Shiny, Happy Worms!

Whew! Worm crisis averted! A month or so ago I noticed that my little worm commune wasn't doing so well. Their home looked "funky" for want of a better word. They looked puny and they weren't producing worm water (worm pee for those of you uneducated on worm composting).

Well, they look all shiny and happy and slippery and satisfied now. I pulled off their old cardboard covering, took out the old egg shells they hadn't finished and recirculated their bedding. Then I searched through my refrigerator for delicious worm treats. They got strawberries, apples, green beans, zucchini and other delectable foods. Then covered them with nice strips of Stillwater Newspress. I checked a week later and they seemed to be no worse, just not a lot better. Each week however, they got bigger, stronger and FASTER! Now, I will pit my speedy worms against anybody's worms.

It's amazing how attached I have become to the little guys.

Political Green-ness

I tease because I care, really.

When I was young, I was known to have quite a funky shoe collection. I was the first person in Bixby, Oklahoma with checkerboard Vans (made popular by Spiccoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High) and wore gray, suede, fringed Pixie boots nearly every day of my senior year of high school (ala Stevie Ray Vaughan).
So when RJ shows up to work wearing some goofy-looking, flat-as-a-pancake shoe, I have to call her out. But now she has outdone herself...



And she claims that the shoemaker, Tom's, donates a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair purchased. Okay, I can get behind that! Just click on the blog title to go to their website.

I have a vision of little Ethiopian kids running through their village wearing Republican/Democrat shoes and wondering what a "vote" is...