Toad Blogging – Habitat for Toadanity
August 11th, 2006 at 2:56 pm by CrankyCranky manor is in a development built about fifty years ago on a farm known as “Seven Springs Ranch.” It turns out that four of the springs are in my back yard.
The constant dampness has been a pain for trying to maintain a lawn. On the other hand, it has been a blessing to my frog and toad friends.
Being the closet environmentalist that I am, I am building a medium sized pond in my back yard.
The thinking is, if I build it they will come. However, they are not even waiting for it to be built. While laying these stones with Cranky Jr., we counted nine frogs loitering in the water.
If you’ve heard that the worldwide frog population is vanishing, let me inform you that it is not. They’ve all moved to my neighborhood.
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August 11th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Tons of frogs here too. It’s supposed to be a sign of a good natural environment. I came to terms with aphids a few years back, and decided I could tolerate them and stop poisoning them if that meant I would also have ladybugs, frogs, dragonflies, lightning bugs and butterflies.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
since this week features a frog, which is definitively not a toad, are you opening the blogging to other amphibians as well?
either way, i’m submitting another toad.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Q: If a toad goes “ribbit” in the forest, but there’s no one around to hear, does it still exist?
A: No, silly. Toads don’t go “ribbit” only frogs do.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Q: If Jimmy Carter builds a home for a toad, does that mean the toad is un-American?
A: No. Toads have very small brains and are apolitical. Jimmy Carter also has a very small brain, but he is un-American.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
You realize this is the beginning of the plague, right?
August 11th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
You guys are too sharp. Yes, the toads seem to have disappeared. So like the Folgers commercial, I’ve substituted your favorite toads for our new brand to see if you noticed.
catbat, did you see your earlier submission? We posted it. Please send more!
Donnah, it’s cool that you took the hit with aphids to have wildlife.
annika, thanks for straightening that out. I always forget which one has a sticky tongue and which one cuddles up to every third world dictator.
Preston, let my people go!
August 12th, 2006 at 12:22 am
Plague? The French would call it an abundance of exotic fare… or brothers.
And Carter has a brain?
August 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Harboring FROGS???:shock: Oohhh, the shame.
Yes AD, Carter has a brain like Rangel, Lamont and Jackson. Very small and left hemisphere only.
August 13th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Cranky-
Now I use these yellow paper plates that I stick on popsicle sticks and smear with Vaseline. I still get to kill, just more selectively.
Al Gore should come study me.
August 14th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
One last question, Donnah. Is it true Florida has mosquitos which are big enough to fly off with children.
If so, how do you deal with that?