Sunday, June 14, 2015

The Knock on the Door

     A few days ago, I got a surprise starting with a knock... 
  Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock! Frantic knocking comes from my door. What could be wrong? I thought, "What is it?" I said, wondering if I had forgotten that we had to go somewhere.
  "Come down stairs quick!" My 11 year old brother said excitedly. "You need to see this!"
Is a bird on the porch? Did the bees arrive already? I began to try to think of what could be so exciting as I hurried down the stairs, Josiah ahead of me. Did we get another dog? 
  Josiah opened the back door and said, "I caught some frogs!"
  My heart sank. I stood there for a moment. What?! I ran down here to see another frog!
  Josiah has caught a lot of frogs and toads (and other creatures) in his life (I have lost count). So, this was normal for him to have caught a frog, but not normal to run up to my room and say, 'You need to see this!'. So, I decided to walk out on to the porch to see the newest frog. To my surprise not one, but two frogs greeted me. Then I saw them, the cause for all of this excitement. Frog eggs!!


"Notice anything?"
  Josiah's frogs, Mr. and Mrs. Leap had laid eggs last night.
"Why buy a frog when you can catch two?"
   Sad to say the white eggs will not make it (According to my brother). Even sadder, a few days later we found out that none of the eggs would ever hatch (Because they turned white).
   Now it has been a while since I last wrote and I have a couple good stories, I have decided it best to add another story to this one.

The aerophonic Tower Gardens

Another Tower(and a mystery plant)

These are our Tower Gardens on April 28 this year, and here they are on June 6 this year about two months later.

Very tall Cilantro
The Squash and Zucchini leaves are big 
It is amazing what God has made.
The Towers yesterday



Changing the water (once a month)
(1)   Next time I hope to write about the cat that chose us and who purrs almost constantly!
(2)   Or about my book that I am working on!
(3)   Or maybe about our pets!
(4)   Oh, maybe I should just write about the mystery animal we are going to get!
(5)    What was that plant by the Tower Garden?
    But, I'll save that for next time. Comment which one you think I should write about!