[Rhodes22-list] Mushrooms

[john Belanger]

now here"s a subject worthy of heated debate and opinion!!!! hooray!
john b
s/v 1969 venture 21


--- On Mon, 6/2/08, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mushrooms
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 3:55 PM
> 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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