It was a fine afternoon, we decided to spend a few minutes in our school garden before going home. We surveyed our squash (family of pumpkins) to look for its male flowers and put them in with female flowers (cross-pollination).
In the middle of the silence (all students went home already), we heard a scary noise coming from somewhere! (OMG, what was that?!) It was like the sound made by a character in the horror movie "The grudge".
As we listen closely, we concluded that the strange sound came from the vast pile of leaves and vines covered with the wide leaves of the squash.
Unfortunately, there is one flower of squash in the area where the sound came from. We were troubled by the scary sound but we were determined to get that one last flower.
My colleague courageously went up there to pick the flower. Moving very quickly, he ran fast as he could after getting the flower.
He told us what he saw. And you know what was it? The scary sound came from a dark brown big fat frog!
I certainly am scared of frogs!
haha.... that's funny. Yup - we have lots of frogs in our garden and they can give you quite a fright!! I've even picked one up thinking it was a stone once!!
Pollinating pumpkins by hand is something I'd forgotten about - we have a lot of MOSQUITOES in Thailand and they're actually amazing pollinators.
Hahaha omg this is the best Halloween horror story in the garden! Love it! You created suspense beautifully. Thanks for this - loved it!