Toads!!! This Forum section looked lonely :)

Had a chuckle remembering me and 2 other lil girl friends when we were really young (ages 5 - 9). We ran Lindsay, Ontario, Canada's only toad hospital for a few summers. Really quite a complicated set-up really (read large furniture box) with wards for various imagined illnesses and a sadly unused maternity ward. Our neighbourhood had those basement window wells and the poor toads fell in there an awful lot (and weren't fast enough to avoid our assistance I suspect now). Combined with a few cat attacked toads and we were in business!

We also ran weekly caterpillar races (my dad once accidentally stepped on my prize winner Speedy and I swear I was mad for a week!) Speedy was great on the back stretch LOL.

I still love the wierdest critters apparently which buys me some much needed "coolness" points with my kids.


~~Joanna~~

Ah yes, the gold mine of the window well.

The elementary school that is down the road from me has some quite large window wells, and when I was younger I'd ride my bike down there and make the rounds, checking all of the window wells. Toads were a common find, as were mice and moles (which I left alone). One time, I was down there and the groundskeeper yelled at me 'get out of there, young man!' lol.. I don't think he expected to find a 7 year old girl down in the window well searching out slimy things.

:)