Cool frog

It’s that time again when the old swamp cooler has to be brought out of hibernation. I give it a few drops of oil on the bearings and make sure the water flows in right and the drain is adjusted to drain off a bit of the excess in order to keep calcium deposits from coating everything. This season there was a bonus, a nice frog greeted me as I removed one of the pad holders. I wondered how the frog got in, but since swamp coolers aren’t air tight, there must be a way. Aha—a shrunken pad. Once it gets wet, it may cut off the frog’s exit. I’ll have to check tomorrow. Don’t want a dead frog floating in the cooler water, stinking up the house and driving us all out into the searing sunlight where we’d surely perish.