Family Reunion - Frog Races

Down the shore a ways is a bit of weedy, muddy shoreline that we call "Frog City".  The amphibian citizens of same are numerous and easy to capture.  Here the unofficial "Mayor" of Frog City confers with a constituent.

Having rounded up a considerable batch of frogs we naturally had a frog race.  This is more difficult that you would imagine.  You really can't put numbers on them and they mostly all look like the same frog.  With this problem figured out we put them into brackets and set them up to jump.

"Ready, set.....Jump!".  Uh...any time now guys.  Who figured that frogs would just sit there when released into a patch of lawn marked off by a circle...

The reluctant frog situation was solved when the resident dog wandered right through the arena.  This got them hopping forthwith, and calling the dog to run through the middle of things became SOP for the remainder of the races.   Not surprisingly the three year old who was most into all matters froggy ended up winning.

No turtle races this year.  The only one we caught was this miniature snapping turtle. He enjoyed our company sufficiently that he was caught and released several times.