There's A Frog In My Hair!

I swear, I'm never going outside without protection again.
As most of you know, I live in central-ish Texas where the weather is always changing. One day hot the next cold..... make that changing from nearly moment to moment... today, it was a balmy 71 degrees, just perfect of working in the yard... a slight cloudy day but I can work with that....... but I'm babbling.
So I was outside raking leaves, minding my own business when suddenly something plopped onto my head. At this point I'm thinking it's a small branch that's come loose from my red oak and landed on my head.
Did I mention that I don't like surprises.
I reach up to brush it away and my hand connects with something slightly moist, wiggly and it was soft. Not a branchy, hard, rough feeling at all.  Of course I panicked went into survivor mode and carefully brush off the offending critter (NOT). Let's just say it was not a pretty picture. Leaves, my rake, gloves and one tennis shoe went in a counter clockwise directional pattern, the frog landed safely several feet from me (unharmed, I might add) and I wound up bottom first on the ground.  Can you say "upset" cause I really was.
Did I mention that I don't like things that flutter, fly, leap, hop, crawl, creep, slither, limp, wiggle, etc.
I would have posted about the incident right after it happened but I was too traumatized to do anything but have a stiff glass of iced tea and downed a couple of aspirin and a Tea cake to soothe my nerves.
I thought frogs hibernated during the winter. I guess he didn't get the memo.
Note to self....... New plan when raking leaves..... suit up in my hunting gear..... loaded for bear!

I pulled this photo out of the archives to remind myself how to dress when going out into my very dangerous, critter filled yard. I think I need a check list, too......
boots-check
gloves-check
long sleeved shirt-check
pants that can be tucked into boots-check
protective head gear-check
goggles-check
 and then there's the all important fire arm with plenty ammo-check.
I'll be ready next time..... I hope.

Safe Distance

As some of you know, I don't "do" animals well........ okay, I'm afraid of them ..... have a healthy respect for them....... so I snapped this photo from the safety of the truck......  mama cow wasn't very happy but didn't charge me for trespassing......  LOL

I found this jawbone with teeth attached and just had to snap a photo of it..... the science teacher is still in place..... my cousins told me that I would one day walk into a tree because I rarely look where I'm going but I told them they there are loads of wonderful things just waiting to be discovered if you're willing to look for them.

Science & Kids

In my profile I mentioned that I'm a recently retired teacher. What I didn't mention is that I taught science for many, many years. Anyway another teacher asked me about some experiments and that jogged my memory about a couple of websites that just might get you blogger with children who are struggling with the subject. I found these sites in the last few years of teaching a life saver. www.stevesplanglescience.com www.looseinthelab.com Both of these sites have info about workshops for parents, teachers and student.