Sunday, May 30, 2021

Tadpoles

 Every year, hopeful tree frogs lay their eggs in the water on our pool cover.

Every year, thousands of tadpoles hatch.
Every year, I rescue some of them before we open the pool and try to raise them to full froghood.
Every year, every single tadpole I rescue dies ignominiously.
This year, I decided I was not even going to try.


We have so so so so many tadpoles on our pool cover.

It has been cold and Kevin has been super busy doing some work on the RV, so we haven't opened the pool yet.


Today I discovered that many of the tadpoles are growing back legs.

If we wait another week, maybe they will be mature enough to live without water.

In which case, it will be like another plague in Egypt. Hundreds and thousands of frogs!

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