Can someone please help me identify this tiny worm in my garden? It's like a piece of hair and it moves in a twisting motion. I think it's eating some of my plants, but I can't find out what it is. Anyone? At first I thought it was a hair, that's how thin it is.
It is in a bed where I have sown some red mustard plants which do seem to be chomped on. But maybe they're not the culprits. They look too tiny to cause much damage. If it's them, will diatomaceous earth control them?

@colinpurrington is this something you recognize?

Is it worth it?

If I needed convincing (which I don't) that my months/years of working to keep fit and maintaining and building muscle (at now 75yo) are worth it, yesterday's near accident would have done it!
I was coming home from an evening bike ride, and coming down a long rough hill. This is a turn I have to make on the bike almost every day and usually I choose to negotiate the lumpy tree roots on the left of the image, before turning sharply to the left side of the image and then taking another sharp turn up a grassy field to home. This time I chose the other side as the roots looked less protruding than on my usual route. However I was wrong and the turn was much sharper and the bike started to slip sideways on some dried leaves. I lost my pedals and started to fall. Somehow I wrenched the handlebars up and righted the heavy bike, by sheer strength. I caught the pedals again and carried on riding up the field with the momentum of the downhill trajectory. A few months ago I would not have had the strength to do that and would definitely have fallen over. I'm not riding a mountain bike and the road tires are not suited to that terrain, but usually it handles it fairly well.
I felt ridiculously proud of my achievement and the strength which permitted me to avoid injury.
So, yes! It's worth it!
#EllieKPosts #cycling #woodland #strengthtraining #elder #oldWomanOnABike

Fox Shenanigans:
This is incredibly silly but a timeline cleanse.
What do you think is happening here?
Turn your volume right down, I've no idea what that noise is! (Apologies)

I think I'm going to have to stop listening to "Framed" by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. I can't bear it any more.
If you still have any faith at all in the justice system (in the US in this case, but probably anywhere), reading this will soon disabuse you of that illusion.

I get it. And I have listened to several of the stories. But it is simply too painful to carry on, especially knowing this kind of injustice is running rampant now. I need to try to sleep and this isn't helping.

If you're waiting for the audiobook from Halifax library, have at it. But don't say I didn't warn you.

It is #FoxFriday surely!
We found our foxes! Obviously they moved to a different spot on the property this year. It's all thanks to our trail cam. We got videos of a deer, raccoons (regular, not golden, so far), then moved the camera and in the early morning there were lots of photos of (at least) 3 foxes. They were playing and drinking from the bowl of water I had put there for them. I suspect the other videos are too big to upload.

Then came this video! I guess they like shiny things.

#EllieKPosts #foxes #wildlife #trailcam

@Words - I thought of you!

Following Dan's suggestion that we do the following, here is my brief 10 minute bioblitz in my woods .
Birds heard and recorded by #merlin #merlinApp
I'm trying to learn to identify only from their songs or calls. As I mostly can't see them!
@danmccullough
#10MinuteBioblitz.

• Pick an area that you like
• Explore for 10 minutes and record what you find, be it flora or fauna
• Can be photos, sounds, descriptions, drawings, whatever you like
• ID not required. But Alt-text please