Frog Wars

So... the weather around here has been really wet lately, and although wet weather in Manitoba is conducive to lots of mosquitoes, here, it seems to be conducive to lots of frogs. We live in a quiet corner of the neighbourhood, a little distance away from the playground and the community centre... but in the back of our house is a wet, marshy area that is pretty bog-like, and which has been the scene of a broiling battle among the neighbourhood kids.
Team A is led by two brothers who never take off their bicycle helmets. The helmets are black and have red and yellow flames jumping up the sides of them... I think they have a bit of a superhero complex, because they catch the frogs with their bare hands. Team B is more sophisticated and is made up primarily of little girls, led by what seems to us to be the only white kid in the entire community. This team leader has an enormous butterfly net that he uses to capture his frogs. At last count, Team A was a couple of frogs behind, but then we saw the Team B captain being marched out behind our house to dump a huge spaghetti pot of frogs out into the bog. So, I'm not sure how that affected the tally. The kids are really into it, and are up to chatting about their adventures with anyone.
Other wildlife recently spotted in the area... bright yellow birds (don't know what they are) and an enormous ground hog, which scared the living daylights out of me when we were walking to Sobey's the other day. It looked like a miniature beaver scuttling along. Anyway, for your viewing pleasure... spoils of the frog wars.

George

Millie

Jeremiah