poof! 1,000 insects gone… just like that!

Jul 8, 2026

Did you know that toads eat around 1,000 insects every day? That includes flies and mosquitos, etc., so in rural Indiana in summertime we need all the toads we can get. I’ve dumped more than one chlorine degraded corpse from the pool’s skimmer basket already this year, but I happened upon a smart toad so I took his photo.

bug eating toad

It’s true that the less you do, the less you want to do.

This “do nothing” gig has put my brain into overdrive. Not only do I think of the things I need to do but can’t, but I’m also conjuring up stupid thoughts from somewhere. Like… I spend less in a month on my haircare than I do on Hugo’s special dog food in a day. 🙄

Nobody cares about that, not even me. Yet there I was, calculating the costs like it matters.

And finally, doing nothing every single day is making everyone — except for the toads — lazy.

Sleepy Hugo

Tomorrow is the day that I hoped I could graduate to physical therapy. Today, I’m on the fence insofar as the direction I should go. Not really much better, I haven’t decided if I should go back to OrthoIndy for an MRI — or try moving forward to PT in hopes that will help. At least that gives me something “real” to contemplate instead of focusing on other crazy things that make zero difference at all.


Now you know: Superman was originally from Cleveland, but was changed to Metropolis when the series became a comic book.