I was de-cluttering beside the garage when I moved these plastic bins, and that's when I discovered these things in the bottom one. Inch long, whitish, not segmented but with the lines across like the pupa stage of some bugs, wiggling/swimming in the primordial soup. There is no meat or grease in those, only plant trimmings, peels, fruit cores, skins, etc. I think as it broke down and maybe rain got it became so soupy. I have a regular compost pile in back but the dogs get into it if I throw the food scraps out, even if it is banana peels and onion skins. That's why I had this bin going, to let it break down to something that they wouldn't be interested in. It worked during the winter months, but this time of it my plan exceeded my wildest dreams. . .

Really hot here now, so I'll be doing more indoor work. I have ceiling fans in all of the house except the bathrooms and kitchen. They'll be going quite a bit now and I'll try to achieve the cool interior with interesting views out of the various windows. Think Hemingway's house or a desert adobe thick-walled house with wide verandas or brush arbors to shade windows and doors.

SRS