Noice !
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Yum ?
Harvest is 3-4 weeks behind normal due to a wet spring. The majority of the beans are dead ripe and testing 11-13% moisture which is just right. However, they’re small. Test weight will be good but yield will be less than normal.Love wild mushrooms!
Grew up eating a lot of fried morels.
@tnichols
Is it getting dry enough by you to start picking corn? Should be about right moisture by now I reckon.
Ft Canby is renowned for "those" Shrooms. We get probably half a dozen people every year pinched with lbs of them.
View attachment 7164403
Hahaha, the things people do sometimes. What's the charge for getting caught with a pound of those?
Hahaha, the things people do sometimes. What's the charge for getting caught with a pound of those?
I don't know the charge, but you will be spending at least one night in the care of Lulu the jailhouse matron.
I don't know the charge, but you will be spending at least one night in the care of Lulu the jailhouse matron.
Bout the same here in NE Nebraska. I haul for a farmer who lost the bridge 1/2 mile from his place. Now the trip from field to bin is 2 1/2 miles. Like you said beans are small but bushels are good. Corn is wet, in the mid 20's so it will be awhile. He lost his rifle & pistol range but we have them back up. Due the bridge out the rifle range is 800 down from the 1400 it was. Looking at a remote camera system to save the long drive to check targets. Anyone have any ideas on a good system?Harvest is 3-4 weeks behind normal due to a wet spring. The majority of the beans are dead ripe and testing 11-13% moisture which is just right. However, they’re small. Test weight will be good but yield will be less than normal.
Corn is all over the place as the planting dates were as much as 4-5 weeks apart. Silage cutting for the most part is complete. Harvest of commercial corn is just starting. Moisture levels are high still. No reports of yield numbers, but I suspect it will vary by a fair amount. Weather wise, it’s been a weird year.
All this wet snow and rain has pretty shut down all shooting activity for awhile. Staying close to the house keeping an eye on the Child Bride. One of the last boxes to get taken care has a few of our print collection, getting them back in place this AM.
View attachment 7164530
When I'm not around the Duke keeps a eye on things for me. Grainy photo, best I could do without glare.
The Child Bride is feeling better...
View attachment 7164531
Homemade Buns!!
At thee very least. We had a Father and Son (19) in a couple yrs ago. They came all the way from California just to pick shrooms at Ft Canby. Dad admitted it was his idea. I congratulated Dad for pinning his Sons 1st Felony on him, then proceeded to chew his ass for a good 5 min tirade. Fucked his Son up more ways than one. ?
Late afternoon view of east central Iowa. A little exercise for the ol’ wreck prior to it’s annual inspection.
View attachment 7164333
Late afternoon view of east central Iowa. A little exercise for the ol’ wreck prior to it’s annual inspection.
View attachment 7164333
At what point does it go from just a thing growing on a week old cow turd to a felony? If they picked one off an old turd and ate it on the spot, felony? I just don't see why there's a law against picking things off turds and eating them. Let them eat turds!
| ||
tigerminou Stranger https://www.shroomery.org/forums/newrating.php?id=390227 Registered: 09/21/16 Posts: 17 Loc: PNW Last seen: 6 months, 30 days |
| |
Now that we're heading into October and the PNW shroom season is kicking into high-gear, I want to give a word of warning to anyone who hasn't gotten it yet--DON'T GO PICKING AZURES IN CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT STATE PARK!!! The Azures are there in abundance. So are the cops. Maybe you'll get lucky, pick a bunch and get home safe and sound, but if you get busted, you WILL be convicted of a felony! Doesn't matter if you've never been arrested for anything before, doesn't matter what you've been contributing to society when you're not out picking shrooms. Don't think that carrying around a camera or saying you're doing mycology "research" or anything like that will get you off. If you've got azures on you (or in a bag you left on the ground reasonably close to you), you're done for. The rangers have probably been watching you picking shrooms with binoculars from hundreds of yards away for the last half-hour (they know that bag is yours and you just dropped it when you saw them coming up). You may not spend more than a night or two in jail, but you will be a convicted felon when they're done with you! And being a convicted felon sucks! It sucks REALLY BAD!!! I was new to this whole scene last fall, having taken a decade-long break from all psychedelics. Got into mushroom hunting, found some cyans in a park by my place in Portland, had a blast with them, thought finding Azures on the coast sounded so cool, read up on where they grew and how to ID them, but missed some of the word already out there that Cape Disappointment was really dangerous. Had a nice getaway with the girlfriend in a cabin in the park planned, was an absolutely beautiful fall weekend, picked some delicious Boletes in the morning that we ate for lunch. I went out for azures in the afternoon while the girlfriend took a nap. Had maybe ten on me when a ranger SUV pulled right up on me. First arrest ever. Spent the rest of the weekend in the Pacific County jail, got charged with felony possession, eventually pled guilty because they were threatening me with a couple months in jail. I've got split custody of my two young kids, which I would've lost, would've lost my home...figured taking the plea meant I'd only lose my job. Which I did. At the beginning of February. I'm still out of work. People up here are real progressive, they're all for criminal justice and drug law reform, they really feel for your situation, think you got screwed, really hope you can get that shit expunged from your record, but, you know, there's a company policy about hiring a convicted felon, so sorry, etc. etc. I don't know anything about the rest of Long Beach or Ilwaco or anywhere else up there, if they get patrolled in the same way as the state park. Maybe not? But if you do get busted, you'll still be dealing with prosecuting attorney and horrible human being Mark McClain, who doesn't believe in misdemeanor charges for shroom possession. Don't know how they handle this stuff on the Oregon side. either, though Oregon did do away with felony charges for simple possession this year, at least if you don't have any prior drug felonies. So if they do bust you in Fort Stevens or thereabouts, you'll probably only be looking at a misdemeanor on your record, which could still suck, but will be better! Don't know why the rangers in Cape Disappointment and the Pacific County DA feel like busting shroom pickers is the best use of their time and resources, but it seems like they do. I really don't want to have to read anymore accounts of people getting busted up there. Getting arrested for picking shrooms sucks, becoming a convicted felon for picking shrooms sucks...there's no shortage of wonderful shrooms growing all over the PNW, Cape Disappointment is just too dangerous a place to chance it. Just my opinion, though based on relevant experience. Be careful out there... |
It is. Having grown up on a farm 60 miles NW of here, it’s a set up for a repeat of last fall. Rain, mud, snow, etc... With good neighbors around us, my hope is the same as yours.That's a lot of standing crop out there. Hope they can get to ASAP.
Great spot to shoot. That bench is NEW!Got off work a lil early to go play around. Shooting clay pigeons at 500yds. Good times!View attachment 7164781
View attachment 7164783
Oh yeah. We built one for our range and decided to build a mobile bench too. It is actually in the back of a truck. Plan to put an umbrella on it. Haha My buddy's favorite pastime is groundhogs hunting. I believe his record is a 450yd kill.Great spot to shoot. That bench is NEW!
Would have expected you to have a grille more in this style......