Jim's Frog Blog

I was working in the yard this afternoon over where the tiger salamander was discovered.  I turned toward my wheelbarrow and felt something ...

Remember the story about the goldfish mating ( here )?  Thought I would report that I still haven't seen any little goldfish.  Not say...

Are you sitting in front of your computer all smug and aglow because you know what kind of creature we discovered in our yard on Thursday?  ...

It's not a wonder it takes me so long to get things done.  Just a couple of days ago I went out to adjust the door to the skimmer.  It w...

It's a rainy day at Red Tail Ridge.  About time me thinks, I've never lived anywhere that has such an often prediction of rain and s...

My favorite time of year has been and for the rest of my days will be, spring.  Here is why: Blossoms from our pear tree. These wil...

Last year we planted lily pads (click here to go there).  I'll be darned if those pads aren't growing and will probably reach the s...

Yesterday the female and male nearest the top of this picture were mating.  Today it's the same male and the white/orange female cen...

It can't be denied!  Spring is to what I'm referring.  The fish in the pond have come out of hiding and one pair is obviously doing ...

Not all birds like all bird seed.  Ya just can't make all the birds happy all the time.  What the picky eaters do is shovel aside the ...

When I was knee high to a grasshopper my dad used to say, "March winds and April showers."  Here it is 50 to 60 years later and it...

Spring is my favorite time of year. It's early for it to be spring but it's got to happen sometime.  The calendar still shows it t...

We're not talking about some French guy here, we're referring to the amphibian kinda creature that hops and stays wet... versus the ...

Y'all are probably tired of hearing about my spitter's and the ups and downs of having spitter's as pets.  I feel for you and do...

After receiving the "second opinion" noted in the previous post we thought long and hard about what our next step should be in thi...

This is the email response I got from Hector's creators .  I guess it is good that it was quick and painless... for Hector that is... ...

Like the little egg head named Humpty Dumpty, Hector also is in need of being put back together.  I'm thinking it will take more than al...

I suppose a rational person would just shut down the pond during the winter versus go through all the trials and tribulations necessary to k...

I had not seen a gourd trellis until late spring, 2010.  Yep, just last year.  How could I live so long on God's green earth and not see...