Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 22, 2020

If you want to beat an epidemic you have to look at the big pitcher.

That pitcher went wild. Of course I’m just spitballing here.

Just add minnows…

What? You drink out of it? Good Lord! Where were you raised?

It’s your own darn fault if that happens, because there should not be any water in the pitcher in the spare room until and unless someone occupies the room! D’oh!

Fire the chambermaid! Maybe even burn her at the stake so that the smoke will stave off the pestilential infestation! (Just trying to be practical, ya know?)

Flying hypodermic needles.

They don’t carry something useful, like luck, or intelligence, or literacy. Oh, no, it has to be West Nile and encephalitis.

http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/mosquito-borne-diseases/index.html

…the spare tire out in the yard ain’t so good for them, either…

…old literature is the best litter…

…that’s alright…

…the bats will eat them…

…might not be as fancy as fishnets…

… but mosquito nets can be fun too…

…spare bedrooms and empty chamber pots…

…was that an old Hankie In Your Pocket?…

… froglandia archives are still on microtape…

… Andy the robot got what he deserved…

…though Rhea of the Cöos never did…

mosquitoes are like family, they might be a pain, but they carry our blood

The owner’s will claim they were framed.

You guys make it hard to leave a comment that doesn’t suck mosquito larva. How did Teresa get so many funny people on her side of the fence?

A few drops of essential scented oils will keep the pitcher in your spare room mosquito free. This was commonly known throughout Froglandia, although people in Florida, a less advanced country, had no idea of such things, or even how pleasant a few drops of scented oil made their daily ablutions. Primitive skunk ape people, all of them.

Finally… which came first the chicken or the egg???

A tough one to crack, eh…..

Now! Now is the time for my dragonfly farm! Oh why didn’t I get the financing sooner?!

Ooooo chamber maid, when was the last time you changed the pitcher of water? It’s blood curdling…..and there’s that spittoon in the corner…HELLOOOOOOO ?

The unattended spare room pitcher … aka,

the Murder Skeeter Breeder …!

This reminds me of an illustration I saw decades ago with a story about fingerprints betraying a crime and tiny spider webs all over the furniture that looked like fingerprints.

And here I thought it was the maid in the lounge… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_A0S9uLFb8

Which was convenient because the town had started spreading kerosene on the pond.

People take me on hikes because I draw the mosquitoes away from them, they like my blood type.

The skeeter is back

The skeeter is back

Ltom Jonny

Arrgh! The mosquitoes are coming! The mosquitoes are coming! RAID the air….