I know I have probably been driving you guys crazy about the rain here--but at least I am off the birds, JODIE! LOL
But, I was looking at the pictures Rod took over the last couple of weeks and he had some pretty good photos of what we have been experiencing. Yes, 22 inches for the month of May! We needed every bit of it, but, we were starting to go crazy not seeing the sun so much.
And then, one of the days it didn't rain so much I happened to look in a pail that I had out on the patio and I noticed several black things in the water. They looked like little tiny twigs or pieces of bark. I didn't think anything of it, but, I decided not to dump the water until it got dry again and I could use it to water the plants.
A couple of days after that, I saw that the bucket was FULL of little tadpoles swimming around! These are not good pictures, but, I think in the top picture you can make out one in the upper left corner. Most of the black and brown in the bottom of the bucket is dirt and sand--I had used the water to wash my hands one day. The tiny little flecks of black are all tadpoles!
This bottom picture you can see them a little clearer. After doing some research, I am gonna drop one kibble of dog food in the bucket a day, move it into a little cooler spot and hope we have whatever the stage after tadpoles is in our bucket. I wish we could keep them in the yard--frogs eat lots of mosquitos...but...they also like swimming in our pool and usually don't make it out alive. So, Jodie, now I will be obsessed with these tadpoles...and it takes 2-3 months for them to become frogs!!!
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