I am amazed that a pound of worms are available in the mail. Then again, when one can buy ants in the mail, I guess worms are possible too. But taken at face value… worms traveling through the mail. It’s like they are worming their way through. What a delight!

Also the idea of a POUND of worms is interesting. We normally don’t think of worms having any weight. They are just worms. Worms are worms. They don’t weight anything, right? But a pound of them! A pound of wiggly jiggling swerming dirt-loving joy.

I like worms. I want to find artwork and illustrations of worms now.

I just made a blog post with 36 images of worms from flickr. It’s scheduled to appear on my blog on Wednesday, September 2. (Yes, i schedule posts—gotta have a new creative idea every weekday!)

You can preview the 36 images of wormy fun at: http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/5088_0_3_0_C/

(oh i also copied and pasted some of the text from my previous comment into the blog post too)

I forgot about threadless. Great source for wonderful illustrations. They had 27 great illustrations of worms. They are now added to the post in the previous comment. It’s a wormfest with a total of 63 delightful worms.

I wanted to cheer ALL your to-do s (they are all so good), but I wanted to warn you of my experience with this one.

(Like so many others, apparently) I wanted a worm bin. I wanted mine because I thought it would be great to have a place to compost that was close to the house & worked faster than the larger bin in the yard (also I admit I saw one on some cool Aussie eco show). And of course, I do love worms. But…

not this much. I found that the reason it’s called a worm bin is because it is not about the composting. It’s ALL about the worms. and the worms need lots of attention. They needed more attention than my outside compost bin. They needed watering; they preferred my discards chopped into worm-size bites; they like things a Certain Temperature. These expensive red worms you order through the mail are sort of like neurotic pedigree worms, not like the lovely uncomplicated, simple-loving-life earthworms you dig up by accident.

SO, In the end, I gave up. I mean I go on vacations and really who am I going to ask to watch my worm farm? It did came down to me or the worms and I won. (I set the survival-of-the-fittest worms free in the big compost bin. Hopefully they evolved… And I would have sent you their expensive house, if you would have sprung for the postage.)