Another quite wonderful day here, around 20C (68F) and almost no wind at all. Those are the days I hate to work 🙂 We really should have our vacation when spring has sprung because it is now when we enjoyes the nicer and warmer weather as most. Then again we’ll only have one more of these wonderful days before it changes and the temperatures will drop down to 10C (50F) and we’ll get rain as well. I guess I should be happy that I don’t live further north because they’ll get snow and snow fall in late April is just depressing 🙂 🙂

I don’t mind some rain though because I can see from day to day how much lower the water levels are in the creeks and ditches and this is not the time to have low water leves because now is the time frogs and other amphibians lay their eggs. When I moved here I hade a very shallow pond outside my cottage, in the cow pasture and in warm spring evenings I could hear hundreds of frogs quacking there. Then the farmer decided that he should drain that pond so all frogs disappeared. I miss that sound a lot. Talking about amphibians though, today at work when I were driving in materials to paint I saw something move on the floor. It was a toad 🙂 Toads really shouldn’t walk in there but they do a couple of times every year. One could think that all the powdered paint that lies on the floor would make it walk elsewhere but in they go.

So I jumped out of the fork lift, picked it up and carried it out to one of the forgotten gardens that belongs to the factory and placed in the shadows behind a small spruce. I do hope it doesn’t continue on its travel because roads are never far away and I really don’t want it to die. I pass a big pond or small lake on my way to work and this time of year I really have to slow down there because lots of amphibians pass that road to get to the pond/lake. I almost drove over two on my way home today. I usually have several toads in my garden every summer, they like to stay close to the root zone where there is some water but also lots of shade so they don’t dry out. Back in the days old Hector chewed on one of the smaller ones and all toads are poisonous so he started to drool something insanely.

So I had to drive to the vet almost 50 km away. Hector drooled so much that he had to have his head outside the window and the entire car was covered with dog drool when we arrived. People outside the vet laughed like crazy 🙂 🙂 Hector got a shot of something and finally stopped to drool so back home again where he naturally found what was left of the toad so back to the vet we went 🙂 🙂 🙂 Toads are actually so poisonous that animals who eat them can die, had I known that back then I wouldn’t have driven to the vet so calm and carefully as I did 🙂 🙂 🙂

I’m tired as always so I’ll risk a nights sleep by having at least one more cup of tea even if it is after 4pm 🙂 It just isn’t the same to have a cup of cocoa 🙂

Have a great day!