7-3-09...ADVENTURE WITH A BAG OF POTTING SOIL
On Wednesday of this week I decided I needed to re pot some of my houseplants. I had a bag of potting soil in the carport so I brought it in. I was going to do it in the bathtub because it was so hot outside. First thing I noticed was the bag was wide open and I usually close them so it wont dry out. Then I noticed it was wet. I thought well darn how did this get wet in the carport. Still don't know how it happened but I think Don messed with it. He denies it but I don't believe him.
The first plant is in a huge pot and very heavy but I carried it to the tub. As I started dipping the soil out of the bag I noticed two dry clumps on the top. I scooted on to the side and put the other one in the trash and wondered why two little dry clumps in the very wet potting soil. Didn't think any more about it. This plant just needed to be topped off so I dipped the soil in and tamped it down with the cup. The other two I put in bigger pots and replaced them in my flower room but I left the big one along with the bag in the tub to take out later.
I went about my day and several times I went in the bathroom and noticed a clump of dirt in the pot like something had disturbed it so I would tamp it back down with the dipping cup. Several times this happened but I didn't think much about it only to wonder Why?
That night I went to the bathroom to take my shower and to carry the plant and bag of soil out. I started to reach in to get the plant and something moved slightly on the side of the tub. It startled me but when I looked closer I was staring in to the eyes of a little frog about the size of a quarter. O M G O M G!!!! I screamed to the top of my lungs and took off running. As I ran I was hollering, "GET IT GET IT"!!! Don just looked at me and said, "Be quiet what are you doing"? "Ththeresse a fffroog in there GET IT". He just looked at me and said "Well You Get It". Now he knows how terrified I am of frogs. I ran by him and kicked his foot as I went saying, "GET UP RIGHT NOW AND GET THAT FROG OR I'M LEAVING THIS HOUSE AND I WILL NOT COME BACK TILL I KNOW IT IS GONE"!
He sauntered on in there and picked it up and started for the door and dropped the thing and here it come hopping back my way. The race was on again. "GET THAT DURN THING DON HURRY UP"! Now guys there is no hurry up for Don. He has one gear and it is low and stripped out. He caught it again and it peed in his hand. He was madder n' a hornet and growling like a gorilla. Looked like one to, by the way. I watched him till I knew he had put the thing outside then I made him look in the bathroom for others, inspect the pot and the bag. I took the plant to the plant room and put the bag back in the carport. And sneaked back in the bathroom and inspected the premises very carefully again. I scrubbed the tub and decided to wait till morning for my shower. It was over (I thought) but I was still trembling. Now guys before you start making fun of me for my fear let me tell you it is very real. I have fainted before because a frog was put on me. Don't know the reason but it is a fact. The frog had to of been in the bag of potting soil. I dipped it in the plant, hence the disturbed soil all day. Somehow it escaped from my tamping it down and jumped out on the tub. That was the dry clump of soil.
But wait now**, Do you remember that clump of dry soil I put in the trash? YEP! Another frog but that is another story. It happened late in the night when I got up to go to the bathroom. I'll tell it later. Right now I'm trembling again just thinking about it.
Just don't ever put a frog on me or my Mama will reach down from Heaven and thump you on the head. And that's a fact!!! YEP!
