The kids get up awful early on weekday mornings. The son is up by 6:15 and the daughter by 6:30. They don’t need to be up that early really as we do not leave the house to take them to school until around 8:00. So, when I say they get up early I mean in comparison to how early they need to get up in order to be ready to leave by 8:00. Anyway, the wife and I (and the dogs) are not up much earlier than 6:00. I think we chose that time originally so we would have time to make some coffee and enjoy some quiet alone time on the couch before the kiddos got up. That plan is not working out this school year thus far. We still sit on the couch and we still enjoy coffee, it is just that we are neither alone nor is it quiet. We could get up earlier I suppose but I fear that that reaction would only be met with the kids upping their alarm clocks too. For now, this will have to do.
Since the kids get up so early, then tend to be ready (lunches packed, dressed and ready to go) with plenty of time to spare. The son hops on the laptop to kill his time and the daughter usually spends a little of her extra time out in the garage or back yard with the kittens that have made our garage their home. This morning she came bounding back in the house announcing that she had found a frog. Now we have plenty of frogs and toads in the yard. In fact I blogged about one such frog about 1 year ago. Also, I tend to find toads in the yard while I am mowing the lawn. They are frantically trying to get out of my way so I try to corral them toward the portion of the grass that has already been mowed. So, her announcement seemed a little over the top. She then went into the kitchen and grabbed a drinking glass and was heading back out side. I wondered what she was going to do with the glass but then realized that she intended to capture this frog. I was busy setting up my work computer so I could get logged on and work from home so the wife went out to inspect this frog. This is what she found…
This is not a camera trick. This very flat frog was about 3 foot off of the ground and hanging on to the side of our unfinished sun room. It was not that big and I am not sure what the daughter was planning on doing with it after capturing it in the glass but we did manage to get a few pictures in lieu of making it a specimen. By the time I went outside a few hours later he was no where to be seen.
The kids did go on a field trip to Koh Koh Mah today with their school. You can click on the link to their website for more details but they had a great time. The daughter brought home some sarsaparilla flavored rock candy. She had never heard of this flavor before and found it hard to pronounce so she just called it root beer. I did learn that the sarsaparilla plant was used as a treatment for syphilis up until 1910. You learn something new everyday. I remember having some sarsaparilla when we were on vacation one summer as a kid. I forget where we were but I think it was out west. That was over 30 years ago but I remember the flavor. I think I might even have resorted to calling it root beer as well.
I hit the treadmill for the first time in a few months on Monday and then again on Tuesday but have yet to get back on it since then. I fear my weight has picked back up due to inactivity and bad eating habits creeping back into my life. So I had better get off here and into bed since this rock candy is right next to me here on the dining room table calling my name. Hopefully the frog doesn’t scare me when I get up early and head out the treadmill tomorrow morning.
Jon
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