How are all of you doing?
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Morel therapy is kinda working for me. Can't believe I can't go the beer joint or bet the ponies.
Be safe everyone!
Be safe everyone!
Found a few morels this weekend......Still about a week out I believe
Turkey season needs to get here....
I miss the "old days" as well... Here's hoping that we have some football to argue about this coming fall.
I mean if you want to argue about football.........We could talk about how the spread offense has ruined every aspect of the game that we know an love.......
I've almost cleaned out my woods out back. If it can dry up I will till my garden. I'm farther along this year than I've ever been.
I have watched Super Bowl 3, 12, 13. Namath's release and accuracy were bad ass. He would have a field day in today's NFL. Randy White from the Cowboy's in those two Super Bowls was an absolute beast...Bosa/Reggie White impact on the SB's. The Steeler's/Cowboys Super Bowl was sensational. Amazing long passes. Turnovers...34-31 with two teams that were in 4 Super Bowls on and 8 year span. More HOFs on the field than you can believe.
You're tellin' me! I think just about every Doc Guy misses the "old days." Thats one thing every MoSports poster seems to have in common!
Those Steeler/Cowboy SB's remain my favorites, and I had no skin in the games. They just seemed 'bigger'.
Im talking about when our docs aired!!
I'm one of the 1 in 50 million or whatever who got it... Sucks.. but all I have now after 8 days is shortness of breath and no stamina. Pretty well the same crap you deal with when you hit the big 60.. Wife is showing a little compassion (unbelievable) and the kids, grandkids tested negative. Employer is allowing me to work at home so hopefully I will have this behind me and be ready to tackle turkey season in a couple of weeks. A friend of mine who caught it from his wife is currently at SE Hospital at Cape with IV's stuck in him and on oxygen. This stuff can get mean. Please keep your families safe.
Glad you're doing well with it. I hope your friend can make a full and quick recovery. Did you experience a fever at all?
But shortness of breath and no stamina? How would anyone know if Bosko even had it!?!?
Just had 100.5 the first day with a little nausea and a headache. I've been luckier than most.
I would venture to say many of us have already had it and just don't know it yet. When they put out a home 'rona antibody test we'll better know.
Found a few today and going back out in a bit. Have found fewer than a dozen in my usual spots.
I found a dozen in Reynolds County this past weekend. Some BIG reds but I never eat those. Almost ran over four with the lawnmower....
I told the wife this....We went to Disney over Christmas break(Let me tell ya, it is NOT the happiest place on earth during that time. Come to find out it is the most crowded on New Years Day). Flew back January 3rd and about January 7th I was knocked out with a low grade fever and cough. I had pneumonia as a middle school aged kid that put me in the hospital for awhile. It seemed alot like that. I still wake up with a cough every morning, three months later. I wasn't the only one at work to get it either, plus my kids showed the same, but lesser symptoms. Who knows, it could of been any of the other 219 or so viruses humans can get. But everything lines up....
Hope ya feel better! If you need somebody to check on the well being of your turkeys let me know.
Ah, good to know I'm not the only one that feels impacted by a touch of the rona every now and then. I never had fever or shortness of breath, but minor headache and dry cough are symptoms occasionally.
Day 9 and I feel like the old Shorty. Wife wants me to help with landscaping in the yard but I'm going to play the shortness of breath deal for another 3 or 4 days.... What she don't know wont hurt her...Thanks for your kind words men. Really never had anything in my life that I actually questioned my mortality. It was humbling mainly because of my lack of knowledge and the unknown's. Ready for life to go on... Turkey season is a biggie to me. However, the love of the game called football will always be #1.
For us north of the river where the season is later, it should not effect.
Did shortbutfat have to change his name to short but skinny?
Take care, and we may share. Maybe.
Did shortbutfat have to change his name to short but skinny?
Take care, and we may share. Maybe.
@RawMeat do you know much about timing of floods and how it affects with the following years morel crop?
The place I usually find a few grocery bags of morels has been zilch so far...It floods almost every year anymore(not sure what happened if the Corp changed their hold back or what), last year we had a late spring into early summer flood....
The place I usually find a few grocery bags of morels has been zilch so far...It floods almost every year anymore(not sure what happened if the Corp changed their hold back or what), last year we had a late spring into early summer flood....
In those areas you would find morels, did the flood knock out any trees? Living or dead? Was there any soil loss due to the flood?
Not many, usually drift dead wood, it’s a backup from Clearwater Lake...
Yeah this is a money spot. But I think I’m getting a pattern that late spring floods affect them more than winter/Summer.
Ofcourse more variables are in play!
I could tell from your posts that half you people are on shrooms.
Hope you're well Short.
Shrooms are crazy this year. Found a few in March (which never happens), then just a few more since. Have barely had enough for a fry. Several cold days coming up. Then, a warm up. We need to remain diligent.
Shrooms are crazy this year. Found a few in March (which never happens), then just a few more since. Have barely had enough for a fry. Several cold days coming up. Then, a warm up. We need to remain diligent.
I did the NFL Game Pass free trial that runs until the end of May. I also caved and bought a PlayStation. Haven’t owned a system since the old Super Nintendo. It’s been a major learning curve. Hope everyone is finding ways to get their fix in a world without a sports.
So I asked about the flood for a few reasons. I've been an avid morel hunter my entire life. While I was an undergraduate at UCM, there was a grad student doing his thesis on fungi. Needless to say, I pricked every corner of his brain at every opportunity. He often called morels the "princess of mushrooms" because they took so many factors before fruiting and will suddenly to stop, if any of these factors move outside the target range. Humidity, soil temps, soil moisture, ambient air temp, etc.
Now back to your flood. Morel spores often target dying or stressed trees, as these are much easier to colonize on. So if that flood killed or straight up removed any trees, that could explain your sudden loss of morels. Also, if there was any major soil displacement or soil deposits due to the flood, that is could be another reason.
If you're looking for new morel spots, look for trees growing where that species of tree shouldnt be growing. My family owns a farm NE of Carrollton and there is a white oak growing at the bottom of draw. That tree has given me 30-40 morels in some seasons.
Fun fact! Red morels AKA false morels, are poisonous and I wouldnt recommend eating them. Some places in the world do eat them but toxicity in red morels can vary. If you do choose to eat them, boil them outside first.
Bosko has really let himself go!
Tee'd it up on a railroad tie. In before "that's not me!"
Awesome info! I found one morel while on a Zoom meeting with my grade level team walking a ridge top. At the base of a white oak on a ridge top....the only one at that point.
That is 100% true. Red morels vary highly in toxicity from region to region and even specimen to specimen. And you are also correct about methyl hydrazine but it can become airborne. So always boil red morels outside.
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