Crapaud House (prounced Crapo) Down with Toads

I live in the house of the singing toad. That is to say we have two ponds infested with creepy toads who live to breed and sing while they work. Then their toadpoles hatch they become parasitic and molest our lovely goldfish ( and it is becoming a vicious cycle we are trying to break by destroying their eggs): Toad's in the road so to speak; at least at our house. I used to love the sound of the rain toad but now it means war to me. When they have been out singing at night we wake up cringing knowing we have to be down at the ponds in the morning to wrench the eggs from the pond before they start to hatch. The toadpoles are such parasites it is impossible to imagine how nasty and harmful they are to the fish but as my friend Helen said about them, " I find it hard to expect much good out of anything born in slime".

When we bought this house we thought we could call it what the previous owners named it but their French was bad and they named it: Maison Coeur De Mour (which should have been Maison Coeur D'Amour) . Perhaps it started out as their little love nest but in the end it was definitely not the House of the loving heart. I can sympathize in a way my own French is merci -less - ly horrid whilst my husband is a native born Frenchman so I am the object of much hilarity at home. When we got around to trying out names for the house I thought Maison de Crapaud (toad) might be good but Folks in Texas whould call us Crap-o House which has not so good connotations.

Back to square one without passing GO and we come to the next name on the list: Curdmor (which is how Texans probably would say Coeur D'amor) and easily transfixed into Crudmor. Not sure on that one all the names sound "crapaudy" .

Did you like the pound cake recipe? Perhaps I should have added a few toads for the Wiccan piece de resistance (not).....Blogger published it about 20 times and I had to go in and delete them all one at a time; probaby my karma for getting rid of the last batch of toad eggs. One recipe for the pound cake is enough try some and you will like having it around for breakfast or snacks.

Well enough for today back to listing on Ebay. Don't take any wooden nickles, don't tug on Superman's cape, and don't let anyone crapaud on you.

Bubble bubble toil and trouble: If anyone is going to make a full cauldron and already has enough eye of newt but you are lacking the "toad" part of the recipe then send me an email. We are running a special on toad this week.