Retarded Toads

We had about ten days of rain recently and so our gravel-and-dirt drive and turnaround had some generous mud puddles. I was outside working when out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw some frayed and ravelled strands of carpet or perhaps yarn.

Upon closer inspection, I realized these were frog or toad eggs. A Google image search soon told me these were toad eggs, not frog eggs. Toads' eggs reside inside a protective tubelike casing rather than a single gelatinous blob.
Below is a closeup of the above mass.

Eggs from a second puddle:
The eggs aren't always in a corkscrew tube. Sometimes the tube lies out straight:

Most of these are worth clicking on to enlarge. I wanted to "rescue" the eggs, but my husband observed that perhaps the desire to lay one's eggs in a temporary mud puddle are some genetics that shouldn't be passed on. So I left them alone. About three or four days later they were completely dried up.