Toadally Cool!

So I was walking in from the back field just at deep dusk, thinking of how nice it was that it had finally rained again after so long a dry spell. I was thinking how I wished I would see a toad because as the climate has changed her with global warming we hardly see any like when I was a kid and my children have hardly seen any toads. As I thought this I walked around the corner from the driveway to the porch and looked down

there was a toad and I was in mid stride...

my foot landed on the board ramp and it hopped  from about a foot away landing right onto my foot and stopped...

...but of course I couldn't run to get the kids, so I yelled and yelled till they finally came and brought the camera.

He stayed there for about 5 minutes  looking up at us, turning his head from side to side, then hopped off and looked around at the circle of us.

Toadlly Cool!