Think I'll Go Eat Worms...

Or at least poke them.

This is what my daughter and I do when it's pouring outside, like it is tonight.

We have a crop of night crawlers, or large earthworms out in our front yard. Every time it rains, they poke their head (tail?) out from their holes and lay on the sidewalk. If you go and poke them, they quickly retract inside the hole.

Okay, odd tho it may be, I sometimes debate what to do when the rain washes a bunch of these out on the sidewalk. Do I let the birds have 'em? Or do I look like a weirdo and throw them back in the soil, so they can do their nitrate and churn the nutrients thing.

As a walk-off, here is the story on the giant, and rare, earthworm from eastern Washington.

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia