No scooterizing today, today was for mushroom hunting

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

Drove a long way to a large public forest today for some mushroom hunting. No safe places for a parked bike and many of the roads were covered with water and mud anyway. We found a pound or two but it looked like many had been there before us. Although I've got better places to hunt them, this is a place I can take a bud to and I was hunting with a riding buddy.

My Mom and Dad loved mushroom hunting. They were as passionate about it as I am about motorcycling, shooting and deer hunting. Many times Mom would be in the woods by daylight so she could get in a short mushroom hunt before work. Then she'd head back to the woods with Dad and I after school and work released us. On the weekends, we would hunt all day during the short season.

We found enough to eat them every day during the season and froze enough for Dad to pack a mushroom sandwich in his lunch box once a week for the rest of the year. Those were great days, with the great parents I was so lucky to be born to. And it was a simpler time, when a kid could go out into the world and have fun, learn some common sense and be left the hell alone if he wasn't doing anything too wrong.

So, on my way home today, I stopped by their graves and left a mushroom on their tombstone. They would have liked it better than flowers I think.

[Highbinder]

We also went out and did some picking this week.....these beautiful Morels grow right behind the house.....the black ones were a little lower down the mountain...free food always taste better and no pecticides either..

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We also went out and did some picking this week.....these beautiful Morels grow right behind the house.....the black ones were a little lower down the mountain...free food always taste better and no pecticides either..

Bloody hell!!!

Makes me gout inflame just thinking about mushrooms. I like mushrooms !!!

[Hook#3287]

Frye, nice post.

[Jim Ross]

Neat post!
I grew up in NW Indiana and share many of your memories.
We are waiting out the cold weather so we can go up to North Idaho and hunt morels.  Today, my friend from there called and said they are just starting to find a few, so we will probably head out in a couple of days.   Winter just would not quit this year, we had 22 degrees 2 mornings ago.  All we need are a couple of 70 degree days!!!

[alph]

i remember when i was little, riding with my parents going down country roads when all of a sudden my mother would scream in italian, and my father would stop, pull out his pocket knife, run across the road, jump the fence and cut a huge mushroom off the north side of a mossy tree.  mom would cook it up and we'd feast on it. 

my parents use to live in italy during WWII, they learned to eat just about anything, and when they did, they also learned how to make it taste EXCELLENT!!  growing up, my parents would have us kids eating stuff that we had no clue what it was, then they'd tell us afterwards, sometimes that was a good thing!!

[czuch]

Good story Mr. Frye.
The only mushroome I've hunted you had to eat after you got outta the pasture.
 Otherwise you wouldnt get outta the pasture.

[Jabba]

I stopped by their graves and left a mushroom on their tombstone. They would have liked it better than flowers I think.

That's VERY cool dude.

VERY VERY cool.  We're finding a fair number of shrooms, but nothing to write home about.

Jabba

[fudgie]

Been kinda cold and cloudy up here still. Some are finding them tho.