Sunday, May 3, 2009

Mushroom Hunting

Well today we went mushroom hunting because the boys returned from their fishing trip. After so much rain and a couple days of sun I thought we might find some. We went on some friends property and found about 15 in a spot we always look. Tired and a little frustrated we went to leave the area and go out to Little John. Nici decided to look in one more spot. Of course I found the first one. Mom came over and found one of the bigest ones we had. Glen came out around that time and we started making our way up the hill and nici spotted a patch of 41 right under a stump. Just looked like a clump of gold moss. It was beautiful. We were so excited to see them. Then I spotted one on the other side of the gully. In doing this we ended up finding mushrooms up the entire hillside. In all on that one hillside we found 819 mushrooms and it took us about two hours to pick them all. I am sure we missed some. That is right I am not exagerating. They weighed in at about 14 1/2 pounds. It was the most fun I have ever had. Thanks to that friend that let us hunt on his ground.

1 comment:

Kristi said...

Did you take them to the Chicago area?? I heard they were selling for $50-$75/pound! You would make a KILLIN'!!