I don’t know about you, but we have had more frogs this year than I can ever remember.
These are not the tiny tree frogs that make so much noise. These are bigger garden variety frogs and in various colors. I’m not sure if these frogs are akin to the chameleons that are also everywhere.
Last night we had three on our porch, relatively small ones, but we’ve had two (that we’ve seen) granddaddy of all frogs, big ones! One was white, sitting on the white arm of a porch chair, and the other one ended up in our bedroom jumping on the curtains not too long ago, to our chagrin. It was green. I managed to catch it in our bathroom and get it outside in a towel.
And no, I did not purposely let it in by holding open the door. No, I did not. What, and let out all the air conditioning!! It is 97 degrees here. Just because I moved some back porch furniture to the front porch, through our bedroom. (My youngest daughter opened and shut the doors for me.) (Won’t do that again.)
My sister had one jump on her out by their pool.
The funniest story (so long as it didn’t happen to me) was a gf’s d-i-l had one jump on her face in the middle of the night. She woke up yelling. Her husband was trying to get her back into bed, telling her it was only a dream. But when they turned on the light, there was the culprit on their wall. She took a shower, washed her hair, washed the wall, did her sheets…the night was practically over! At least ours didn’t get up as high as our bed.
The same friend had one in her bathroom.
This morning she called with another frog story, knowing I had been blamed for the one in our bedroom. Her College Girl phoned her early this morning. She said as she was driving to class this morning, her leg felt wet, then the other leg was wet.
“Guess what was in her car,” she said to me. Yep, it was a frog. I would have run off the road, likely!
Enough already!
Interestingly, frogs are good omens representing, among other things, wealth and babies, fertility and rain, clearing negativity from an environment, honoring tears that cleanse the soul, cleansing, and the illusion of being separated when really we are together already. Possible negative: settling someone else’s quarrel and getting into the line of fire…Take your pick!
When I was waiting for our youngest daughter, I dreamed I gave birth to a frog. It woke me up. My facilitator said it was a good dream, because “in Chinese frog has the same pronounce as baby doll and small baby.” And my youngest was small when I got her.
Do you have a frog story to share? Have you had frogs like we have?
Karin
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No particular stories to say, nor do we have many frogs, but I was very interested to find out frogs stand for so many things, fertility being one of them!
(and silly me I was thinking of the Seven Plagues all that time…)
Yes, I thought about mentioning that. I can only imagine what it must have been like to take a natural phenomena to the max!
There are several books on Native American fetishes that talk about the meaning that various animals held for Native Americans — what they felt Spirit was saying to them if they saw one (or saw one out of place, unexpectedly) or what they would use to facilitate their prayers, such as if they were going to hunt Buffalo, to see themselves centered.
Hmmmm….we’ve had a multitude of bunnies around the neighborhood this summer. WAYYYYY more than usual. I’ve been wondering what that’s all about.
Wanda
I have ceramic bunnies, does that count?
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