Worm piles in the door-yard.

April 14. 

Wind was easterly yesterday; hence snow and rain to-day. I think that this is the seventh rain storm (as I reckon), beginning with the 18th of March, which resulted from the wind becoming easterly on the previous day, after having been in each instance but one northwest the day before, and that once the previous day was quite calm. 

There are many worm holes or piles in the door-yard this forenoon. How long? 

Transplanting currant bushes to-day, I find that, though the leaf-buds have not begun to open, white shoots have shot up from the bottom of the stocks two to four inches, far below the surface as yet, and I think that they have felt the influence of the season, not merely through the thawed ground, but through that portion of the plant above ground. There is this growth at the root in early spring, preceding any visible growth above ground.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 14, 1859

The seventh rain storm (as I reckon), beginning with the 18th of March, which resulted from the wind becoming easterly on the previous day, See  April 14, 1857 (“Tuesday. Rains all day.”);  April 14, 1858 (“Rains still, with one or two flashes of lightning, but soon over.);April 14, 1860 ("A strong westerly wind in forenoon, shaking the house."); See also April 22, 1856 (“These rain-storms -- this is the third day of one -- characterize 'the season, and belong rather to winter than to summer.”);  April 17, 1857 (" It rains about every other day now for a fortnight past.”);  April 22, 1859 ("This afternoon there is an east wind, and a rain-storm accordingly beginning, the eighth of the kind with this wind"); April 26, 1859 ("This is the last of the rains (spring rains !) which invariably followed an east wind. "); April 30, 1859 ("The wind has at length been easterly without rain following")

Worm holes or piles in the door-yard this forenoon. See April 9, 1861 ("Worm-piles in grass.”); April 26, 1856  (“Worm-piles about the door-step this morning; how long?”); April 30, 1855 (“I see a great many little piles of dirt made by the worms on Conantum pastures”)