Ramblings From Justin Penney

There was a pretty heavy storm last night. My sister sent me a text message at 3:00 a.m. that just said "Go to the basement." I looked at the TV and the whole radar screen was red and they were talking abotu tornadoes, baseball sized hail and 80MPH wind. I woke Jacey and we headed to the basement!

We turned on the little TV down there and I opened one of the windows to see how bad it was outside. When I started to shut the window I saw something sticking up. I looked a little closer and it was a little toad. He was maybe an inch long and breathing like crazy. He just sat there looking over the ledge of the window. Then another one popped up right behind him. A few seconds later a third popped up.

Jacey's interest was piqued so she stood up to look as well. Just as she got close to the window a larger toad poked it's head in right in front of her. The first one jumped inside and was jumping back and forth on the ledge. Jacey looked at me and said, "was there something like this in the Bible, is the world ending?"

I cajoled the first toad back outside. Of course he jumped right back in. He hopped around looked at me and made a flying leap to the floor! This window ledge is like six feet high. This little guy is like one inch long! I pick him up, put him back outside and kind of wrangle the other back far enough to shut the window.

# posted by Justin @ 10:16 PM