{"id":42022,"date":"2026-07-04T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=42022"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:43:27","slug":"need-a-bigger-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/07\/need-a-bigger-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a bigger fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to have your own pool, but you have to factor in the fencing around it to keep the neighbors&#8217; prying eyes out, of course. Out on the beck deck today, I found that a watering can featured a new detail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HotTuibbing.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus ensconced within watering can for day\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42023\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Now, I know, every time we go to use the grill, I have to remove the cover and then chase three green treefrogs (<em>Dryophytes cinereus<\/em>) 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&#8217;t want them getting someplace where the heat will be detrimental, and that&#8217;s exactly the directions they go &#8211; and this keeps happening because they return to the grill underside each morning.<\/p>\n<p>So this one is likely to use this spot for a while &#8211; at least, until it gets tired of seeing me checking on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NotSecludedEnough.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus peering out from watering can on deck\" width=\"750\" height=\"572\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42027\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s like that around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to have your own pool, but you have to factor in the fencing around it to keep the neighbors&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[8770,6854,2505,8771,8769],"class_list":["post-42022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-daytime-safe-spot","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-no-we-were-here-first","tag-watering-can"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42022","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=42022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42029,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42022\/revisions\/42029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}