This really is going to become a thing, isn’t it?
At any rate, we had violent thunderstorms all day which means that both I and Mr. Frog took long naps, and mom could not find him, so here is a picture from another day:
Can you find him?
Oh, I think I missed my soberversary again. I think I am at 8 or 9 years.
BeautifulPlumage
I enjoy these! And such a lovely spot with all the greenery & details. Lucky frog!
Another Scott
It’s too easy. It’s behind that big long leaf on the right. He doesn’t move so there’s no challenge.
I think I’m done – 08/09/2013.
Congratulations!! I, and everyone here, are really glad.
Cheers,
Scott.
Misterpuf
Where’s Froggo?
It could be a best selling series….
Sandia Blanca
Two Cole posts in a row! That nap must’ve refreshed you. I see Mr. Frog, and enjoy having these puzzles every day. Full-service blog indeed.
CaseyL
As long as your Mom can keep taking the photos, I sure hope so! It’s a lovely bit of fun.
Found the froggo. And do I see a real turtle as well?
Congrats on the soberversary! Is it a good thing if you’re not sure how many years (because it’s no longer foremost in your mind)?
Fake Irishman
I’m finding this quite amusing. This year my three-year-old and I caught a bunch of tadpoles in a nearby ditch and raised them to toads in one of this little aquariums. She loved feeding them cubes of boiled spinach and releasing the toads into our backyard. It’s amazing how little they are when they first complete metamorphosis considering how honking huge they can get down here in the swamp we call Houston.
Ohio Mom
I looked forward to finding Mr. Frog all day.
Congratulations on this very happy anniversary.
And now it is my bedtime. Sweet dreams, all.
H.E.Wolf
Congratulations on the nap and the ‘versary!
I’m terrible at finding Mr Frog, but this series has given me delightful flashbacks to my hoptoad-aficionado childhood. :)
Hunter Gathers
I wonder where that frog has gone.
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
And it went wherever I did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little frog.
And it went wherever I did go.
Where can that frog be?
Have you thought of the drawers in the bureau?!
It is a most elusive frog!
And it went wherever I did go.
Ooooh, frogy, frogy, frogy, frog!
A-frog, a-frog, a-frogy, ooooh.
Ooooh, frogy, frogy, frogy frog!
That went wherever I did go.
zeecube
Yay. 2 of 3 so far. (Could not locate MF last night.)
M. Bouffant
Good for you. Haven’t had likker since Thanksgiving 2015, & don’t miss it.
Poe Larity
No, but I see the mustard
Jackie
This one was “easier!” The last two were challenging.
Suggestion: When you post each new Where’s Mr Frog, could you also show where he is in the previous photo? That gives us roughly 24 hrs to seek and find.
jl
Ok, I see Mr. Frog, the real one, not the stone one, this time. I’ll look for it in the other pics.
Kind of hard to believe Cole is all of 8 or 9. Not sure what that has to do with any soberversary.
Morzer
Alright, Mr Frog, you evasive green fucker, it’s drone strike time! The War on Batrachian Terror continues!
Yutsano
Okay I see the ribbit this time. Much easier to spot.
EDIT: decided to look for another froggy just in case.
jl
OK, I definitely saw the real frog in the first pic. If I’m right, the real frog is hard to see in the second because it is almost all just under the surface of the water.
In a desperate attempt to placate the BJ pedants and universal mavens, to be specific the frog is obscured by lying just below the meniscus of the water. Unless I didn’t really see the real frog and am full of shit, in which case never mind.
Fake Irishman
Affirmation and acknowledgement to our humble blog host and everyone else in our community who are facing down alcoholism. Lots of bystanders here quietly cheering you all on. One of my favorite Cole posts was about him checking into rehab. It’s poignant and a serious comment on some major problems we have with our health care system. And it is absolutely hilarious in the same way that the Subaru in the field story is; John Cole is pretty sure he’s the level-headed logical one and every other protagonist is bananas (a view that would be shared by a reasonable outside observer), but as the story progresses, we all start questioning our sanity.
Another Scott
Ack! Ack!!
Entertaining thread.
Cheers,
Scott.
HumboldtBlue
If you’re feeling froggy, just jump already.
Otherwise, fricassee up some frog legs or something.
Come to think of it. I’m not sure I have ever fricassee’d something.
evap
Congrats, John! Funny, it seems like only a couple of years ago that I was reading about your decision to stop drinking. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I began reading this blog around the time of the 2004 presidential election, when I first became obsessed with politics. So I’m been reading this blog for about 17 years. The mind boggles!
NotMax
Great gallopin’ grenouilles, another amphibious diapason culled from the cluttered cobwebbed chambers of the cranium.
Another Scott
Terry’s doing great, but Glenn will still probably get more than the Crazification Factor in November.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Julia in Oregon
Hey John I’m your Facebook friend in Oregon. Thought I would join the group. Hope you will let me.
trollhattan
After wet winters we get what I believe are Sierra tree frogs in the neighborhood and yard. They’re very shy and while they’re croaking I’ve tried, and tried, to sneak up and get a peek at one and have never succeeded. Clever little amphibians, frogs.
ETA this could be why.
Julia in Oregon
I see the frog! In Oregon the sky is orange and smoky. I hope you are all well. Mem, Steve in the ATL etc. now that I am retired and have to have a damn knee replacement due to my 2 year old Rottie fracturing my right tibia. I hope to join the group in person. I lurked at work for years, even the loss of Tunch. I cried.
Major Major Major Major
What a great feature! Happy anniversary.
Julia in Oregon
@Julia in Oregon: John if you are asleep no worries.
NotMax
@Julia in Oregon
The other Mr. Cole: Flash! Bang! Alakazam!
;)
Julia in Oregon
@NotMax: not max I always love your comments. So hilarious
Julia in Oregon
@NotMax: we are burning up the forests here sad to say. When I moved to Oregon it rained all the time. Now? Nothing. Climate change sucks.
Julia in Oregon
I loved Portland Oregon from 1979 to 1989 but it has changed horribly . Overgrown, bad traffic, homeless people living under the bridges. Sad. Glad I live in a small town on the coast where it stays in the 60’s.
Ellie
Wait, there’s a real frog in these photos?
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Finally, something that rhymes with orange: sky.
Us, until November or somesuch. TBH it’s not reached anything near 2020 here but that’s because the coast range has not been on fire. Plenty of time for that.
Ten Bears
I stopped counting, one day at a time. Kudos.
trollhattan
@Ellie: There is indeed. Yesterday’s was a bit of froggie nose while today’s is a frog in full.
Think small.
randy khan
The high-quality photos do make it easier.
And I’m probably wrong about this, but forgetting that kind of anniversary always seems like a good sign to me.
trollhattan
The main reason Republicans keep Devin Nunes in office: to make Kevin McCarthy appear smart in contrast.
Regine Touchon
Besides trying to find the friggin frog every night, which I do diligently, who built the pond? John I know there’s a story. I must confess, it took a bit to find Mr. Frog tonight. And we need a theme song: a frog went a courting?
NotMax
@Julia in Oregon
Yup, it’s rough out there. And here.
Related,
westyny
Happy soberversary, John! It’s truly a BFD. I traded the drunkverse for the soberverse decades ago and have never regretted it.
CaseyL
@Julia in Oregon: Welcome!
NotMax
@trollhattan
It’s not just a town in California any more.
;)
Yutsano
@Julia in Oregon: Have you received your customary FUCK YOU! yet? Let me get that out of the way.
Welcome to the pack! Although you have been a Jackal from way back.
Poe Larity
sigh.
NotMax
@Yutsano
Once you go jackal you never go backal.
;)
Bruce K in ATH-GR
The second picture I almost missed Mr. Frog because (if I guessed correctly) he was half underwater and doing a very good impression of a rock, which means his natural camouflage is doing its job very well. I keep having to refer to the first picture to remind myself what Mr. Frog looks like. (And I keep looking for excuses for lame jokes like my brain insisting I was looking instead for Mr. The Frog.)
(Virtual internet cookie to anyone who gets that reference.)
I think that in these trying times, we do need our occasional moments of zen and silliness, and I certainly appreciate Our Gracious Host’s efforts in that regard. Kind of like a USO show for the worn-out GIs pushing Fritz back to the Rhine.
Major Major Major Major
Cat update
mrmoshpotato
@Major Major Major Major: What’s he watching – everything, right?
Major Major Major Major
@mrmoshpotato: nothing in particular, yeah
rikyrah
@Major Major Major Major:
So beautiful????
rikyrah
I am bad at this, but love the posts, Cole?
Cathie from Canada
Anybody remember The Brothers Four version of “Froggy went a courtin’ and he did go”?
It took me a while to find it, but here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRmk_nKfn9Q
HumboldtBlue
@Major Major Major Major:
I see you, homie.
mrmoshpotato
@Cathie from Canada: I prefer it with more “CRAMBOOOONE!”
Jackie
@mrmoshpotato: ???
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie: Hehehe ?
Cathie from Canada
@mrmoshpotato: That is HILARIOUS! I’ve never seen this before!
Mary G
@Jackie: Second the suggestion to give the day before’s location. I accidently found #1, but last night and tonight I’m striking out.
opiejeanne
I found Mr Frog tonight, no problem.
Yesterday, though, not at all. Not even with the hint from a nice person.
opiejeanne
@Another Scott: Thank you for posting this. I had forgotten that, and was surprised to see my comment so early in the thread, and that it was thoughtful and nice. (I wish I weren’t such a sourpuss so much of the time).
opiejeanne
@H.E.Wolf: There was always a toad that lived under the garden faucet at the very back of our yard when I was a kid. He/she was heard but rarely seen, and I have always thought that a standing pipe like that should have a resident toad at the base.
ColoradoGuy
Hi Julia in Oregon! I was in PDX and suburbs from 1973 through 2000. Last time I visited was about four years ago and it was unrecognizable. The charming inner Northwest neighborhood had become a jam-packed row of boutique restaurants and fancy townhouses, and the homeless problem had exploded into a tent city. The most recent pix I see on Willamette Week shows a formerly pristine downtown that looks rough, with many boarded-up storefronts.
PDX will recover. It always has before, and it has come a long long way from the parochial lumber town it was in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Bit heavier than these threads are supposed to be but, Qanon turns on Evangelical Leaders
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-qanon-conspiracy-theory-inevitably-turns-on-evangelicals/
Oddly Me Too.
I wonder how long before they turn on TFG
sab
Am I right that this frog is brown, not green?
opiejeanne
@sab: That is right. It took me a while to find it in the first photo because I was looking for a green frog, but it is not green.
Rusty
John, congratulations on the anniversary. Keep trudging the road of sobriety, the changes are more subtle but deeper the longer you go. It will be 32 years for me at Thanksgiving if I can avoid screwing it up.
debbie
Kinda rude of Mr. Frog to turn his back to the camera…. ??♀️
satby
Belated soberversary John.
And yes, Mr. Frog is our shiny new thing that we all love.
Ken
I’m a little worried that we’ll be deprived of our new toy when winter arrives. Maybe John should cut back to weekly frog posts, to save some inventory.
Betty
@Another Scott: You aren’t supposed to spoil it!
xjmuellerlurks
John, congrats on your soberversary. May you have many more.
Madeleine
Dead thread, probably, but I found the frog!!! For the first time! (These are beautiful photos to spend time over, successful frog finding, or not.)
Drunkenhausfrau
I’m afraid Mr Frog will become Mr Snack. Don’t tell me if that happens.
Rat Lady
Find Mr. Frog has become the best part of my day. Thank you.