Hey guys, it's Anne. Welcome back to the channel or welcome to the channel if you're new here. I have been gone for nearly a month. So if you're new here, you won't know that this is a worm composting channel, but if you're not new here, then you know that I've been gone for an extended amount of time due to having a COVID problem while I was on vacation. So we're going to check in on the African Nightcrawlers that are in this Burmese bag little mammoth. And we'll see what they've been doing. I have been gone for a good long time. So I don't imagine we'll find very much in the way of leftover food. So we will definitely have a lot to look at and a lot to investigate. So looking right here on top, there wasn't anybody looking in on the worms while I was gone, so I do expect it to be kind of dry. Even though this room doesn't have an air conditioner, I imagine it's going to be kind of dry. So we'll push all of the dry stuff off to the side. Looks like they're making, oh look at that, inside the ginger. I'm so excited. They are inside the ginger. Finally making progress on that. But this is horribly dry, so we are definitely going to have to add a lot, a lot of water to this, to get this back where it was going. And it looks like I've got some mycelium going here. I must have put something in here, perhaps that was wheat based. I don't remember. But we'll kind of put that off to the side for the things that are food that need to be rehydrated. Kind of just start a pile over here. Got my sticks. So it's starting to feel better once I get to the middle here and I am seeing that there are some worms. So that's good. They did have a way to get down deep and then also in my absence they have been attacking that ginger. So I'm pretty happy about that. I was honestly thinking that it was never going to go. But let's see. Yep, they're inside all of it. Yay, good worms. So unfortunately due to the dryness of most of everything, the worms probably will have shrunk down a little bit. Probably have not been reproducing like they usually do. There's about 10 to 15 pounds in this bin usually. So I imagine that that has been sacrificed a little bit in my absence, either in size or in number. But that is life and that is what this channel is about. It's not so much me telling you that I'm an expert in worm raising so much as this is a chronicle of my life as a worm farmer. And what happens, you know, when life happens and one of the things in life that happens is you catch COVID in a foreign country and you get stuck there because the government won't let you leave. That's life. That's life nowadays anyway. So it looks like they're doing a lot of good work here with the castings. We've got really good castings. We should be able to go ahead and harvest this again here in another week or so. The next check will probably be a harvest as well as a feed. Not seeing a ton of worms here, but I expect they're down deeper where it has a lot of moisture. And I'm really not going to go digging quite that far. So we'll take our leftovers here and move them over and dig through this side of the, you know, of the bin. Again, super dry. I'm going to go grab some of my water that has been evaporating for a while. Of all the weird things I find in my worm bins, a stylus for something really strange. So we're going to put this old stuff on here. I'm going to get some water and then we're going to feed them up. Okay, so no, I normally don't advocate really just pouring, but since this is so dry, I am going to pour, but then I'm going to kind of fluff as I pour so that I know that I'm not overwhelming the system. Now this is tap water and I have let this rest for several days so that the chlorine can evaporate. So you can tell just how very dry this is. I imagine the next time we check in on these worms, they'll be in a lot better shape. It's not unusual to have these kind of problems when you have a worm bin. Life just happens. And if you're perfect, that's great, but I'm not and many, many, many, many people are also not perfect. And you do have these problems with the change in the seasons, as well as if there is sickness or vacations or just whatever life throws at you that leads you to not be the best worm mom or dad in the world. So that's why I, you know, I show you this, you know, when I make these mistakes or when I have these problems, I take you along with me because, you know, it's, it's normal. Don't freak out. Don't bash your head against a wall. You know, I've done something so horrible, you know, but it's recoverable. You can recover from this as dry as that was. It is recoverable. So I've added an entire gallon or about four liters of water to this bin. I don't want to add any more. I'm going to let it soak in and I'll check on it in probably another couple of days and see if it needs some more. But we probably won't bring you back for that. So their food for today is going to be some frozen bananas, some melon and actually I was going to feed them something dry, but let me get some water to make this wet first before I feed it to them. They've got enough problems. So this is actually at CC has moved from the area and cleaned out her cabinets. So this is a mixture of pretzels, animal crackers and fortune cookies that are, you know, all super stale and everything. And I figure since the fortune cookies are just, you know, sugar and the fortune itself is just on paper. I think it'll be okay. Put your thoughts below. If you're fed cookies or or anything like that to them. I know it seems like a waste, but they're, you know, a couple of years beyond their expiration date. That's the kind of crazy thing to find when you're moving. So I'm going to go ahead and put those crackers in there. And then, of course, this particular bin does get clippings from the my son fish tank. So we're going to give those. So some algae and some leaves from house plants. And then we're going to give them quite a bit in the way of betting. This betting should go super fast because it's almost two or three months old now that it's been resting. So that will be good. That'll give them something easy to eat. Alrighty then. That looks pretty good. If you want to see the video from before and see what we ate last time, I will link that over there. And I also have a playlist for the African Nightcrawlers over here. If you like this video, give it a muddy thumbs up. If you're not a member of my worm family, click that subscribe button. And if you want to know what I'm doing, when I'm doing it, ring that bell icon. Alright guys, thanks for hanging out with me in my worms and everybody. Have a good day.