Those darn worms. They continued to escape again and again. So I put them in a bucket that didn't have holes in the bottom. But the bucket wasn't big enough to hold all of them so I finally put them into a big tub. They seemed to like that. They crawled all over the sides of the tub leaving lots and lots of casings. Perfect!
But let me tell you about my house. I keep it cold. I keep the thermometer at 60'. I do have one of those new radient heaters in my living room. But I like the rest of my house cold. So my kitchen is cold. And that is where my worm bin is. And the worms seemed to like the temperature.
However, I had the bin near, very near the heat vent. I happened to get a cold last week and because I needed it, I turned up the temp. And forgot the bin was so close to the vent.
When I tossed in the celery ends, I noticed that there were only 3 worms crawling on the side of the tub. The rest were laying on the bottom, pretty sad looking. At first, I wasn't sure why they looked dead. I was telling my friend about them and suddenly realized that they were by the vent and I was cooking them.
I moved them to my porch for a couple of hours and then back into my kitchen after I turned the furnace back down. Finally, today there were more worms crawling around. Hurrah! I would have felt terrible if I had cooked them all!
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