Good morning friends, look what I found yesterday. This is called a Horned Toad. There are 8 species of horned lizards found in the United States. The horned lizard (“Horny Toad”) is the Texas State Reptile. Horned toads hibernate or sleep through the winter  usually from late September to March and April. A female horned toad may lay a clutch of 30 eggs and the babies will hatch in five to nine weeks. The Texas and Mountain Short Horned Lizards are a protected species and it is illegal for anyone to take, sell, or keep them. Their favorite food is ants and they can eat over 200 a day, but they will eat grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, pill bugs, and spiders as well. When I found him he was laying here on this rock with a very fat belly next to a big ant hill and could have cared less that I was there, he never moved. I think if I remember correctly they can spit blood as a defence but not sure about that.

I had another great vacation day yesterday, the weather here is still beautiful! I did come down with some kind of crud last night, I had a fever and a cough which made for a rough night, feeling a little better now.

Hope all is well, see you tomorrow, bye, Barry