It’s always nice to have your own pool, but you have to factor in the fencing around it to keep the neighbors’ prying eyes out, of course. Out on the beck deck today, I found that a watering can featured a new detail.
Now, I know, every time we go to use the grill, I have to remove the cover and then chase three green treefrogs (Dryophytes cinereus) out from the space underneath, because they find the cool(er) dark hollow under the cover a nice safe place to sleep during the day. This always results in a rodeo, since I don’t want them getting someplace where the heat will be detrimental, and that’s exactly the directions they go – and this keeps happening because they return to the grill underside each morning.
So this one is likely to use this spot for a while – at least, until it gets tired of seeing me checking on it.
We are partially to blame for this as well. The stick is in there, just like all of our watering cans, because the Carolina anoles can’t swim but still venture in sometimes, so we try to make sure they can get out if necessary, and the treefrog found this to be quite handy.
Earlier this year, I was trying to water some plants and the watering can kept getting clogged, a fairly typical occurrence when leaves have fallen within. I shook it, started pouring again, and it clogged again within a couple of seconds. On the second repeat of this, a Copes grey treefrog leapt out, having sheltered in the spout until I kept flooding the damn thing on him. It’s like that around here.