Frogs in the yard

Dusk is quickly falling, the animals are settling down. It's warm, so we open a few windows inside the house. Time for bed....

And time for the frog chorus to begin. The sounds of peeping and croaking, the conversations of animals that hide during the day, and come out at night to meet and greet.

A few summers ago, I never saw any frogs around our house. Nothing at all. Then, we put a second pond in the back yard, and we finally had a frog come visit our yard. Just one or two, hiding in the garden among all the plants.

This year, we have the third pond, and far more hiding places for the frogs during the day. At night, I can clearly hear frogs in both our ponds. Talking back and forth.

So what does it mean? Well, it means we are growing a thriving eco-system. It means that using no chemicals in our yard is WORKING because fragile animals are able to survive. It means at night, I go to sleep to the sounds of frogs singing. Sing on, my green friends. Sing on.

Ewhh! Worms!

It's late, the news is on, and time for bed. I drag myself out of my chair, shoo the dogs out to the garage, convince the ducks that the "pool" is closing, and put them in their coop for the night.

As I am walking them to the coop, with the flashlight, I notice all these little darts of movement in the grass. What the heck is it?? Worms, of course!

Oh my goodness. There are like hundreds of worms all over my backyard. It's Wormy Woodstock out there tonight, with the recent rain, I guess the worms think it's time to party at Wendi's house. I couldn't take a step without almost creaming (literally) one of them on my slipper. (Why, oh why did I wear slippers out to puth the ducks to bed instead of actual SHOES?!)

I mean, I guess I should be grateful that there are so many of them. Of course, my first thought was "aren't ducks supposed to EAT those things?!" I even went into their coop to check, and there were a bunch of worms, just hanging out on the top of the gravel. It's nuts.

So, if anyone wants to collect worms to go fishing with, come on over! I have plenty to go around. But YOU have to catch them. Yuck.