A trip to stone hollow gardens & shroomery

Susie and I hit the mid-week market and made plans to visit Christopher, Emily and the Kids on Friday

A few wrong turns getting there

Christopher took us around and showed us some of the various ways in which he propogates shrooms

From beds of mushrooms 

to racked up logs 

 A peek inside the shroomery

FROM MIGHTY OAKS

Well, It's that time of year again.....Homecoming week.

and the schools neighbor got hit again.

Todays lesson was Acorns Alive.  We collected acorns and explored what lives inside.

So, these kids don't have a very strong gang symbol game.  

I guess that's not a bad thing

Tonight Maxine and I hiked the timber looking for fall mushrooms

We checked out large old oaks that were over a 100 years old looking for hen of the woods and chantrells

 No luck but a good walk among some mighty oaks

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS

Tuesday after school.  The drive in.

The one that didn't get away.

It seems like fish always get larger when you don't catch them.

Dog days with the govenor

Gary and Frits

The drive out on my way to the next party

The girls celebrated Susies birthday a week late at Felderman park

and guess who else was invited?

Dam, I made it to friday

Wet a line for lunch.

Cocktails and dinner at Brazen

Saturday morning farmers market

 What do ya think?

It's a blue tailed skink.

Chinking Tyme.

It's a cool saturday morning.  So, after building a small fire in the polebarn I walked down toward the gardens to see what project I'll be working on next.

So, I mixed up a batch of mud for chinking for the shed down below

My chinking recipe is 45 o/o  blue clay,  45o/o yellow clay loam mix form under the house and while most traditional mixes us a straw horsehair mix I use tyme.  Why tyme?  because I've got nothing but time ....

Why elce would you do this.

Another trip down to harvest

Carrots for tonights roast chicken

And lettuce too,

Chinked

 

CAR ISSUES,

My early morning hike but not by choice.

On the way to work 

the subaru broke down two miles away from home

I got the kids outside for some social distancing 

With the subaru broke down that means going with plan B.  the Bus.

So I'm still having alturnator issues but I managed to make it from bellevue to maquoketa to DBQ.

Slip the belt back on and back down to Bellevue

It might be here for a bit

But its not the worst place to be.