The world has changed from when I was a child.  Today, it seems like we are obsessed with cleanliness.  Nobody wants to get their hands dirty.  Nitrile gloves and hand sanitizers are standard fare everywhere you go.  God forbid that we might come into contact with “germs”.  The problem with this strategy is that all of this over-sanitizing is actually making us more sensitive to pathogens and one of the simplest solutions is to get some dirt on our hands or even in our mouths.  Dirt is actually good for us... 

After having so much fun last week talking about Robins, I thought, let’s explore tree frogs.  After all, what could go wrong?  Turns out there are a lot of interesting facts about these amphibians...

One of the many signs of spring, besides the annoying ritual of “springing ahead” with our clocks, is the return of flocks of American robins.  While I saw a couple of pairs back in February, it was just this week that I observed multiple numbers of them in my garden.  This got me thinking about how robins know when to return to the Pacific Northwest and after a little research I learned some intriguing facts...