Jim's Frog Blog

Back in 1973 a movie came out that scared the bejesus out of me... The Exorcist .  I went with a friend to see the show and that night, when...

On Thursday morning Joe was sunning herself in the Bridge Pond. I took that opportunity to introduce Joe to the lady who cleans our house. ...

Woodhouse Toadlet Update: The oldest toadpoles or pollywog's or toadlets or, my new term, woodlets are developing legs.  I caught a few...

Summer Solstice & Fathers Day on the same day. The solstice is celebrated all over the place. In many circles it is considered a "p...

My pond guy said I would have the new pump on Friday. He was correct. I just love it when things go like you planned.  Thank you Lilly Pad ~...

Before I tell you about Thursday there is something I wanted to share that I saw Wednesday and forgot to put in the previous post.  A black ...

Wednesday my 7500 GPH pump died.  No fanfare or noise.  It just quit.  The motor wouldn't turn... probably a bearing froze up.  In my mi...

What hopefully is the last batch of toadppoles has hatched.  Just before adding this post to the blog I checked on them and about half are f...

Yesterday, Monday June 15, 2009: It's official, the second batch of Woodhouse's Toad eggs has hatched.  As of the afternoon they are...

It's a beautiful morning.  The temperature is almost 60, the sky is mostly clear, a slight breeze from the southwest.  The coffee smells...

I don't know if "hatching" is the correct terminology for toadlet's emerging from the strings of toad eggs.  I'm think...

Prolific is the word that comes to mind when I think about the Woodhouse's Toads.  It took most of the day but we now have more egg str...

On Monday last we saw another snake.  This one was by the fence in the backyard and headed to the detention area on the east side of the hou...

Now here is something you don't see everyday, an 8 legged toad.  Can you believe this?   Was radiation the cause?  Maybe there is someth...

The previous post told the tale about Joe picking up breakfast.  Shortly after scoring food Joe disappeared to her safe haven under the brid...

All we need to complete this circus is a BIG TOP and an elephant or two.  I got up this morning before the sun, before Joe and even before...

Ginger and I lived in Corpus Christi, Texas prior to moving to Colorado.  We lived on an island where our back door opened to the Intercoast...

I was surprised to hear the Woodhouse's Toads singing their screechy song for the past 2 nights.  While they are certainly welcome I tho...

It was May 11th that I saw the toad egg strings. Then it was May 16th that we sighted all these little toadlet's swimming around. In the...

This is a Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly . There are lots of them flitting around our city. This lovely creature was visiting our garden and lu...

Looking closely at Joe I'm amazed to find the slim damsel of yesterday has turned so fat so fast. She is about to split a seam, burst a ...

A moment for the Armed Forces. The Veterans who put it on the line for each and every one of us in the USA as well as many citizens in forei...

It would appear the Woohouse's Toads have left the pond area.  I haven't heard their calls for almost a week now nor have I seen the...

Saturday morning. I meet up with Ginger out by the raised garden. We're talking about pruning a branch on the Granny Smith Apple Tree......

I've been checking No-Name Pond for toadlet's and to my surprise there are some there. The reason that is so amazing is the only wa...

I wanted to make a dramatic statement. You know, something that would jump out and grab your attention. Rivet you to the monitor. Tense your...

Once again it is time for your humble Frog Blogger to fall on his already bloody sword. On May 16, 2009 I was telling it wrong when I post...

WOW!   These little toadlet's have already spread to Joe's pond and the skimmer pond.  Some have moved very close to No-Name Falls w...

It occurred to me, when reading about the metamorphisis these toadlets will go through to become actual toads, that growing pains were a rea...

First it was tadpole. Then I remembered the term pollywog (polliwog). Now I see a term new to me. "Toadlet" was used to describe t...

I had prepared myself to write in this very blog about how, sometimes, toad eggs don't grow and develop into tadpoles. It could be cause...

What Came First?  The chicken or the egg?  The duck or the egg? Same question just different creatures.  Here is a news flash:  I have the a...

Tadpole seems to be the more popular name but is synonymous with polliwog. But I don't have any tadpoles in my pond. Yet! I was scouti...

I got to wondering about the difference between a frog and a toad. Besides being four letter words (and one even begins with an "F...

I eased my body from my recliner and headed for the kitchen. Coffee, I think, was my mission. As I passed the window looking out back I noti...

It was August 14, 2008 when I first mentioned the Woodhouse Toads in this very Frog Blog.  August 14 was my first post in the Frog Blog and ...

As spring augers winter out of the way on the high desert of Western Colorado the trees are leafing out, the nurseries are stocking up and o...