Last year, my mom retired from working. She'd been a church secretary at three different churches over almost a 20 year period (not at the same time, of course). The last church is actually the church we attend...which is good and bad. The good is that she knows everybody...the bad is that everybody knows her and she worked ALL THE TIME. Seriously...at least 50 hours a week...and most weeks more. So, when she retired and finally got her replacements trained (yes it took 2 women to replace my mother!), all of the sudden she had a lot of free time. I guess when you go from working so much to not really having anyone counting on you...it's hard to know what to do. My dad is still working...my sis had not yet had her baby...Alyson was still in daycare since she hadn't started Kindergarten yet...Dylan was too old to really need her...let's just say she had a hard time and felt really lost for a while. Not to mention the fact that she was dealing with a serious case of anemia...so she didn't feel well...
Enter in her tadpoles. My mom has the softest heart. She doesn't want to see any living thing hurt or injured and she definitely doesn't want to be the person who hurts or injures the living thing. My parents had a "simple set" pool that they had drained and then decided it was a goner. So in early Spring, the pool was laying on the ground, but had places where puddles formed. Evidently, frogs laid eggs in the puddles and all of the sudden they had hundreds of tadpoles! So, very carefully, mom moved as many tadpoles as possible into Dylan's old turtle sandbox, where many of them lived very happily throughout the first part of the summer. Here are a few pics...
She enjoyed those little tadpoles so much last year. And so did the rest of us...watching them change and become frogs...they were so cute!
So, tonight we were at their house to pick up some stuff and she & dad had been working out in the yard. Evidently they had collected rain water in the pool cover on their new pool...and wa-la...more tadpoles. So, we emptied bucket by bucket of water from the pool cover, saving as many tadpoles as possible...back in the little green turtle sandbox turned tadpole habitat. There's probably still a few left (we got tired of trying to bail the water)...so we will probably have to work on it a bit more this weekend! I'll try to keep you posted on the progress of the tadpoles!
By the way...if you are reading my blog...I sure would like to know it! :)
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