Our First Nature Club Meeting

| May 10, 2009

We absolutely had a blast at our first Nature Club meeting!! We visited a gorgeous nature park where we walked on a long trail winding down to a bottomlands where we visited a huge creek for play in and around. I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to see kids and parents together enjoying [...]

Toad Tadpoles….Again!

| April 30, 2009

Yep, we’re at it again. We were diligent in looking almost every day, and this time when we found them they had just hatched in a vernal pool near the creek. We gathered some up and took them home. They are only a few days old, but my have they grown already!         [...]

American Toad Habitat

| August 1, 2008

After our wonderful experience of hatching and raising toads, we were so thrilled that a couple of days ago Alex was able to find a medium sized American Toad in our yard.  I handed him some instructions on how to make an American Toad habitat that I found HERE.  He did a fantastic job of [...]

Tadpoles Final Update – Day #48

| June 14, 2008

Wouldn’t you know it, I sure did, that all but one of our toad tadpoles had turned into tiny toads by the time we got back from vacation!  But what a blessing that this one little tadpole held out for us!  My very good friend Kari was tadpole-sitting them for us and had to release them [...]

Tadpole Update, One More Photo

| June 3, 2008

One more photo before we leave!  You can see their legs now!  Click to full size.  Back to packing!      

Tadpole Update #6 ~ Day 36

| June 2, 2008

The update for our toad tadpoles is coming a little early this time because…we have LEGS!  Several of the tadpoles, seemlingly overnight, grew little tiny back legs!  I so wish I had a HD camera so that you could see the little “paper-thin” legs swishing around when they swim!LOL  But I think you may only [...]