an unexpected pool guest

While the kids were swimming before dinner, Travis was messing around with the pool and looked in the skimmer. A frantic little water frog was swimming around in there! Travis scooped him out and the frog rested his head on Travis' fingers while he caught his breath. Who knows how long he'd been in there swimming. He was exhausted!! If it weren't for Travis, we would have found a dead frog in the skimmer some time later. (eewww!....so glad he was alive) There was some discussion about where he came from, where he should go, and it was purposed by Travis to release him at the Riparian Preserve. The kids wanted to keep him, of course, but thought that sounded like a cool alternative. We let him hang out in a water pitcher and rest up while we ate dinner then it was off to the Preserve. It was getting dark and the weather was actually cool enough to enjoy a little nature walk. Then a bunch of geese and ducks started stalking us, thinking we had food. It was funny at first, then got a little scary! Those geese were huge and had no fear of people. They were chasing after us! We finally released froggie (affectionately named by the kids) into a grassy area by the lake. We assured the kids that froggie would be happy and safe there. What a night!