Shrooooooom Hunting

It was kinda early and kinda cold and a little kinda damp but...Oh yeah...we went mushroom hunting.  It was so good to be out early in the woods with the little monkey's.  They love the woods.

Of course we had our good friend Keely who is a professional mushroom hunter.  She's that kind of person that just breathes life when your with her. She's contagious and I just want to crawl inside her world and get a taste of that "I can do anything today...let's GO!" kinda frame of mind. She taught us what to look for.  At first they all looked the same to me and my eyes coudn't tell the difference between your local "no no that will make you grow and extra eyeball" and "oh yeah there's a beauty! Pick it" We'd be walking in the woods and I would hear her say "OH GOSH...OH Yeah!" That meant she found like a big pile of huge ones.  I was like..."Oh hears one right?" And with my pocket knife I would pick it.

In the end we had a few a bags full and she studiously looked through all my shrooms befor we said our goodbyes.
Eli said as we are driving away..."But mom, I will really miss Mrs.Keely :("
We had a great adventure and can't wait till next season to go back for more!
These Chanterelle's will dry over night, get washed and then dehydrated! 
































This one is NOT a mushroom that you can eat. But it's really cool!


p.s.  So I've been a blogging freakoid (and I don't even know if that many people read this...and that doesn't even really matter) this week and sometimes I just get into this groove of wanting to blog EVERYTHING. I find it really helpful to process my crazy days and thoughts and trials.  Like if I blog about it, it somehow becomes more real.  But the cool thing is that I finally figured out how to have music on my blog. Something I've wanted to do for the last year but have not had the time/energy to even try to figure it out.