Heartworm (255/366)

TIME: 6:30 pm
PLACE: The neighborhood
SUBJECT: Worm (and ants)

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Took Mulder for a walk.

Saw this...I got nothing more today. 

Tomatoes & Unwanted Visitor (207/365)

Nestled inside vines
I see ripe red tomatoes
Eaten by a worm.

Original Haiku by Sujomi

TIME:  9:06 AM
PLACE:  Backyard
SUBJECT:  Cherry tomatoes on vine

See all those cherry tomatoes?  I was excited to see some that had ripened when I was watering the plants this morning.  But as I was picking the ripe ones, I found that they all had holes in them from some sort of bug.  Maybe it was this fellow:



Yuck.  If those cutworms think that they are going to mutilate my tomatoes, they have another thing coming.  I’m bigger than they are, so I will prevail. I hope.

Wormy (210/365)

“June 15:  My older sister thinks she’s so pretty.  I told her that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end.
Spider thought that was really funny.
Mom did not.”

Cronin, Doreen. *Diary Of A Worm*. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2004. 

TIME:  6:21 PM
PLACE:  Backyard
SUBJECT:  Worm

The swimming pool is officially kaput.  It had developed an air leak in the upper ring about a month ago and the last time we filled it, it also started to leak water.  Try as HandsomeHusband and I might, we couldn’t find exactly where either leak was located.  So, the pool made its acquaintance with the trash container this evening.  When I pulled up the tarp covering the ground underneath the pool, I spied an extremely long worm.  I quickly ran inside to get StellaDella, who I knew would appreciate the length of this non-arthropod invertebrate.  She did.

And the Worms Crawl In (079/365)

 
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (American, President, Governor, Secretary of the Navy,  Senator, Lawyer  1882-1945)

TIME: 9:42 AM
PLACE:  Mother's Day Out
SUBJECT: Worms

This week has been brought to you by the letter "W" at Mother's Day Out.  Having been though the alphabet with the older two children, I knew that today would present a photo opportunity with worms.  It was funny, all the girls were gathered around the table with the tin pie pans giggling and picking up the worms and the boys were at the second table playing with a whale bubble maker.