Spring showed up late yesterday morning so there was a lot to do. I had to plant my onions, they're live starts, hope they make it... was a bit long waiting to put them in the ground over at my buddy's house. He was nice and raked up the dead leaves and helped with th tilling. It's a small plot but it's still a lot of work for me to do alone.
After that it was help with little two person jobs on his antique trucks, immaculate 1947s fully restored. We have Sunday gig where in winter we spend the after noon making a big dinner and playing cards and dice, darts. But now it's coming up on time for outside things which means mushrooming and rock-hounding. Both activities require considerable amounts of physical exercise so we in our late 60s, are glad to have something fun to do while working out. There's nothing like hiking a couple miles to a "good spot" for either treasure and then packing up to 20lbs of bounty back to the vehicle for an aging body!
Yesterday was a beautiful day and after all the work was done we had time to do a lot of fun stuff so he had things to go look at, a vehicle he might buy and scope out new mushroom hunting grounds. Last year we had a massive flood, you saw it on the news, it closed Jellystone NP for a week. Well, a few thousand miles of river in the area flooded and there was a lot of ground that got really wet, wiped out some of our mushrooming spots, others had over two feet of silt deposited on them so now we have to go assess the damage. Do mushrooms grow through silt?
So my buddy and I jumped in the 51 Chevy and tooled around looking at places around the county. But then he decides we have to go check out a spot that required a 1.5 mile hike over flood detritus and uneven gravel through willows and whatnot! I didn't have my walking stick and I wasn't really prepared but handled it especially after I scored a walking stick out of a pile of stuff. It was worth it, we saw lots of wildlife, wild turkeys, eagles on nests, lots of deer and moose tracks and found a few new "shroomin'" locations to check out when the season starts up.
It sure was a nice day! Glad you and yours had one too! Spring has sprung, game on!
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