Number 4 - Crunchy Frog (updated)

A little one, yes. Not even sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose. Just a little frog, frozen to my pool deck yesterday morning.


And then when I got home from work and took the Dammit outside, there was another. Lori informs me that one has managed to move a whopping ten feet during the day. But the little one has entered a hibernatory (or dead) state right on my pool deck, where I found him yesterday morning.

I know that in my general state of 'All God's Creatures, Great and Small', that it's probably wrong of me to giggle with delight. But that hasn't stopped me. These are the same frogs that inhabit my patio umbrella all summer long, that keep me up all night with their croaking, that are covered in poisonous slime and coat my entire pool with their sticky, slimy black eggs.

Take that, nature.

*****UPDATE*****

Both frogs in question are dead, Jim. As is the third one, frozen mid-leap and stuck to the solar cover of the pool. I'll have to take on the unsavory task tonight of frog disposal, including likely removal of additional frogcicles from under the closed umbrella.

Raindrops keep falling on my head...

Yes, I know I'm mixing movies. Could be worse, though. Could be raining.

(everybody sing!)...and if the roof keeps leaking I'll have ceiling tiles on my HEAD! (loud and off-key, now!) But, I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining.

So I haven't actually been hit yet, but the ceiling tile three feet from my desk came crashing down in a soggy heap while I was on the phone with a client yesterday. It hasn't even rained today, but we're still dripping from the gaping hole due to yesterday's downpour. I'm tracing the water stains across the remaining tiles, and the water seems to be moving toward the giant fluorescent fixture above my desk. If it goes beyond that before they finally get someone to fix this round of leaks (because yes, there have been and still are others), I will, in all likelihood, be taking a tile to the head sometime in the first half of August.

In case I haven't mentioned it before, it rains a lot here. Almost daily during the summer months, meaning I don't bring the bike to work, the lawn needs mowing twice a week, and frogs lay copius amounts of eggs in my pool at night.

Generally speaking though, this week has been the nicest so far this summer. Not too hot, not overly humid, suprisingly, so I can bear being outside for more than 15 seconds at a crack.

However, it will get worse again soon, I'm sure of it. And that's what's worrying me.