[ WP ] While digging in your back yard , you make a discovery .

I dig a lot. I have a few vegie patches and my kids and I, well, we just love digging. Feeling the earth on our hands, under our nails, smelling the soil, it just... well, not to be silly, but, it grounds us. This is our mother, I tell my children. Look after her. 
 
 The kids love it when we find worms. I let them take the wriggly little things to spots in the garden where we are n't working just so we wo n't accidentally slice the little critters in half. And when that does happen, well, I just toss the pieces somewhere else before the kids see... 
 
 Well, the other morning, we were turning the bed, it'll be spring soon, so we need to get ready for a new planting. I dug up a worm, but we were just amazed. I think we smiled about this little worm for the rest of the day. 
 
 Usually, when we find worms, they're just worms. Long pinkish wriggling. Nothing fantastic. But this little guy, well, he was a knot. A knot, a little worm knot. It was the first time I've seen this, and well, I wo n't tell you how old I am, but you know, with the amount of digging I do, you'd think I'd have seen it before. Anyway, he unravelled himself after a little tickling, and we found him a new home... 
 
 Not a world-shattering discovery. No hole to another dimension in my backyard. No dinosaur bones or jewels or anything fancy like that. Just nature, doing what it does. Who'd have thought?
