Walk The Frog

used with the artist permission
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The above is another piece of artwork that I just had to get a print of.  I know, my taste run a bit on the unusual side.  But look at that little froggie!  He is so cute.  I love this artist work.

I try to drink decaffenated stuff but every so often I got to have the "leaded" so I went through a KFC drive thru to get some ice tea.  When I pulled in my driveway my neighbor came running out of his house to meet me.  Freaked me out a little.  We get along ok, but we are not the chummy neighbor types.

Seem J wanted to do some yard work and his chain saw wasn't working.  He wanted to cut down this small tree at our driveways and wanted to know if my dad had a chain saw.  I was so thrilled at this I could have wet my pants!  Really.  There is a fence between our houses and just on his side of the line a tree had been growing ever since I moved in.  You know the type, a little seed takes hold and most of us yank it up, mow it down before it turns into a tree.  (He also let one of these grow right up against the front of his house)

I grab a phone and call dad.  He comes a running. He thinks that tree is in the wrong place, looks bad, and is out of control where it is.  Before I know it, he and J have that tree and the one in front of J's house down.  While J is hauling the branches away I go tell dad thanks.  He said "I am happy to get that tree down."  J offers my dad some money but he won't take it because he (my dad) is as thrilled as I am to see that tree gone.  It took less than 30 min to get both trees down so you know they weren't really big. Big enough though.

So I could do another happy dance!  Don't get me wrong,  I love trees, and would love to have some more shade trees but these trees were growing in all the wrong places and if that one had been on my property I would have yanked it up by the roots years ago.