Earthworm

After I started my volunteer stint at the library it began to pour.  Little chance of anyone braving the deluge to come in tonight.  I first finished my usual tasks.  Then went looking for The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.  Someone from another library was asking for our copy and we couldn't find it.  It should have been in the fiction section under "SHA" but it wasn't there.  I checked our records to see what the book cover looked like:  light blue background w/ a design on the front.  Should be easy to spot.  In case someone had put it in the wrong area I checked the Western Large Print, the Large Print, and the New Releases sections.  Nope.  Went back to the Fiction section and went through all of the books whose author's last name began w/ 'S'.  Nope.  Could be in Non-Fiction but that would mean checking each book.  Well, nothing else to do at the moment.  When I got to the Dewey Decimal System 300's (Anthropology) I found it.  Actually it wasn't shelved there as much as displayed: standing upright on a shelf.   Interesting spot for it.  

The rain stopped about the time I drove home and I immediately took Whip out for our nightly constitutional.  I saw earthworms for the first time this year.  I always find it interesting that 11,000 years ago  there were no earthworms here.   The area had been glaciated multiple times throughout the Pleistocene.   I like to imagine that, once things began to warm up, earthworms very slowly migrated from the south up to the Northwoods  but more probably they were all brought in by settlers either accidently or on purpose.  About a half hour after Whip and I got back, rain, thunder, and lightning started up again.  Radar shows it will probably go on all night.