Power outage yesterday helped us learn that the breaker in the house labeled “barn” might not be connected to, well, anything. The barn appears to be wired to a breaker labeled “OUT” in the breaker box in the other basement. Neat!
Big balls around this place.
The one that roped us in … LOOK AT THAT DOG! Is that not the cutest dog you’ve ever seen?
On the ride home. She really looks super upset about being torn away from her family.
Side eye. She doesn’t trust you guys.
This is what she looks like from the top.
They obviously can’t stand each other.
What happens when you add ANOTHER NEWFIE? Graham is taller, and thinner than Moose (and is my nephew’s dog). As you can see, they get along horribly.
This is Moose when I took him to the do -it-yourself doggie place.
The Oschi.
Poor dog – shouldn’t have that many issues. But she was as sweet as can be despite that.
Remember when Leon used to do Mushroom stuff? I found this out by my chicken coop – looked like a portabella to me. Weird.
On last picture – me and Ian at the show last week:
Ever done this? It’s kind of fun and you can do it with any gilled mushroom cap. Often useful in species identification.
Dead man’s fingers. Don’t eat, don’t touch, consider killing with fire while wearing a respirator.
These images may look like harmless fruiting bodies, but they are related to (and possibly part of) the world’s largest living organism. I give you the honey mushroom. A saprophitic species that can kill or essentially underpin enormous swaths of forested land in a sometimes symbiotic, sometimes parasitic relationship. In the US Pac NW and northern Michigan, it’s mostly a symbiote. In the UK, it appears to be eating whole forests.
The following pictures are of a naturally-occurring fruiting body that you may have looked right past. They grow everywhere in US these days, the spores having spread by natural means and the hands of man. They are also a Schedule 1 controlled substance at the time of this writing. For reference, fentanyl (aka “the opiod epidemic”) is a Schedule 2, and marijuana is basically off the table for federal enforcement in many states. You could have these by accident and be charged with a crime. I wanted to cover them here because they have a superficial resemblance to last week’s mushroom: the death cap. They bruise differently (blue vs none) and have purple-brown gills and spores (death cap has white gills and spores), though, so differences can be seen when inspected.
Psilocybe cubensis, likely being grown illegally based on the setting.
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May 21, 2019
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