Worm Party

So Mom got on one of her kicks again. This time it's vermicomposting. That's a fancy way of saying that worms are supposed to eat your yard and kitchen waste, and then we collect the worm poop for our garden. Dad is convinced the whole operation is going to stink. Mom is starting to think so too. Oh well, it will hopefully at least be a fun learning process for us! We bought our plastic bin and then went off to Ed's Chum Bucket to get our wrigglers. We started off with only 100, I guess they multiply like, well, worms! Mom is a little concerned we have too much waste in the bin and not enough worms, but time will tell. We had a lot of dried yard waste to get rid of. I had fun putting each worm in the bin, one by one and telling him to have a happy little feast and make lots of poop. We covered the whole job up with a black tarp. Worms like it dark. Hopefully the little buggers stay happy in wormy town and don't escape out of the ventilation holes or we may have a problem!

So Dad has been gone on his work trip for 6 days now. We're halfway there to having him home! It's been hard on Mom sleep-wise, but really the week has flown by. We've been super busy with activities and our nice neighbors invited us to a party last night, so that helped break up the week. Zach and I have been really well-behaved for Mom so she isn't stressed out about that at all. She says it's kind of nice not having to cook so much, do so much laundry and keep the house picked up all the time. I think she's enjoying slacking off a bit!

I'm very sad about the oil spill right now and the flooding in TN. We have some family that are directly affected by both. Let's all hope that things get better soon and the poor animals are not in too much danger. I was crying about the dolphins last night. Mom better start filtering how much news she feeds me!

Hasta la pasta my raviolis!