summer time

[darkoshi]

lalalalalalalala nevermind, don't need to write about that.

Little frogs all over Qiao's back yard. Big ones too; there were two on the back steps last night. Had to shoo them away last night before the dogs saw them. I'm surprised but glad that the dogs haven't been going after the little ones. I worry I might accidentally step on them as they are hard to see when they're not moving. They jump away and then I see them from the motion.

I found a nice plant with grape tomatoes growing in the yard. We didn't plant it. How could it have gotten there? I don't like raw tomatoes; when Qiao sometimes brings me a take-out meal that includes them, I give the tomatoes to the dogs as they like them. The plant is growing in the area where I bury the dog p**p. So that must be where it came from.

Dandelion trees... Weeds that look like dandelions from their leaves, but grow tall with a thick steam. I was watching one such plant grow tall at my house. It finally got even taller than me, and only then did little flowers start blooming at the top. There was one in Qiao's yard too, similar but different; also taller than me.

There's a sassafras sapling growing out back too. I tasted a couple of its leaves; they didn't taste much like root beer, but they were very mucilaginous. From what I read it is actually dangerous to eat, and so they don't use real sassafras as a flavoring any more.

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[lhexan]

There's a tiny swamp near where I live. Yesterday I discovered that small enough frogs can hop off water itself via surface tension. The frogs in question were roughly half an inch long.

I also discovered about a month ago, in the same location, that frogsong maintains consistent timing. The song I listened two had 3/3 timing. Most of the frogs croaked twice, then paused, then repeated; however, a few very loud (soloist?) frogs had notes spanning all three beats.

[darkoshi]

I can't usually distinguish individual frogs when they are singing here. But it sounds sort of like call & response. High pitch, low pitch. High pitch, low. I used to think each frog made both the high & low pitched sounds, til I realized those were probably 2 or more different sets of frogs.

I haven't seen them hopping off water; that sounds neat.