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I haven’t been shooting a lot, but I do have a handful of video clips to put together, that might wait until I have a couple more to flesh them out. In the meantime, an anecdote and recent exchange.<\/p>\n
I haven’t been shooting a lot, but I do have a handful of video clips to put together, that might wait until I have a couple more to flesh them out. In the meantime, an anecdote and recent exchange.<\/p>\n
The Girlfriend commented that there was a frog sounding off quite close by, she suspected inside<\/em> the garage. This isn’t farfetched in the slightest;<\/strong> since the lizards absolutely delight in running in there and disappearing every time the overhead door is open, we usually leave the door cracked a few centimeters now so we don’t trap any. But since the garage is a big space with lots of hiding spots, I didn’t bother attempting to find it.<\/p>\n Later on, I heard it directly, a barking call in midday that I have no idea what the purpose is, and soon zeroed in on one corner of the garage, naturally the junk corner filled with tools and building materials. The Girlfriend and I surveyed this area, and I said, “It could be anywhere in here – we probably wouldn’t find it unless we tore this spot apart. They like tucking themselves into nooks like this,” and saying so, I turned around a two-meter section of J-channel for siding. Sure enough, that’s exactly where the frog was hiding, up until I actually moved its bed, whereupon it leapt out onto my shoulder. A small rodeo ensued, culminating when I convinced it to stay on something long enough to carry it out to the azalea bush outside the door, what I considered a much better day and nighttime perch. But at least it wasn’t trapped in the garage trying to find its way out a window or whatever.<\/p>\n Two days later, however, we heard it again, and yes indeed, back on the same J-channel.<\/p>\n Next day, back again.<\/p>\n She picked it up immediately. “He’s back again?”<\/p>\n “Yup, same spot. Higher this time though – he’s moving on up.”<\/p>\n She didn’t miss her cue. “To the east side?”<\/p>\n “Mm hmm,” I confirmed, then a pregnant pause. “He finally got a piece of the fly…”<\/p>\n I am not ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t been shooting a lot, but I do have a handful of video clips to put together, that might wait until I have a couple more to flesh them out. In the meantime, an anecdote and recent exchange. The Girlfriend commented that there was a frog sounding off quite close by, she suspected inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[8663,6854,2505,8662],"class_list":["post-41588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","tag-beans-dont-burn-on-the-grill","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-i-lied-though-it-was-the-southwest-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41592,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41588\/revisions\/41592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"green](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SpotOGreen.jpg\")
We let it be, since it seemed to be finding this spot on its own, but by nightfall when we were taking the trash out, it was on the move and I shooed it out the door and off to the side.<\/p>\n![\"closeup](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ChannelGreen.jpg\")
I went back inside and said to The Girlfriend, “I was just out in the garage…” and left it hanging.<\/p>\n