civilized ku # 710-11 ~ the one that almost got away
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 02:28PM 
Froglegs ~ Wanakena, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenJust prior to the serving of my plate o' frog legs, the wife put her hand on my forehead to see if I had a temperature. It was her clever non-verbal way of saying that, after noticing I had left my camera(s) in the car, I must be feverish or something because I rarely go anywhere without a camera.
In fact, while getting out of the car, I had made a decision to leave both of the cameras in the car. Don't know exactly why I decided to do that but I do know that a thought did cross my mind that nothing of interest was going to be seen or happen in the decidedly nondescript bar/restaurant we were about to enter - The Pinecone Restaurant (as seen across the river in the previous entry).
However, when the attractively presented plate o' frog legs (with deep-fried "pinecone" mashed potatoes) was served and after demonstrating to the wife how frog legs could walk, dance, do calisthenics (jumping-jacks in particular), and how they could sit on the rim of a plate with their legs crossed, I just had to go out and get a camera.
All of that said, it wasn't until near the end of the meal that the wife noticed one of the frog legs on the floor. Don't know weather he/she was trying to escape or just taking a walk and fell but I managed to retrieve him/her, dust him/her off, and dispatch him/her to join his/her brethren.
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