Yesterday I caught a really, really big bullfrog in the waterhole! 
I mean, he was a whopper! I had been patiently sitting by the waterhole trying to catch a frog in my net.. preferably a big frog. I even had my 5 gallon bucket with me to put them in! Two littler ones were caught (and jumped out of the 5 gallon bucket…) before I saw my prize hiding under the pipes in the water, right up against the bank.
So I slowly dipped my net in the water, which was already extended as far as it could reach, just to ensure that I could get it, slowly advanced my net underneath this big froggy, then suddenly pulled it up out of the water from underneath of him, and it pinned him to the bank, so he would jump into my net! It worked!
He has got to be the biggest frog I have ever caught. The second picture is me trying to do a hand comparison to his size ~ and he was as big as my hand! 
He jumped out of the bucket twice, and he had a mighty powerful jump on him! I really hated to have to let him go after I spend all that time trying to catch him, but oh well. Maybe by the next time I catch him he'll be bigger! (That's hard to imagine 
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Danny (my rooster) now has a beautiful blue cast on his leg…
Because he somehow managed to rip out his spur, and don't ask me how! I have no idea how he managed to do such a thing! I picked him up last night when we were putting the animals away, so I could put him in his cage for the night, and Levi noticed he was dripping blood from his foot. I simply thought he cut his toe or some such a thing, but Levi saw that his spur was completely (I mean, completely..) gone and there was a gaping hole where it should have been!
We packed cayenne pepper in and around the wound to stop the bleeding (and it did), then wrapped a paper towel around that, then Mom wrapped gauze and the sticky blue gauze around that to keep everything in. It hasn't bled anymore, so hopefully it will heal nicely… but I'm still very curious as to how he did it… and where the spur is!
The cast doesn't seem to bother Danny (neither does the absense of his spur, for that matter), and he thinks he's got something special with that pretty blue gauze wrapped around his leg!! 
#1 by christine on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 1:24 PM
By the way, didn't the cayenne pepper sting the rooster? How ever did you hold the poor fellow still long enough!
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#2 by Sister F on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 2:27 PM
Haha, Danny looks like he's modeling that cast! He must think he's something special!
We used to get toads stuck in our window wells, and we'd have to catch them and let them out so they didn't die down there. It sure wasn't easy!
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#3 by michelle on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 4:58 PM
Nice bullfrog! What I want to know is how in the world that silly rooster managed that one? Poor guy.
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#4 by BeccyW on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 11:05 PM
Oh, poor thing. At least he still seems happy enough. Is he limping?
My duck used to stand on sharp sticks and put holes in her foot, but never anything quite that drastic!
God bless. =]
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#5 by Jessica on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 12:59 PM
What a fine looking frog!
Oh, shame poor Danny! I hope he heals well!
In Christ
~Jess
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#6 by Lily on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 9:33 PM
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#7 by Pauline on Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 2:41 PM
Oh, poor Danny. I have never heard of putting cayenne pepper in a wound to stop the bleeding, another of your wise old country remedies, Lacey. I do find these fascinating, t hank you for sharing them. It must have really stung, although Danny does seem quite happy.
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