The creature won!

Did you every have one of those days?  Of course you have...well I thought about going out and buying a few plants for my deck pots. We have record breaking heat here - highs in the 80's and it is only mid March. Anyway I bought my plants and took them from the garage to the deck via the house. As I opened the door to the put them on the deck until I cold get out there I noticed some leaves on the chair.  NOT. It was a toad. As most of you know for all the outside things I do, gardening, mowing, edging, trimming etc etc. I just can't seem get past creepy things.  Maybe because I didn't have boys but somewhere along the way I got pretty squeamish. I turned around and slammed the door and walked right back to the garage.It is rather a really big problem. I have tried over the years not to be. To no avail.

So about 2 weeks ago I found a toad while turning over one of my many flower beds. I touched it thinking it was a clod of dirt and well that ruined that day. But knowing that they are good for getting rid of bugs, something else I don't do well with, I tried to be the grown up and let him stay. He won. I went in and washed up and called it a day.  Oh if I knew then what I know now he should have been jarred up and moved to a new state!

So he is back, or so I hope, as if it is not him I am really in deep trouble. I don't think I could handle more than one toad. Well let's face it I can't handle one.  It is the strangest thing as I can actually feel my heart jump in and out of my chest and I start to breath really fast. I think I could actually pass out! I don't like not being in control.  I called my husband at work. I figured he could tell me what to do, right?  Well, he had a very good laugh and then said just don't use that door.. Hmmm really that is as good as it gets? You're not going to jump in your car and drive an hour home to trap this little nasty creature that is tormenting your wife? Thanks honey! I know - not really but don't think the thought didn't cross my mind ha ha!

I got brave and bearing my good GERMAN boots and a pair of garden gloves I decide to move the whole chair outside the fence to the neighbors yard until the man of the house can come home and displace "the creature" for me.  It took me about 5 min to get up the nerve but eventually I started to move the chair slowly off the deck. Then he moved and  my heart about fell out my chest.  He hung on so I picked up the pace and got the chair half way across the yard when he took a jump.  Then a large scream escaped my throat and I ran for a bucket any bucket to put over him. I don't want to chew him up in the lawn mower later! So when my husband gets home tonight and the lawn is mowed all expect for a perfect circle under the bucket, that is why!

under the bucket is the creature

I decided to take a break I had had my workout for the day. I don't need to do an cardiovascular exercise because all the exercise in the world would not raise my  heart rate the way that stupid little 3 inch creature did.  Maybe I should move NORTH!