Freezing Frogs.. freezing life - this may get somebody POed



Opal (mom),
Chase. Cliff (dad), and Wynter

To set a few things straight before we get started.  POed means Put Out so no one is offended.  Now if you were Cliff Olson you would say Pissed Off but again I don't want anyone offended.  In fact lets go ahead and give a few more of Dad's sayings:

I am sure Jon Tanny and Eddy and many others have experienced this one:
   He would walk up to you, roll up his fist and just like knocking on a door, he would start rapping on your head and say, "my fist is a fart knocker".  Now if you just don't get it, he was saying he was knocking on a fart!

Well let's get onto the freezing frogs.  This was about the time that freezing people became a hot topic.  That is where someone could be frozen for many years and brought back to life when technology and the world changed and in particular a solution to an illness could be cured.  Well you guessed it, Eddy Harris and I decided we wanted to try it.  I think Jon Tanny was in on this one but not sure. 
Steps to the scientific study of

Cryogenic preservation:

Don't we seem really smart? 
 1.  The first thing we had to do was catch a frog. 
 2.  The second challenge is who is going to hold it while we attempt to freeze it.
 3.  What would you freeze the frog with?
 4.  How do you un-thaw a frog and bring it back to life?

Frog gigging was the easy part but we had to keep it alive so we brought a gunny sack.  A gunny sack is a sack that you get cattle cake in for feeding the cattle.  It is made of burlap and it breaths easily so that our freezing agent can penetrate which solves number two.  Propane!  That is the answer.  Now you are probably use to those sissy size 20 lb tanks for your grill but we used big ones to store enough to heat the house an fuel tractors and pickups.

This is a sissy sized propane tank.

Now I have to tell you not to try this as it is dangerous and you could kill yourself or someone else or you could blow up your house, pickup, even your gun.  So don't play with propane.  Well we took the hose attached to the BIG propane tank and our gunny sack filled with at least one pond frog.

Eureka!  It worked.  We froze that frog. 

Now how do you defrost a frog and bring it back to life?  Well you start a fire.  Don't get excited we did not blow anything up and again DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE, PROPANE, GUNS, AMMUNITION OR ANYTHING ELSE AND DON'T HURT THE FROGS EVEN FOR SCIENCE.  Get over it and don't read my blog. 

Anyway we slowly thawed out our frog and we noticed it did not come back to life immediately.  But we were prepared as we had seen Frankenstein.  So we found an electrical cord  and cut off one end, the end you don't plug into the wall.  We tied the two wire to the frog and plugged it in!!!!!!!!!  We created a monster!!!!  Naw, it did not work but just like Thomas Edison we were not deterred from our pursuit of science. 

We could blame this all on Aunt Gladys, Mrs. Snyder, the science teacher at Shidler.  She is the gray headed lady to the left.  She messed up a lot of us with her teaching especially Craig Lotts who became a pharmacist in Crescent, Oklahoma, just kidding about messing him up.  She was one of the best ever teachers in Shidler history in my opinion.

Well what did we learn:

a. I wish I could say we learned not to play with propane which you SHOULD NOT DO

b. If we keep regulating and protecting everyone by law from everything and holding everyone legally responsible for bad decisions, like playing with propane, then we will KILL creativity just like the FROG

Eddy and Jon Tanny and I were never great students relative to grades but I guarantee we learned to be tenacious at solving problems and figuring things out.  And one last thing I just cannot resist.  EVERY TIME WE PASS ONE LAW TO PROTECT ONE PERSON WE TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS OF EVERYONE ELSE

Thanks for your time,

gary@thepioneerman.com

Read a book, it might inspire you to the study of cryogenics