L looking into the pond. She is about to lead me on the mushroom tour of her property. She knows I like to find and try to id mushrooms so she has all the mushrooms located before my arrival. She is a great mushroom scout. We found several varieties.
D and H and the girls built two garden boxes last Sunday. J and I spent the day helping H and the girls build the raised strawberry bed. D and H chose redwood lumber which looks very pretty now, but it will weather to gray in a year. But, redwood will weather very well and should give them a lifetime of use. They will eventually build some more boxes in the future, but for now strawberries, tomatoes and possibly herbs are planned. H has started many types of tomatoes and Alpine strawberries from seed and the plants are ready to be planted. Our neighbor Susan bought 8 tomato plants from L who plans to put the money in her piggy bank. Last month she tapped into her bank (she is a fanatic saver skimming whatever pennies she can find to put into her bank) to buy with the help of Mom and Dad a bicycle which she rides around with the aid of training wheels.
Above you can see my scout checking the amanitas. Very poisonous. May be the
Amanita ocreata or the Death Angel. It has the volva and veil on the stipend are apparent in the picture below.
Checking out a huge flush of Coprinus. I have not identified these yet, but there are hundreds here along with polypores attached to the rounds of cottonwood trunk.
Grandma helping the girls get some water in the swimming pool. We have not had but a few, very few, days of 80 this year and it did get into the 70's on this day. So the little one just plopped right down in the pool diaper, pajamas and all. Grandma got the clothes off and she was a happy camper.
G checking out the water before sitting in the pool. She might be checking for spiders. The girls can find the most minute spiders. L and I took a picture of a tiny green spider with my macro lens, but then I inadvertently deleted it. Bummer, it was a great picture that I would have liked to have posted.
Helping Mom transplant some seedlings to sell to Susan.
One of the best parts of transplanting seedlings is that you get to get your hands dirty!
Working hard at printing the names of the tomatoes on the popsicle sticks so Susan will know the name of her tomatoes. This is pretty hard work and takes a great amount of concentration when one is only four and writing on little popsicle sticks. She stuck with it and got it done. When L and I drove to Home Depot to buy some lumber and supplies for making the raised strawberry bed box she was telling me the importance of having a list when one went shopping. (We had a list that her Mom had given us of what she needed at Home Depot) I agreed and asked her if she made a list when she went to the grocery store. I was just kidding and was surprise when she told me that she did. She was pretty firm about that answer, so I am thinking okay, whatever. At dinner that night I found that she did indeed make the grocery lists when she and her Mom went shopping. Her Mom would spell out the item and L would write it down on the list. The current list was posted on the refrig and J commented about H's nice printing, but was told, no, that was L's printing. Wow! L really does make a list when she goes to the grocery store.
Enjoying a Rocky Road ice cream cone after dinner and a hard day of mushroom guiding and building.
How about an ice cream cone for this cutie? If you overlook the fully clothed plop into the swimming pool, she has been a real good girl today.
No, this is not racoon vomit. This is another form of a fungi known as slime mold. It really is slimey--just touch it. No smell.
Studying an
Agaricus.
Agaricus campesteris has flushed out all over the Weiser golf course after the recent rains.
Agaricus campesteris is the better tasting wild version of the white mushroom sold so prevelantly in the super markets.
Papa Coyote has to go call some wood working pals to try to solve a wood working problem.
See you all later,
Papa Coyote
