I Didn't Need To See That

This weekend was Tim's parent's church's rummage sale. Tim's parents are part of a great church in Briar Cliff Manor. It's this beautiful stone Lutheran church that was built in the 1890's with gorgeous Tiffany stain glass windows but what makes it truly beautiful are the amazing people that are part of the congregation, choir and their great minister. We have met the nicest people there. We had dinner with his parents friday night and got to bed early. We got up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to help set up for the sale and finish pricing. Tim and I were assigned to the jewelry department and bake sale. We had to monitor the amount of women shopping for jewelry and to push the baked goods. We fell in love with the Sisters of the Bake sale. They were these three charming women who were pushing some mean Peeps cupcakes and Magic cookie bars. However, there were some true Bronx zoo cobras shopping the jewelry. Hardcore! It was a lot of fun and we are definitely going to help out again next year. We bought a vintage rattan sofa, rattan coffee table, turntable, nearly-new Kitchen Aid blender, garden tools, books, end table, Fiestaware, crockpot and a pellet gun ( don't ask). We finished our shift and then drove upstate to drop off all the stuff at our house.

When we drove up in our driveway, we noticed this strange object in our pond. It looked like the head of a reptile and then it disappeared. We got out of the car and walked straight to the pond and were alarmed at what we saw. A cluster of 5 frogs were head-locked together rolling over and over. Apparently, we walked in on an intimate moment with a group of frenzied frogs. Tim and I couldn't believe what we were seeing. "OMG, what are they doing? Stop them, pull them apart! Can they drown doing that? I didn't need to see that." We walked around the pond and found a huge pile of tadpole eggs already nestled in the water plants. However, it was a first for us to see frogs mating. With all of the tadpoles we had last summer, we have no idea what to expect of frogs this year. I guess the frogs weren't expecting us this weekend and we caught them in action. Who knows what they do when we are away. Gross.