Part of the walk was out to Picnic Point, where we saw some great dogs, including a white French bulldog and a Norwegian blue beagle. I petted but did not photograph the beagle, and I photographed (but did not pet) this toad:
I've never noticed a toad carrying something before. I know the difference between a toad and a frog, but I don't like creating new tags, so "frogs" includes toads, okay? Just a tagging quirk of Althouse.
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What's the difference between a toad and a frog? I have no idea but I'll guess, one lives on land and one lives in the water? Or is it based on their voting patterns?
And yes I could have Googled it but I didn't want to leave you hanging with no comments.
I don't know the difference between a toad, frog, or bullfrog for that matter.
Toads and frogs have been gerrymandered into different locales. Otherwise, one species would get all the spoils.
Beautiful day in Chicago today, too.
Drove up to Michigan today and it is gorgeous. Tucson is still hot enough to fry eggs.
The remnants of TS Cindy just brought some rain to central NC. We got an inch in half an hour. Less humidity tomorrow and a few more days without having to run the irrigation system. Score!
"The Things Toads Carried." An insightful look into Toadal War.
I need to follow your example. I've morphed from an enthusiastic and very fit runner to a proto slug. Took decades. Sort of human geologic time span. It's just as lovely in Sturgeon Bay. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, I say.
I would've walked an extra .1 miles.
BTW, if Althouse had not put in the disclaimer, you would have had 20 people showing up to tell her its a toad not a frog, blah de blah.
That's the internet.
Maybe the toad identifies as a frog. Maybe it's transitioning. Or perhaps it's just an Amphibian-American.
Is there a problem with toads showing up at frog bars and becoming 'wild amphibians'?
I'd like to have a low of 68 degrees.
It is supposed to cool off and dehumidify the next few days.
"I would've walked an extra .1 miles."
1. I don't look at the app while I'm walking (though I am pretty good at guessing what the number will be).
2. I'll probably put in .1 around the house before I stop walking for the day. If I were OCD about the numbers, I'd want to leave that last sliver for house-walking.
It's 55.9° now. Nice for sleeping with open windows!
78 in MT. Hiked a million miles, then hit the zip lines.
Vacation.
Sure, toads and frogs, but do you know the difference between a turtle and a terrapin? A terrapin dances outside mountain shacks with a tambourine.
More carefully, dances outside rural railway depots with a tambourine or banjo.
Hoping rumors of Justice Kennedy's impending retirement are true since: a) better too soon than too late; and b) justices ought not to hold on based on their views of who will be nominating their successor.
So, if you were a taxonomist you'd be a lumper and not a splitter.
It's 55.9° now.
SO close!
" A terrapin dances outside mountain shacks with a tambourine."
Good thing. I thought they were a lousy football team in Maryland.
Some rise. Some fall. Some climb. But it's terrapins all the way down.
And then you have to play the horned frogs. Life's not fair..
You're very clever, Meade, very clever!
Thanks, sane voter.
I've been told that quite a lot over the years but mostly it's in the form of "oh you think you're just so clever, don't you, Meade?"
I would say not horned frogs but good Texas hornitoads as caught on Carswell AFB housing yards in my bright sunny pre-kindergarden youth. (Grade School was at Malmstrom, not so sunny.) I went to T A&M Later so I can say Gig Them.
Excellent cloud shapes made the lake (Mendota) photographable:
That is a superb photo, Althouse. I lived around there for years and never saw reflections like that.
Passing clouds use lake as mirror unaware how light the image is.
I wonder if the officious jerk who pretended the Fitzgerald was not at fault for the collision has read this or any other current article about the collision.?
Steven M. Morawiec, of Sparta, Wis., who spent 22 years in the Navy and many times took charge of his ship at night as the officer of the deck, said the failure to summon the captain was incomprehensible.
“On my ship, if another ship was expected to get within 4,000 yards, you had to have the captain there beside you,” he said. “If you didn’t wake the captain when you were supposed to, you were toast.”
Doc, I haven't seen this article, we'll follow your link in a minute, but it's interesting how this has dropped off the face of the earth. Is this article conclusive and have you got more or is this just a shot in the wars?
It seems like it should have been really really hard to make this particular sort of mistake. So many things should have had to go wrong.
That Lake Mendota pic is truly awesome.
Love those health apps.
My wife and I got Fitbits to encourage us to do more physical activity. We also ride motorcycles. At the end of a 300+ mile day Fitbit said I'd climbed 538 flights of stairs.
I'm a monster.
Pepe the Frog memes are everywhere...
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