fungal forays

16.5.2021

 

This weekend a cold front has hit us and combined with the wet weather to insure we keep outdoor work to a minimum.  Josh has been foraging and arrived home with pine and field mushrooms in abundance.  Field mushrooms are common on our farm, but pine mushrooms are harder to find. I have never actually found any but obviously I have not looked hard enough because Josh found them growing under our old Xmas tree today.

 

Yesterday we went to our friends 50^th wedding anniversary at DeBortoli’s. We had a wonderful afternoon catching up with many of the friends who worked with us in the desert. That was about 30 years ago now, so we have known them a long time and we have a rather special bond with them after all the time we spent living and working together. It was real community living with all our time spent in walking distance of each other. Josh had been too young to remember most of the people there, but they all remembered him.

It was a great way to spend a miserable cold wet afternoon.

 

A sea of mud is developing in front of the house where the drive has been dug up to build the car port.  Edd put down a load of chippings but they immediately sank into the mud and have done little to improve anything. On a better note, our new storage shed has stayed completely dry, and the water is draining away from behind it down the gully.  The shed has an open front, but it is in the rain shadow of the larger shed and the rain so far has never blown in.

 

Storage in the house is harder. Josh and all his stuff have to be fitted in somewhere. Josh is using the spare room for storage and has out his swag down in the back storage space. He finds he is less disturbed there.  We hoped he could have his own space in the site office, but it is too damp, and the roof has started to leak again so that idea failed.  I really enjoy having him home after so many years so accommodating him with some of our space is fine.  I imagine he will get sick of it long before I do.