Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Summer 2013, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I tried to do some gardening today--but it was just too hot...
I was sweating like a pig....Planted a couple things--then watered my whole garden and that was that....

Hey! I found a very nicely colored Toad snuckered in the corner of the top step of my basement entrance.
Nice brown one--with some darker spots or something... He looked fat...but don't they all when they are resting?
I found a Slug--and put it in front of the Toad,,,he woke up and started "smelling" it with some flicks
of his tongue--then gobbled it up in one second...
Later while planting--I found a fat earthworm--and offered it to Mr. Toad as well...
He snagged it--and, as he was swallowing it--he was cleaning all the dirt off of it with his front legs.

Anyone know what kind of a Toad it is? What is he/she likely to do next?
I tried to build him a "home" by putting an old clay pot on a small pile of mulch in the lower corner
of the landing--IF he chooses to go there--I hope he likes it. dark...cool...protected...
but he would have to go up 4 steps to get to my garden.

So much for the excitement in my life for the day......;o) G.