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what a nice story On Dec 3, 2007 1:31 PM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Gibb River frogs are very loud. Their sound is often like rasping > thick rope over wood, perhaps on the edge of a pearl lugger. Other > times (it may be a different species of frog), they balloon out sound > in big green belches which rise in volume, stop, and start again. > After rain they belch for hour after hour. > > Two nights ago, after rain, we were watching Betty Blue, the > Director's Cut, on DVD, when a frog started up on the front verandah, > just a thin glass window away from where we sat. The sex scenes were > laughable with this green belching soundtrack, so I went outside to > shoo him away. He sat solidly on the cement floor. I tried picking him > up to move him into the bush but he jumped out of my hand before I had > any sort of gentle grip – and landed on my bare foot, where he > settled, quite comfortable. I laughed so much my wife came to see what > was so funny but stayed back in horror. 'O, what does he feel like?' > she asked. I replied, 'Warm and wet, a bit like a freshly caught > fish.' He belched as punctuation, and I felt his fat Buddha body rise > and fall on my foot. It felt like some kind of natural blessing, a > benediction from the frog world. I would've chanted with him if I'd > known his tongue. > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ >