Toad chronicles

Somehow this blog has become more about toads than baking.  I keep coming across the biggest fattest toads while I'm gardening.  The best place to find toads is in the woods while it's raining.  If you can stand to go on a hike in the rain in Valley Green, as I did earlier this summer with a couple of friends, you will literally trip over all of the toads that come out to absorb the water.  Toads don't actually live in water, they like rain, moist soil, and shallow puddles.  They need water to lay eggs and for their tadpoles to develop but they aren't water-bound like frogs are.

This guy was hiding in the dirt where I was pulling out some ivy ground-cover.  He jumped up on a rock and sat there for about an hour.  He has kind of a grumpy looking face doesn't he?   

Grump