Toadlets of Tucson
4 min readAug 30, 2020
Our pool had turned into a swamp. On July 23, 2020, we’d finished draining, cleaning and painting it, and were just starting to fill it back up when the thunder came…and with it, the toads. About 8–10 smallish spotted toads frolic’d through the night, and in the morning when we moved them to safer locales, they left behind a lovely gelatinous mass of floating eggs.
And thus, began our saga.
