The Worms.

I like worms. They are totally gross, but I still have a healthy respect for them. They are selfless and peace loving little animals. So cute and pink, eating their way through garbage and leaving their wonderful poops so plants can have a better life. It's very nice.

A couple of years ago, when we were still living in our condo, I bought myself an indoor worm composter. It was a pretty simple set up, and I thought it was cool, cool, cool. I did really well with it actually. I tended them daily and made sure they had enough food and water, and by golly, they sure ate up those kitchen scraps! But then I got busy, and I forgot about them. Days turned into weeks and then I was too filled with guilt to even lift the lid to see the extent of horror that I had caused.

That was 2 years ago. The light of day had not touched their poor little corpses till Thursday, when my sister called and asked for me to pass it on to her.

Actually, when I did finally lift the lid, there was little evidence that they had actually ever existed. They must have just totally shriveled up. I guess I was expecting Pompeii or something. Anyways, my son and I dumped it onto our compost heap and filled it with new dirt, some leaves and about 50 hand picked red wigglers.

You know where I found all those worms? In my compost. It was amazing! It was a squirming metropolis! It was pretty disgusting . . . I kept having to reassure myself that they all weren't going to jump out en masse and burrow into my face. Ew.

There were actually more, but by the time I pulled out the camera most of them had burrowed down.

So, good luck Sister! I am so proud of her giving this worm thing a go. Up until a couple of weeks ago she didn't even recycle, and now she's composting?! Who rocks?? She does! Yeah!

Since she is going to do such a fantastic job with this, I have invited her to be a guest blogger so that we can all stay updated with the status of her new project. Graciously, she has accepted this invitation and so I will look forward to her upcoming posts!

In conclusion, I guess the moral of the story is: support mother nature, and be kind to worms - we are all in this together.

And it's never too late to recycle.

Peace out.