Frogs

I see in the Monday D&C the paper Foss called "The Demunist&Comucrat" that a warning is out for drivers to be careful tonight cause the first rain in warm weather usually brings about the emergence of Spring Peepers in large numbers looking for love or whatever frogs do.I recall a spring night in 1973 when Teg Jones and I were cruising Railroad Mills in the convertible after dark with the top down when our headlights hit thousands of the peepers right before Railroad Mills ended by Faith Cowgills house.It was incredible and though we swerved way over and moved very slow we may have squashed one or two.A lot of the swampy areas along Railroad Mills are gone.When we first lived there there was always a small pond at the end of the street each spring heading towards Powdermills.One day Wildman was down there with his model rockets and we decided to send up a"Manned" flight.We caught a small frog from the pond put it in the nose capsule and launched the rocket.When it crash landed with the parachutes that never seemed to open all the way we found froggy melted inside.We sort of felt bad cause we didn't think the top would get hot enough to fry froggy plus he was way to small for us to enjoy the frog legs.