This thursday is our 5 year wedding anniversary, I never thought I would be able to manage anything for 5 years, but that time is upon us. It just so happens it has also been 5 years sice we moved into our house. It was a long and drawn out process to get the place built so when we moved in and the basement smelled like death, we were concerned, I had alot of issues with the construction manager, who was promptly fired by the construction firm after the ordeal was finished and while he wasn't the kind of people to burry a body in my basement, burying a dead cat or something like that out of revenge was not far beyond the realm of possibility. The smell dissipated over a month or so and we never through anything of it. Then, about a year later, during some heavy rain I decided to check the sump hole for water…there was none, but there was the dried to a crisp body of a frog plastered into the concrete at the bottom. So, that solved the mystery of where the smell was coming from. For years we joked about the day we get enough water to fill the sump will be the day the zombie frog climbs out of the sump and starts hopping around the basement.
Fast forward to this weekend……
I am discussing with my neighbor how our sump has been running constantly from all of this rain. He asked to take a look since he didn’t believe me that where we live, at the top of the hill, there would be water in our basement. As I removed to cover from the sump I almost shit as a frog sitting on the sump turned and jumped into the water.
My neighbor, thinking I totally lost my mind as I yelled to my wife that the end is near, the zombie frog has risen, made some excuse to have to go back home and left as quickly as he could. The frog disappeared into a drain pipe and I thought it was over. But I was wrong
Yesterday I noticed that the water was finally below the drain pipe and the frog would be trapped. I went to the basement and after a few minutes of chasing him around the sump hole, I caught him. He was a cute, healthy little leopard frog which I checked for normal zombiefication but saw none, so I released him back into the wild. I also checked and the remains of the long dead frog are no longer at the bottom of the sump, but even as hearty as some frogs are, it can’t be the same one….I mean, the body was probably just so dry and crispy it just washed away…..right?
So, how did it get into my basement? The drain that leads to my sump comes from a solid rock drain field that is under our house with no access to any above ground areas. The sump has a vented cover, but not vented enough for the frog to squeeze through, and the only way anything could get into our basement is through the door in the house, there are no outside doors or windows, no other drains that it could have sneaked trough…. So where did it come from? Unless a frog that has been dried up for 5 years could spontaneously come back to life, I may be forced to consider that told myth about spontaneous generation…..or have I unknowingly unleashed the frog version of the zombie apocalypse on an unsuspecting population of amphibians? Only time will tell, But as I was releasing the frog outside I saw my neighbor looking out of his back window, I waived and triumphantly held up the frog, he slammed the blinds shut, and immedatly turned off all lights in the house...I guess I won't be bailing him out when an army of zombie frogs are trying to beat down his door.
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