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Over the many years we\u2019ve lived in Florida, we\u2019ve encountered a lot of wildlife in the suburban neighborhoods where we\u2019ve lived. Alligators in a lake we lived on, burrowing owls that had a nest in our backyard, a raccoon that once strolled into our kitchen to help himself to cat food, various types of birds.<\/p>\n
Before Hurricane Wilma, we found hordes of fire ants seeking refuge in the aluminum folds of our hurricane shutters. We\u2019ve had spiders, snakes, foxes, and the usual roaches.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years, we\u2019ve also had our share of frogs who appear in odd places in the house. We usually have managed to free them before the cats grab them.<\/p>\n
But about a month ago, Rob noticed a little frog living in one of our potted plants on the ledge between the kitchen and the dining room. The pot once held an orchid, too, but only the ivy and the moss it grows in have survived. We tried to free him by picking up the pot to move it outside, but he jumped away. We returned the pot to the ledge and he was back the next morning.<\/p>\n
We now leave a shallow container of water next to the plant, but the other morning, Rob found the frog \u2013 now named Carlos \u2013 in the water in our coffee pot. He has also been spotted on another area of the counter, near the cat food. There are plenty of insects that flit in and out of the house for him to catch, but I\u2019ve been leaving him bits of lettuce and I\u2019ve found it inside the little hole he has dug for himself in the moss.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s interesting about this frog is that he\u2019s a totem animal in this house. We have a lot of these metal depictions of frogs:<\/p>\n
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Frog has often been a messenger for us, a sign that something is on its way into our lives. Whether its appearance is positive or negative depends on the room where the frog is found and its condition. Is it healthy? Sick? Injured? Dead? Hopping around?<\/p>\n
Tonight, I placed another plant next to the pot where Carlos has been living and filled a shallow bowl with water so he could sit on the edge of it and drink. And I snapped a photo of him that\u2019s at the top of the post.Look closely to the lower right of the pic. You’ll see one of his eyes.<\/p>\n
This weekend when Megan comes home, we\u2019re going to try to free him.<\/p>\n
PS Rob freed Carlos several days before Megan got home. He hopped onto the climbing ivy on one of our palm trees in the backyard, where there are plenty of insects!<\/p>\n
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Over the many years we\u2019ve lived in Florida, we\u2019ve encountered a lot of wildlife in the suburban neighborhoods where we\u2019ve lived. Alligators in a lake we lived on, burrowing owls that had a nest in our backyard, a raccoon … Continue reading