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Midweek Magnificent Mushrooms. #5
Hi everyone and welcome back to another look at some of our magnificent mushrooms that we have in this area. I did not realize that it had been so long since we have looked at mushrooms, so it is time to get back at it. Today we have another beautiful looking mushroom, but remember, just because it looks nice does not mean it is great to it. Again I will stress, you should always go looking for edible mushrooms with someone who actually knows which mushrooms are safe to eat.
It really does not pay to take chances, many mushrooms are poisonous! Today our mushroom is one of the Pholiota species, this time it is the Scaly Pholiota (pholiota squarrosa). The various Pholiota species can be difficult to identify accurately without the aid of a microscope, and knowing what to look for. This species is quite common certain years and can be found growing singly or in bouquets, like in today’s photo.
Scaly Pholiota mushroom, TOXIC.
These mushrooms are TOXIC, do not eat them! They can cause severe gastrointestinal distress which can put a person in the hospital. They can be found on rotting logs or stumps of trees, or around the base of a dead tree, as these were. Although they are toxic and no good to eat, they are a great mushroom for photography purposes. I have several different photos of them and other Pholiota species. They are found from late summer to early fall, particularly in a wet year.
I took this photo in 2019, in September, which was a very wet time for us with lots of rain. I have not seen any in that area since, although I did not check that location last fall. If all this rain we are getting continues through to fall, we should have another great year for mushrooms. Well, that is all for this time, have a great day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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Muffin’s Fun! #70
Hi ho everyone!😻 And meow, meow to all cats! It nice morning here. Yesterday bad morning with big booms from thunderstorms. Not like that at all. But it cooler now and that nice for me, but my human not like it cooler. He tell me he like warm weather best, he not like cool weather. So it warm up nice for him and he turn on fans. I ask why he turn on fans. He say to make it cooler. That when my ears go straight up and I bite leg! My human get a bit mixed up sometimes.😹 But he nice anyway. Here is funnies for today…
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One day an employee came into work with both of his ears bandaged. His boss asked him what happened to his ears.
“Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and I accidentally answered the iron instead of the phone!”
“Well,” the boss said, “that explains one ear, but what about the other?”
“They called back.”
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Grandpa wonders how much 6-year-old Tommy knows about money. Just for fun, he pulls two bills from his wallet – a ten and a twenty – and asks Tommy which one he’d rather have. Tommy grins and takes the ten dollar bill.
“Thanks, Grandpa!”
Grandpa thinks it’s kinda funny, so he does it again. Again Tommy chooses the ten-dollar bill.
Grandpa calls over Uncle Joe and says, “Watch this.” He again offers Tommy a ten and a twenty, and again Tommy chooses the ten.
Both men chuckle, and then call over Tommy’s dad. Grandpa again offers a ten and a twenty, and Tommy gleefully takes the ten.
Dad takes Tommy aside. “Son, don’t you know twenty is more than ten?”
“Sure,” says Tommy. “But if I took the twenty, Grandpa wouldn’t keep playing the game. Now I have forty dollars.”
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Little Johnny wanted to go to the zoo and pestered his parents for days. Finally his mother talked his reluctant father into taking him.
“So how was it?” his mother asked when they returned home.
“Great!” Little Johnny replied excitedly.
“Did you and your father have a good time?” asked his mother.
“Yeah, Daddy really liked it, too,” exclaimed Little Johnny, “especially when one of the animals came home at 30 to 1!”
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I am at the age where each day is a wonder. I wonder what is going to hurt today.
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Recipe for iced coffee: Have kids, make coffee, get distracted and forget you made coffee, drink it cold 3 hours later.
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While flying from Denver to Kansas City, Kansas, my mother was sitting across the aisle from a woman and her eight-year-old son.
Mom couldn’t help laughing as they neared their destination and she heard the mother say to the boy, “Now remember — run to Dad first, then the dog.”
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This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her cat and you could tell she thought the cat understood every word. I came back home and told my dog. We got a big laugh out of that.
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That all for today everyone! I hope you have nice middle of week day!
Muffin. 😽
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