Our Toad

Hi...It's me...Annie Grace...

This is our toad.........

This latest development has me unable to sleep. A typical evening in...at first. Dinner....Wisker Lickens....sleep while she reads...wake up....bite her hand because she is crowding my space...she reads...looks at me...takes off her glasses because she only reads with them, gazes at me and says "Annie....you look very happy". What I look is TIRED....stop talking and read...we are NOT bonding tonight. With a very heavy sigh that I am suppose to feel guilty about she says "well let's go to bed after I say good night to The Toad. Book and glasses go down, she gets up from the couch (groans when she gets up...because she is old) walks out to the back patio, comes back in and says "let's go". I HAD to ask! What were you doing? It seems (please keep in mind this is coming from HER not me!) since she moved here..... there is a toad that comes every summer to the back patio and when she goes outside it comes out of the dark and sits near her feet and is not scared of her. I am wondering...VOLUNTARILY he sits with you????? Clearly the intelligence level of a toad has dropped in my eyes....RUN!!! She claims it is the same toad every year and now he is huge. I am suspect. She then shows me a picture she just took....of The Toad. So I am now wondering...how does she think it's the same toad? With at least 10 lawn mowing's a season...for 9 years....In 90 cuts he has not been shredded????????? I really don't see....

1. Why he would survive 90 cuts

2. The amount of predators in the area......he's whole feast....look at his belly!!!

3. 9 winters...what ...does he fly to Miami?

4. Why he is NOT afraid of her

5. How you could think it's the same toad?????????

6. Why he would actually want to come out of hiding to be with her. If only I found a good hiding spot!!!

So......I sasked if perhaps I could go outside with you and see him? (Clearly a ploy to escape..) She said ......No.

Now I am up all night peering out the back window hoping I can talk with him....to educate him....maybe lure him inside...with flies.....to help him escape....or eat him.