Friday, October 3, 2008

OUR WORM FARM

10-3-08...Our Worm Farm

We never had any spending money and never really expected any. No one else had any either. At least not anyone we knew or was friends with. A friend of ours told us that the big red worms we often found to fish with could be raised and people from the cities would buy them. He said we had to get something big and fill it with dirt from the creek. We got an old iron kettle that Mama had discarded cause it had a crack in it. We filled it with some slimy slippery dirt and we were all set. Travis said if you break the worms in two pieces then two worms would grow ,and to keep it watered. He also said that we could get hair from a horses tail and put it in water and it would become a worm. He told us we could sell city folk a worm for one cent. Well Heck fire we were a'gonna get rich by golly. Yep Rich! We dug a bunch of worms and put em' in the big potfull of dirt. Now we counted them every day and seemed like they were not making more. Heck fire there were less one day. Well Shoot fire Brenda, that ainta'gonna work. Durn that Travis anyway. Next day in school we cornered Travis and called him the worst thing we could think of. You liver lillied liar Travis. He asked us a few questions and said, You goofy girls, I told you to break em in two. When we got home from school we run down in the pasture and was a'gonna break them things in two but we didn't have a dab blamed worm to break. We checked our bucket of horse tail hairs and no worms there either. Well we just proceeded to dig us more worms and break em in two. Well I guess you know that those dead worms didn't get away like the live ones had. Nope they just sat there in that slimy dirt that was green and stinky by now. Several days later in school we spotted Travis talking to some other boys on the playgroung. Come on Brenda were'a'gonna beat the daylights outta him. We started over there and heard what he was saying so we just stood there and listened. That dad blamed lilly-livered skunk was a'makin fun of us. Boy I got them ol' girls good. Them boys was'a'laughin' their goozles off. Lets get em' Brenda said. Oh no Brenda, wer'a'gonna get him all right. We're gonna get him good. But not here cause we'll get in trouble. We'll do it at home. We had to wait several days but we knew Travis would come riding down on his bicycle one day, and he did. He was a skinny ol' thing and we knew we could over power him. Heck I coulda' done that by myself. Heck yeaw. He started tellin' our Brothers what he had done and how he had fooled them stupid girls and they were all'a laughin'. We just waited till he got through with his tale and we put our plan in to fast action. We had that pot of slimy, stinky, green by now and slightly stagnated with a film on top. Kinda thick and easy to manage. Throw him down Brenda and hold on. (Brenda was bigger than me then and a lot heavier) She ran and pounced on his back and knocked him to the ground. We both sat on him and rubbed rotten worm smush all over him, heck we even put a few hands full in his mouth. Now you smart elec swamp rat that'll teach you to laugh at us now wont it? Huh? Wont it. We were 10 and Travis was 8, all old enough to know better but boy was that sweet revenge. Boy howdy was it fun. Travis shoulda known Brenda and I didn't get mad, We Got Even. Our Brothers laughed, and the kids in school all laughed the next day when we told em'. Our Mamas didn't really see much humor in it but our Daddies sure did. Heck our Daddies laughed harder than the kids did. So did Travis's Daddy. Now his Mama was a different story. I recon she carried a grudge against us for many years. I worked with her when I was 18 yrs old. I helped her cook in a Nursing Home. She threw a big spoon of hot mashed potatoes on me one day and claimed she didn't mean to do it. Well I just smiled and said Oh I know you didn't. Oh but she wasn't foolin' me, that ol' bag did it on purpose. I got her back but good a few months later. But that's another story for another day. Yep Dont mess with me'n'Brenda. NOPE! You could really raise worms that way but not broke in two and it had to be a lot bigger container than we had. Travis's Dad was doing that but we didn't know the details at the time. I really dont know if Travis even knew how but I suspect he did cause he thought it was so funny. Well you smart elec, We got the last laugh. YEP!