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A little froggy humor

By Virginia Tatseos

Home Stager with Stage-Show-Sell

January 25, 2008 07:20 AM

Last week I rec'd an absolutely beautiful bunch of flowers. Since it's really cold and snowy fresh flowers are really appreciated.

My grandkids were spending the day with my husband and me. It's so good to have them around for the day. We played cards, education games, built things with zoobs and Lego. They played in the snow for awhile. Great day.

In the afternoon my granddaughter was looking at my flowers, talking about the great smells and colors when a frog jumped out of the arrangements.

Now they have a pet frog in their aquarium at home.

I have a little problem here. The frog or flowers didn't come from Michigan. It's way too cold for that All our frogs are in hiding till spring.

Is this frog legal or do I have to get a green card for it?

Update May 2008. He didn't make it thru the winter. The kids tried very hard but he had to make the leap to the great beyond

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Kristina Leone

Lionheart Home Staging, LLC - Minneapolis, MN

What a funny story! At least it was only a frog! I have heard of people seeing spiders in their bananas!

Jan 25, 2008 08:12 AM

Maureen Maureen

Orangeburg, NY

Virginia - that is hilarious! Glad he found a good home.

Jan 25, 2008 10:50 AM

Marianne Sweet

Home Sweet Home Staging - Rochester Hills, MI

Home Sweet Home Staging, LLC Rochester Hills, MI

Yikes! That would have scared the bejezus out of me!

Here's an interesting bit of trivia..........heard on "Jeopardy" the other night that green cards are, in fact, issued on pink paper! Go figure!

Welcome to Michigan, Froggy Friend! What did your grandkids name him?

Jan 25, 2008 10:13 PM

Virginia Tatseos

Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

My Grandfrog is called Stow Away. He seems to be doing well in his aquarium. Their feeding him fish food right now.

Hope he makes it till April when he'll go outside.

Jan 25, 2008 10:54 PM

Erby Crofutt

B4 U Close Home Inspections&Radon Testing (www.b4uclose.com) - Lexington, KY

The Central Kentucky Home Inspector, Lexington KY

I notice you said "They played in the snow for awhile".

You didn't join them for a snowball fight?

Jan 25, 2008 11:17 PM

Christina Williams. REALTOR® TN property search & local insights

First Realty Company - Crossville, TN

How cute... Does the frog look like an american? ; )

Jan 26, 2008 01:36 AM

Virginia Tatseos

Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

Erby.......... no I didn't go in the snow and play. Not this winter. You must have missed the post about me breaking my foot this fall. No way am I going to go in the snow and play. One day I thought that should get the mail from the mail box and fell right on my a-- . We live on a gravel road that was frozen over with fresh snow on top.

Nope this lady is not taking any more chances.

Christina, he croaks with a little accent. I can't tell if it's Brazilian or Mexican :-)

Jan 26, 2008 07:28 AM

Angie Ridley

Complete Realty, LLC - Flint, MI

Broker, ABR, CRS, PMN, WCR, At Home With Diversity

Is that the arrangement you received when you received the Michigan's Women's Council Member of the Year award????

Congratulations.

Jan 28, 2008 10:55 AM

Virginia Tatseos

Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

Yes, it is :-)

I told Beth about it and she just roared.

I rec'd the following from a friend

If you make that frog work for you (performing in the aquarium) - I can recommend an excellent Immigration Attorney... just to be on the safe side.
M.

attorney

Jan 28, 2008 01:02 PM

Janis Gaines

Staging Sells Eugene Homes - Eugene, OR

Home Stager Eugene OR - The Notably Well-Dressed H

I make my frog work for me!

working frog

Jan 28, 2008 02:03 PM

Angie Ridley

Complete Realty, LLC - Flint, MI

Broker, ABR, CRS, PMN, WCR, At Home With Diversity

Oh my gosh, it stayed alive that long living in the flowers only. That is amazing...

Jan 29, 2008 12:09 AM

Deb Brooks

Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Hey Virginia! Have you tried giving it a kiss? It might just be your prince! Worth a try. :-) Deb

Jan 30, 2008 03:15 PM

Virginia Tatseos

Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

Deb, I'm married, over 41 years, to my prince.

Update: He's still doing well. I will get to 'baby sit' him and my grand dog for a week.

They are feeding him live crickets crickets as frog food

They check each one over to make sure that the famous one isn't there

Jimney Cricket

Feb 03, 2008 12:55 AM

Derek Bauer's, www.DoorToDreams.com Door to Dreams Home Selling Team

Real Estate One - South Lyon, MI

I guess depending on who gets elected, the froggy may get sent back to wherever it came from, Green card or not :)

Feb 08, 2008 12:03 AM

Deb Brooks

Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Hi Virginia, I loved your story but have not heard anything from you. Are you doing okay? I enjoyed this article. Deb

Feb 08, 2008 11:55 AM

Virginia Tatseos

Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

I got side tracked this week with catching up on paper work (yuk) for taxes. Trying to figure out how to keep what I earn.

This week I aslo spend too much time trying to figure out what to do for my Chapter's website. I do a lot with WCR Michigan and the local Birmingham Bloomfield Chapter. This week I went into the site to work on it and BLAM the poop hit the fan. The site had a trojan horse. My AVG and webroot spy program got it but it still infected my registry.

We had that cleaned out and i tried the site again just to make sure that's where it came from and BLAM again. Cleaned out computer again and started notifying the other chapters to watch out. Those who hadn't updated their programs got hit bad others seem to had little damage.

Soooo many days this week were lost to making sure the site is working again and playing with substituting the website with Active Rain, Real Town or Facebook.

I could write for a week about which system I think is best. That wouldn't be as funny as the frog story.

He's still doing well :-)

Comcast has slowed me down this week too making all efforts to work on Active Rain etc very difficult. The internet was extremely slow. It's appears that the cable lines don't like a lot of snow and cold.

It's nice to be missed.

Feb 08, 2008 01:17 PM