We Found a Frog!

We named him Tad, after the little blue frog in one of our favorite video games, Frogger.

Shawn found Tad out in one of the flower beds and brought him over to the front of the house so I could see him. After I oohed and aahed over how cute he was, we had to decide where to release him. I was for dropping Tad off in the front of the house, and Shawn wanted to take him around back and point him towards the neighbor's yard. Shawn was concerned that Tad would "want to come inside the house." Now, I don't know much about frogs, so I'm not sure why one would "want to" come inside our house. We don't have many things for frogs to do (except possibly playing Frogger as mentioned before, though I'm not sure that Tad would enjoy playing a game where a frog attempts to cross the street and gets flattened by oncoming traffic). I do happen to think our house is very nice, but it is probably not "frog nice" if you know what I mean.

In the end, we let Tad roam off into the wild blue yonder of the front yard. He was fairly unimpressed by us and even hung around for a few minutes so I could take this photo. By now, he's probably forgotten all about us and has gone back to trying to burrow into the basement through the flower beds.

-- Lisa

PS - Here's a photo of the front of our house (Tad was let go by the little tree in the bed to the right of the driveway):