11/04/2026
*Adventures on the farm*
I love seeing these little guys!! Whenever I see a ton of night crawlers slithering down our driveway, and across the road, I can’t help but laugh. It always reminds me of my 12-year old self that made my own sense of the world. 😂
I was visiting my grandma in Racine (from FL where night crawler hunting is not a thing) and we were planning to go fishing. My dad made a comment, in passing, that it was too bad it wasn’t raining otherwise we would have night crawlers coming out of the saturated ground to use as bait the following day. Being that night crawler hunting sounded very exciting, and we did need bait, I used my 12-yr old logic and ‘made it rain’. My grandma came outside that night when she heard water running. She found me delightedly hunting night crawlers, with a flash light, squirming around on the ground I was flooding with the garden hose.
Needless to say, everyone learned a lesson that night, adults included! I learned flooding someone’s back yard was not a nice thing to do and night crawlers were available at the store if we couldn’t find any outside. My dad learned that he needed to explain things a little more thoroughly to me and always check to see what kind of trouble I was stirring up. 😉
