Frog Blog AKA Toad Jam

Frog blog March 12

Many Peace Corps volunteers adopt dogs or cats as pets to keep them company on the long nights they live as shut-ins. We did not have to go looking for pets as the guttural toads have adopted our modest flat as home. After a month of chasing full-sized Daddy toads we now have baby toads surprising us in the shower and popping out from under the furniture. When we walked in our flat after a weekend in our shopping town, a very still toad was sitting on top of a New Yorker that had been tossed on the easy chair. When grabbed to join his pals out on the lawn, he seemed very light. First case of death by New Yorker desiccation!! The toad should have looked for juicier reading. The hope is that the toad invasion is a seasonal condition and when winter comes they will move back to the creaks and springs where they are appreciated. Colleagues at Mountain High have suggested extermination through by dumping salt unto their flesh but this seems like drastic treatment for fairly harmless roommates. However old people do not like surprises in the night and the toads require demand that one wear slippers when getting up. Toad jam is not fun and the babies deserve a better place to grow up than a hospital business office!