.

 

[faceman]

I found them to be kind of chewy. And I could taste swamp.

I would imagine they could be prepared to be quite fine. They can also be cooked into becoming something like shoe leather.

The one who prepared the ones I had was a real good cook, but not experienced with frogs legs.

Yeah, they need to be marinated first. buttermilk is best imo. Buttermilk is also best with gator and oily fish
as well.

 

[Nisey55]

I thought I would tell you about yesterday and the bullfrogs.

Last night, yesterday, it was hilarious around here. The hundreds of bullfrogs who love under my house who mocked the thousands of quale who live in my yard.

Quale are funny birds. What happened is there was rain and snow, the grass grew in the yard tall. The grass grew taller than the quale, and when quale can't see other quale they stop and sound off that they are lost, they continue to cry out until other quale come and rescue them.

They are loud. Anyway the frogs under the house heard them crying out that they were lost quale in the field, "please help me."

Those smart assed frogs started to imitate the quale's cries for help. Pretty soon the frogs were drowning out the quale using the quale's song.

Bullfrogs do have a big strong singing voice. I barely survived I laughed so loud.

When we were first married we rented an old house complete with metal pipes. There was a tree frog living on the bathroom sink pipe under the house.
Every time you would brush your teeth, wash hands he would crank up and it sounded like he was in the pipe, real loud. You could hear it all over the house.
I found out how hard it is to laugh and brush your teeth at the same time.

 

[Consigliere]

Frog legs are apparently a developed taste thing.

It's what you eat when you are too poor and remote to get pig meat and chicken meat.

Like crawfish, alligator, and most other cajun "delicacies" that one drowns in salt and spice.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

My nerd fact of the day. Calico means tri-colored not female. They are 99% female though since most of
a cats color is carried on the X chromosome. Calicos can be male if they carry the XXY which is extremely
rare. The same can happen in human males.

Klinefelter syndrome - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

we adopted a couple kittens about 10 years ago. they were from the same litter. One was Calico and one was all Orange. The Calico was female and the Orange was male. before that, i did not know that almost all Calico were female and almost all Orange cats were male.

 

[SamAndreas]

we adopted a couple kittens about 10 years ago. they were from the same litter. One was Calico and one was all Orange. The Calico was female and the Orange was male. before that, i did not know that almost all Calico were female and almost all Orange cats were male.

As soon as I actually meet a male calico cat, I promise I will stop assuming, and saying, that all calico cats are female.

"The Moon is Always Female," I can show you Marge Piercy's book to prove that:

I bet no one here would have ever suspected that I would even know about Marge Piercy, and the Moon.

I wouldn't have known about her if I hadn't married a poet who knows her.

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I have news about the barn kitten, she ate lots of food here for about a week, and then moved on. Maybe she will come back.

 

[SamAndreas]

I've mentioned this kitty in this thread before, up until about a month ago she was living on my place. One of Beth Pratt's trail cams caught sight of her today.

So she's still alive, and still around. I would imagine that trail cam is within a 1/4 mile of the place.





I might get to see my yard kitty in my yard again.

 

[SamAndreas]

Now Beth Pratt reposts this:



And Michael Steinberg another person from not to far away posted this:



I guess I should have stayed up later last night. Looked out the window more.