Last summer Seth decided to turn my perennial beds into a vegetable garden by planting and harvesting watermelons (from the seeds in HIS piece of watermelon) a pumpkins. 

This year, he decided to *raise* (as he puts it) Toads from teeny wheeny tadpoles.  We are blessed with 9 acres of woods behind our house in the suburbs where we do many of our nature walks. 

Our new little duck family in the pond out back.

Seth discovers the tadpoles

Seth found some in a pond that comes and goes through the rainy seasons and on one of our nature walks we found tons of tadpoles.  We later learned that the black ones are toads.  We got out our handy dandy Handbook of Nature Studies.  We used an old aquarium and got pond water and rocks so they could eat the algae off of them.  Ever since then (May 24th) Seth has gone out and *raised* them on our deck. 

A couple days ago, we discovered tiny tiny toads!  We have only had to have one burial so far because we didn't have enough land.  We learned that after their legs start appearing, they lose their gills and grow lungs...so he quickly went out back to build up one side of the aquarium.  Thus, the happy results...

Some babies left to be raised!

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