Meet Giuseppe, or as my children call him, "Mr. Gee Gee."
He wades in my children's kiddie pool, and when we do decide to play in the pool, Mr. Gee decides to play dead, or as I recently read, "fools the enemy by puffing themselves up with air to make it look too big to be swallowed (source)." I have been trying to find out what type of frog Mr. Gee is, a tomato frog, I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
When we lived in California, we had raccoon families that would raid our garbage cans, well, all of the neighborhood garbage cans. Upon appearance, I use to think raccoons were cute, passive, and adorable. No. Raccoons are the devil's spawn.
I've grown accustomed to seeing frogs, toads, squirrels, cardinals, and large insects in our Georgia backyard. We had a hare that loved to eat out of compost pile, but haven't seen him during these humid Summer months. We have small geckos that will sneak through the window panes, and get into the house. The geckos are harmless though, and come to find out, they eat all the bugs. Win-win.
I'm not a fan of the red ants though. They are feisty and vicious, and have attacked my kids on more than one occasion, and we have itchy sores to prove it. Don't get me started about the flying cockroaches. Ack.
We've almost been here for one year, and we still have so much to see.
