[Rhodes22-list] Mushrooms

[Brad Haslett]

Slim,

"I think it's illegal to sell them comercially and the
hunters guard their secret locations, so they're quite rare."

Yeah, no kidding.  Every other year my hometown newspaper runs a photo of my
Dad sitting on an elm stump surrounded by hundreds of morels.  My brother
took the picture.  I've tried the "how many morel seasons do you have left?"
with my Dad with no luck.  The, "what the heck, you don't live there
anymore" line with my brother gets answered with, "neither do you".

Next season I may put a GPS tracking device on my dads truck.  You know,
just in case he gets lost in the woods.

Brad

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> There are plenty of picture books to help you identify the various species.
> 'Shrooms come in all different shapes, colors and sizes.  They also grow in
> varying but specific situations.  In the case of the Morel, if it's this
> time of year in MN and you see one growing from a rotting elm tree and it
> looks like a human brain in its appearence, it really can't be anything
> else
> but the coveted morel.  I'm not really a big mushroom eater but these are
> different.  Sauteed in a little butter is all you need do.  Try them if you
> get the chance.  I think it's illegal to sell them comercially and the
> hunters guard their secret locations, so they're quite rare.
>
> http://thegreatmorel.com/
>
> There is something called a "false morel" which looks similar but it grows
> in the sand and/or from pine trees and has a different season.
>
> Another example:  If you're walking through a cow pasture in southern
> Florida in the spring just after a rain and it's a steamy afternoon and you
> see one growing out of a "cow pie" and it has a big golden cap with a thin
> black fringe and a blueish stem,  you don't even have to eat it--just
> handle
> it with your bare skin and soon the cows will start talking to you!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms
>
> Slim
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>
> > How do you know you're not going to die when you eat a wild mushroom?
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> >
> >
> > Thena Carville wrote:
> > > Steve,
> > > Thanks for the update on Roger...some of us really miss him...Gary
> > working
> > > for the police dept...heh heh...in the traffic division?...heh heh...
> > > Thena
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> > > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Steven Alm
> > > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:30 AM
> > > To: Rhodes
> > > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Met Roger P. on our Shakedown
> > >
> > > Sunday, June 1st.  Went for our first sail of the season today.  Temps
> in
> > > the low 80s, winds light and variable.  We motored about half the time.
> >  We
> > > beached on "Boy Scout Island" and searched the area for morel
> mushrooms.
> > > This is their time--when the lilacs bloom, after a rain, followed by a
> > hot
> > > day.  But no luck.
> > >
> > > After getting under way, from behind me I heard, "STEVE!!!"  I looked
> > around
> > > and saw a paddler in a kayak.
> > >
> > > "Zachu, Roger?" I yelled but I knew damn well who it was.
> > >
> > > I hove to and himself boarded Fandango (demonstrating his deluxe kayak
> to
> > > Rhodes equilibrium boarding system) and we offered him beer and snacks
> as
> > we
> > > drifted and chatted for about a half hour.  This week his wife, Deb is
> > out
> > > of school in MI and coming to be with him for the summer.  Son, Gary
> has
> > > been hired by the Madison, WI police dept.  Roger is still traveling
> the
> > > world with his position at Emerson and is talking wistfully how it's
> four
> > > more years until he can retire and move back home to Sanford.  Dynamic
> > > Equilibrium is still on the hard getting a bottom job.  We did not
> > mention
> > > "da list."
> > >
> > > For those newbies who weren't here then, Roger was a prolific
> contributor
> > to
> > > the list before he got tired of the political banter and left a couple
> > years
> > > ago.
> > >
> > > But we're near full-pond at the lake and all systems GO on Fandango's
> > > shakedown--let the good times roll!!!
> > >
> > > And that's all the news that's fit to print from Lake Minnetonka.
> > >
> > > Slim
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