Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 24, 2024

You ARE the life of the party!

And if you wore the hat, you could be a cowboy too …!

A ear wiggle speaks louder than any smile!

who figures this stuff out?

And I twitch my nose back (Bewitched style) in greeting.

Anytime you can put an Armadillo in a cartoon, you do it. Especially an Armadillo who can wiggle one ear.

Armadillo body language is subtle.

Yeah, but now get boogieing (?) and shake that TAIL!!

Neon green armadillo wiggling its ear in glee is a sure sign spring is around the corner.

Never mind showing off! Pay attention, and look both ways before crossing roads!

Sign here.

I AM AN AMERICAN, AMAN.

MOTHER MARY, LET IT BE.

Some folks are happy even when they don’t look it. Others put on a happy face when they are dying inside. Be kind to everyone.

These are the ones that carry leprosy.

My aunt was like that.

Starting the day with a broad(?) Armadillo grin.

I can see that, you little chubby-kin’s! What’s next on your activity list? ☺️❤️

I have been to the Armadillo World Headquarters (R.I.P.) in Austin, Texas.

I have heard Jerry Jeff Walker (also R.I.P.) and the Lost Gonzo Band sing “I wanna go home with the armadillo.”

I saw with my own eyes the giant armadillo* over the bar at The Lone Star Cafe (also also R.I.P.) at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street in New York City.

Once near a tributary of Terrapin Creek in McCurtain County, Oklahoma I freed an armadillo’s head that was trapped in a large tin can.

I have trapped armadillos that were digging up sod in my back yard looking for grubs.

None of the above was an ear-twitching green cartoon depiction of an armadillo.

* This is a bald-faced lie. It was a giant iguana but armadillo fits my narrative and I’m hoping nobody reading this knows the difference.

mad skills…

I can wiggle both ears without moving my eyebrows …!

( no money in it though )

That’s what’s wrong with this here country! All them durn lib’rel green ( prolly some dang hippie climate freak) armadillas with thur riotous gleeful ear-wigglin’! Buncha dang commie furriners!

Riotous glee…keep it down to a dull roar, could ya?

nothing worse than a slow armadillo! Oh, wait, they’re all slow

Golly gee,

Golly glee.

Pushing the noodle.

Smearing the noodle.

Glee is jlee ree mee queen.

Happy is skiing on the Bunny Hills for beginners.