Johanna Speaks

Coyote Peterson is in Tottori Prefecture in Japan. He is trying to find a Japanese toad. He found one!

Coyote Peterson said he does not know if the Japanese toad is a male or a female that he caught.

He said the females grow larger than the males.

The Japanese toad eats any " Arthropod" or " Crustacean" that they can come across in forests. Crustacean means any insects that have sheals like crawdads and shrimp and stuff like that. Arthropod means the same thing I think.

Coyote Peterson said the Japanese toad is always on the move. It does not really hop it only hops if it feels like it going to be eaten or something. The frog was fine on Coyote Petersons' hands and it did not look like it wanted to hop at all it was just walking nicely on his hands. 

Coyote Peterson said the Japanese toad has great eyesight in the dark and during the day. It does not have really any pretenders because its skin is very toxic. So if a predator comes and tries to eat the frog it can smell very bad so the pretenders would go away. And can spray this white toxic stuff. If it gets into your mouth or eyes, what it would do is if it sprays you in the eyes then your eyes will hurt a lot and it will be itchy for a while. If it gets into your mouth it will taste very bad and I think it will hurt your mouth a lot. I would never want to do that at all.

My choir performance is next week! I can't wait. Last Tuesday we practiced in a church. We are going to perform there. I forgot what the church is called. The building is very big! It's way bigger than our church. Our church is half the size of that church. And there are so many seats. I think it was a three-story church!

When I first got there we practiced all the songs that we are going to do for the performance. After that Mrs.Doomer let us outside for a half hour to play while she was working with the Senior choir. Two adults had to watch us make sure everybody was nice to each other and made sure that we were entertained and nobody would get lost.

 There were snacks outside for us on a crate. My friend Sophie brought snacks too. She brought these little chocolate stick things. I forgot what they are called. But it was really good! Some other kids brought snacks too. Only a few people brought snakes.

 When Mrs.Doomer said she was ready to work with us know she let the Seiner choir go outside and play while we were going to practice singing and we kept doing the same thing where the Junior choir goes outside while the Seiner choir works with Mrs.Doomer and then we would switch. And then Mrs.Doomer said she wanted the Seiner and the Junior choir to come and we would practice altogether on one song that we had to learn for the performance. It was " He's Got The Whole World in His Hands" with " This Is My Fathers World".I really like that song!

We had so much fun!

My brother Gideon saw some foxes! In our backyard! They were grey foxes. I followed the foxes a little bit and then I found their den! I heard baby fox noises from the bush that is down the street and a little bit down the hill. I didn't see the baby foxes but I heard them. When baby foxes are calling it sounds like they are yelping. Then I saw the dad coming to the mom and I think he was bringing them food or something. 

Here is a picture of a California grey fox:

The face of the grey fox kind of looks like a raccoon to me.

It was really cool to see grey foxes in real life!

Yesterday I had a little performance for my choir at "The Touch of Heaven". Elder people live there. Our choir did four songs for them. The seiner choir did three songs it was really good. One of the songs that we did was "The Lost is Found". I had a little solo for the first part of the song. I was a little scared at first but I get used to it. 

My friend Sophie also had a solo part in the song too. Three other people had solos too. They are great singers! My friend Sophie is a really good singer too.  

The song's that we did was "Shalom Chaverim". The second song that we did was" King of Kings And Lord Lords". The third one was " The Lost is Found ". And we also did Kyrie. It was lots of fun!

After that, we went to a park with goodies to eat.Mrs.Doomer said everybody can bring snacks at the park and lots of people did bring lots of snacks. It was super good. There were different types of cookies and there were different types of juice and popsicles and everything. 

Here are some video’s when we were at " The Touch of Heaven".

Coyote Peterson is in Costa Rica. He is going to try and find lots of different types of frogs.

He found a female Stream Frog! Female Stream Frogs are larger than males. Coyote Peterson said the male frogs are usually the ones that you would find more because the females are more hidden. But Coyote Peterson got a female instead of a male.

The color of the Stream Frog is a very dark orange that almost looks brownish with a few green spots. On the belly side, it's bright orange with big yellow spots. On the legs, it's a dark orange with yellow spots. It's really pretty! Coyote Peterson let it go and then kept searching for more frogs.

Coyote Peterson found a Dirt/Rain Frog! He got another female frog. The female Dirt/Rain frogs grow bigger than the males.

The Dirt/Rain Frog is very strong that it jumped away from Coyote Peterson. But Coyote Peterson got it back. And then he let it go and went back searching again for more frogs.

Coyote Peterson found a Splendid Leaf Frog! 

He said the Splendid Leaf Frog doesn't often jump. It likes to walk more than jumping.

The Splendid Leaf Frog has sticky toes. And they can spread out their legs so much that they can practically glide themselves. 

The color of the Splendid Leaf frog is all green at the top and on the belly side all bright orange with black stripes that almost looks like a tiger. Coyote Peterson said the Splendid Leaf Frog can see very well in the dark. He also said he can't believe he found a Splendid Leaf frog because the frogs live high up in trees and almost never comes down so he was really lucky to see one. I wish I could see a Splendid Leaf frog in real life it would be so cool if I did be able to see one.