Worms, worms, worms…

Slowly but surely, I’ve been clearing the weeds away from the vegetable garden.  It’s not that big and it shouldn’t take that long, but it has.  Anyways, got home before Alice, who promised to make dinner, so off to the garden.  Pulling weeds and tilling soil with the kids.  Soil is everywhere.

Then they discovered the worms…

Lots of earthworms in the dirt, and they decided they’d start collecting them in a cup.  They probably collected 50 or so when all was said and done.

What I found most interesting was that all the kids were more than happy to pick up the worms with their bare hands.  All three of them — no big deal.  I used to do that as a kid all the time too… I guess there’s simply nothing scary about an earthworm.

When dinner was finally ready, the kids brought the cup full of worms to show mommy – who was promptly grossed out – and then Nicholas dumped the worms out on to the deck.  Daddy scooped up the ones which hadn’t fallen through the gaps in the decking boards and tossed ‘em all back into the garden to be collected another day.