Cluster of Kids

Here's another picture from Lucky's Pond that I took a while back. It's been three months now since I rescued the tadpoles from our seasonal pond, and nearly all of my little friends have grown up and hopped away. Yet, there are still a few who refuse to grow up and don't even have legs yet! This happens sometimes when a tadpole stops its transformation to frog, but this usually happens if it's getting too cold, so I'm not really sure why they stopped their metamorphosis. When the days get close to freezing, I'll gather up the last of the babies into a bucket and bring them inside. I thought about putting a heater in the water but the pool is plastic and there are already problems with leaking and this will give me the chance to fix the pond and hopefully build a better, more permanent home for them.

By the way, you should see all the froggies everywhere! Steve and I laugh when we find them because we know most are from Lucky's Pond! They gather around the hose on our upper deck (how they know to climb up there, I couldn't tell you!), they find their way into our shop and arrange themselves on the sink, wall, and faucet, and we find them hopping around on the floor there too! What fun to know that I helped to raise so many of these happy little hoppers! :) :)