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Magnificent Mushrooms! #1
Hi everyone and welcome to our new series which I hope you will enjoy! I will try to publish these posts every week, and on the same day so you will know when to expect them. This will not be a definitive post on identifying or learning about mushrooms. Rather it will be more some interesting facts about mushrooms of many different kinds that are found in our area.
However, most of these mushrooms can be found across eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. So, if you enjoy mushrooms, or even if you do not, come and join me on this little tour of a fascinating fungus. This first mushroom is called Orange-Yellow Fly Agaric. Kind of an odd name for a mushroom, but there it is.
Orange-Yellow Fly Agaric.
This is just one of a large group of mushrooms called Amanita (there are hundreds of varieties around the world). The Amanita group is also very poisonous. This one is generally quite orange in our area (though it can also be white) and is found near deciduous and coniferous trees. It is one of the most beautiful of the Amanita group.
The cap can be up to 10 inches (25cm) wide and covered with buff colored patches (often called warts). This mushroom is poisonous to people and pets. Among other things it can cause delirium and a coma-like condition that can last many hours. Amanitas are poisonous mushrooms and can cause death.
This mushroom can be found out west too and in Europe, but it is bright red in those areas. My picture is a young mushroom, the cap flattens out and spreads as it ages. I was unable to go back to get another picture of it. This mushroom can be found in later summer and fall, especially in a wet year.
If you want to pick wild mushrooms for eating, go with an experienced mushroom hunter at first until you get to recognize what is good and what is not. It will save you a lot of problems, perhaps some very serious problems. Well, I hope you all have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2024 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Fun! #49
PLEASE NOTE: Muffin’s Fun post is meant for humor purposes only and is not intended to be taken seriously. Thank you.
Hi to everyone on bemeowtiful morning! Meow to all my cat friends too! It nice sunshiny morning, but very, very windy. Cats not like windy days. Wind make it hard to hear and cats like to hear what is around them. So this good day to stay inside where there is no wind. It early day today, my human decide to get up at 3:08am! That crazy time to get up, I still sleeping. But he go do laundry real early and beat the rush.
I ask how big is rush. He say sometimes two or three people ahead of him if he go later. I look at him. Two people is rush? He say is only 3 machines. Three people, three machines, so what is problem. He say one people want to use three machines. I say kick one people out, or bite leg, make one people run away with screams. Then lots machines for other two people. Simple solution. He not like idea. Very strange. Here is funnies for Friday…
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DEFINITION OF OUTDOOR BARBECUING The man volunteers to barbeque dinner so his wife can relax. The following chain of events is put into motion.
1) The woman goes to the store.
2) The woman fixes the salad, vegetables, and dessert.
3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils, and takes it to the man, who is lounging beside the grill, drinking a cold beverage.
4) The man places the meat on the grill.
5) The woman goes inside to set the table and check the vegetables.
6) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is burning.
7) The man takes the meat off the grill and hands it to the woman.
8) The woman prepares the plates and brings them to the table.
9) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.
10) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed “her night off.” The man discovers it was not the right thing to ask.
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When people check behind shower curtains for murderers, what’s the plan if they find one?
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Forgot to get to the gym today, that makes 8 years in a row now.
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The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
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Sign at the beach… Please dress for the body you have, not the body you wish you had. Thank you.
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That all for today everyone, thank you for reading, have nicest weekend time to you!
Muffin.
©2024 Muffin McLeod.
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