Every morning I take my dogs for a stroll around lower Columbia City. If it’s been raining and the road is wet, I wear a headlamp so that I can step over any worms that I pass along the route.
I worry about the worms. So many of them get smashed by the cars that pass by. Others become bird breakfast. And the rest? What happens to them?
I would love to scoop the little buggers up and relocate them to my garden, but I haven’t done so for a few reasons:
- I’m worried that they may have worm germs that I don’t want in my garden.
- I’m worried there may be many different kinds of worms and that I might get worm war in my raised beds.
- I’m worried that the worms are actually happy where they area and don’t need my assistance.
- I’m concerned about injuring the worms during collection and/or transport.
- I’m worried the neighbors will think I’m nuts.
Rick says that I really am the only person he has ever known who worried so much about the worms on the road. I have a hard time believing that. Surely there are other people out there who worry about such things… right?
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Sorry, I don’t worry about worms. If I find a bunch under something I’ve recently moved (like a pot on my concrete patio), I will scoop them up and dump them in a raised bed, but that’s about it. I move worms from one place to another (say, a new raised bed) all the time and don’t think anything of it.
You’ve heard the old ditty…step on a crack, break your mother’s back?! Well it’s the same for me and the worms! Can’t do it…can’t step on ‘em. Even worry about the cars that will surely run over them…However, haven’t resorted to picking them up and moving them yet! Now THAT would be NEUROTIC!