Today would be a good day to look for Jack-O-Lanterns.
I managed to get out both the day before the big wind and the day after. I did not find anything either time. Lots of leaves have come down the last two days. I'll probably try and get out again to see if anything is showing above the leaves.
Waiting until the last minute I headed out this evening to check for sheepshead mushrooms before the snow. At first I found nothing but just about the time I decided that the season was over I found three fair sized ones and two small ones.
We already gave one away and the other is headed for a good home tomorrow. The rest are headed for the sauté pan and the freezer.
Maybe there's a problem when...
Today as I headed home from church I spotted what appeared to be mushrooms growing in a yard. "Those look like mushrooms!". My son replied, "I want to go home." "No, no they looked like big mushrooms. I'm going to go around the block for a better look." Again, "I just want to go home." Around the block we go. "This is stupid!, I want to go home." I stop the car. "Those are just leaves." he said. "No the aren't." I said as headed across the yard at a good clip. "They're Shaggy Manes! We never found Shaggy Manes before." "You can't pick them! That's somebody else's yard." So I'm grabbing mushrooms and once I have a decent handful I head back to the car. I was wearing a suit so I should have thought to stuff them into my pockets. I could have carried more that way. "This is embarrassing. I want to go home now! Don't you know it's a federal offense to pick mushrooms in somebody else's yard?" Well that was news to me.
Yesterday I noticed a lot of mushrooms making their appearance in my yard. Except for a couple of horse mushrooms there was nothing you'd want to stick into you mouth. We headed out hoping to find boletes, honey mushrooms, aborted entoloma and of course sheep's head. We didn't find much at all. The area that was so full of honeys and entoloma had nothing. We ended up with one bolete and a small bunch of honeys.
