Oh YES - I forgot about the Frogs!!

So anyway - The Spouse and I have recently put the Great Financial Disaster of 2006 behind us. Now, in order to get through same, we of course Prioritized Our Spending, which meant catching up on the bills, paying for Spawns' medicines, eating regularly, etc. etc.

Which placed the Pool fairly low on the aforementioned Priorities List....

Which therefore allowed the aforemention Pool to become the Great Amphibian Resort and Wildlife Refuge.

Basically, the Pool was a dark green, healthy and vibrant POND, home to several varieties of frogs and toads, and fished in by falcons and herons.

Sounds idyllic, doesn't it???

Keep thinking that while imagining what a backyard FILLED TO THE BRIM with happy, breeding frogs and toads SOUNDS like...at 2 in the MORNING, EVERY 2 in the Morning.

So, the Spouse, having been Woken Up Once Too Often, anounces that the Frogs Must Die and he finally has the Money To Make It Happen.

So, later that same Saturday morning, he goes off to buy Enough Chlorine and Silver Oxide To Turn The Gulf of Mexico Into An Olympic Pool.....

Now, before YT goes ANY further, it MUST be said that the Spawn and i TRIED to rescue the frogs....really....but they apparently didn't understand that the POINT of all our frantic gesturing and grabbing was to SAVE THEIR FROGGY AND TOADY LITTLE LIVES....

Read on...

So, The Spouse comes home, replaces the filter, dumps in the Chlorine and silver oxide, in the deep end. Well NOW the Amphibian Brain Trust gets the idea and they start POURING out of the shallow end....except for the half dozen that were apaprently RIGHT UNDER where the Spouse was pouring chemicals....not a pretty sight...pale, bloated, dead blobs.....

but wait, there's More!

The next morning was Father's Day...and we awoke to the Lovely Sight and Smell of well over a hundred Frog/Toad CORPSES, floating on the surface of the now pale blue Pool...it looked like someone had placed sheets of bubble wrap over the thing...

As it was Father's Day, who was charged with disposing of the bodies?

Me. *I* got to COLLECT the dead out of the pool (eeew); place the dead in a large couple of buckets (EW), transport them to the closest dump (EW EW EW) and then actually dump them OUT (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW) and then ride home....

Bleached my SELF after that...

So, the pool is swimmable and the Herons hate us.

Smooches,
Alysoun

I Am Not Dead

I have been busy:

1) Fabio did not win Crown, but Thorstenn and Zephyrine DID, so I still get to Have Much Big Fun Torturing Shiny Hats!

2) The rattlesnake in the garage was safely removed.

3) The Great Remodeling of 2007 has now received its financing.

4) Despite my Obvious Wonderfulness, free linen has NOT been shipped to my house.

5) I tested out as; Indiana Jones and LawfulGood. How on EARTH that happened is officially Anyone's Guess.

6) The Oldest Child is in Martial Arts having the Time of His Life and it has helped his attitude tremendously.

7) The Youngest Child is visiting the Grandparents, which will NOT help his attitude, but *is* no doubt Much Fun for HIM.

More later, I PROMISE.

hugs,
Alysoun