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I heard the toads singing outside my office windows tonight for the first time this spring. Our house sitter said that they sang while we were in Florida, but then it got drastically cold again, and they went back to wherever they’d been hiding. But tonight, they’re back, and maybe spring will stay this time. We’re all really ready for the weather to stay warm. It was quite a shock to the system to leave warm, sunny Florida only to arrive back in St. Louis with snow on the ground. That was only two weeks ago. We went out tonight with flashlights and counted around the water garden. We have nine toads and one really big frog, but it’s not a bullfrog. I know what that looks like, but it is a frog. I’ll be looking him up in my identification books tomorrow, but for tonight it’s time for us to go to bed. We’ll leave the chilly spring night to the serenading toads, and the silent frog. Oh, the toads are Southern Chorus Toads, if the recording we have of their song is correct.