For those that enjoyed the capture and watching the biological change of tadpoles as they made their transition into frogs this past summer, we have a problem! If you reference my posting of August 24th of this year, I made an attempt to warn everyone. The incident occurred while I was shopping with my grandson, "Butch" at the local Safeway store. His frog escaped from his pocket. It was found several days later by a consumer and reported to the Department of Health.

Evidently, "Froggy" was a busy little guy because now we have a plague that has spread over a ten state area making dozens of people sick with one confirmed fatality to date. The cause of this is the E-coli bacteria found in bags of spinach from the local supermarkets. E-coli bacteria is created from animal manure. All packaged spinach has been ordered to be pulled from the shelves of markets.

Being a typical kid, "Butch does not like spinach, but I do not think he would go to extreme measures such as this to get it out of circulation. The one thing that I find ironic about E-coli bacteria, if it is spread by animal manure, isn't that the same stuff that is spread in vegetable gardens? I can remember hauling wheelbarrow loads of "horse manure" to my mothers garden. Less than 36 hours ago, after having a dismal garden this year, I was telling Golden Granny that next year, we will find someone with horses and get some good "horse s_ _ _" for the garden. I may give this concept additional thought, but I am also going to watch out for frogs from now on.