Shroomin and such!

Well, my daughter and I made our annual trip to see a very good friend of mine in Quaker City Ohio yesterday to spend the day picking mushrooms.  We got to my friend Richard's house just after ten.  We planned this trip a couple of weeks ago.  We are used to getting wet as it seems to rain every year when we go to see him.  However, it is usually warmer than 40 degrees out.  With the warm winter and even warmer spring we have had I expected it to be quite nice.  It was 78 on Friday when I got home from work and loaded everything up. 

 We had to improvise some ponchos to deal with the cold rain!

We took our new atv with us to allow us to access more places easier but we spent most of the time using the truck to get around.  We tried taking the atv's out after lunch as the radar showed the rain clearing out and it had stopped so we thought we were good to go.  However, less than five minutes after we headed out it really started raining and we got soaked.  My daughter was  little trooper though and we got through all our spots and back to the truck to change and warm back up. 

We did find 44 morels total.  Not as good as last year but they were all really nice 4-7 inches tall and clean so we were not let down.

 My buddy let us bring them all home to make it worth the trip and we all had fun even though we got soaked and froze our butts off.  I am planning a solo trip down to hunt with him again next weekend in the hopes that the rain and the upcoming warm weather will kick them into higher production by then. 



Some quick updates:

Legacy is doing well and with the addition of his new friend Pearl (Precious' calf) he seems to be enjoying life so far. 

Mario got another pedicure this week.  His feet are looking pretty good now.  One more trimming and he should be back to where he needs to be.  The Farrier said that he was showing signs of getting too much grain after he got done trimming his feet.  I have noticed him getting into the pig feed lately so I put him back out with the cows after we got done.  He seemed to like that change as he quickly trotted out into the pasture and started checking out the new calves.

We ground another batch of pig feed today.  They are eating 2200#'s in three weeks now.   I sold all the babies from the last three litters except for two.  One of those two we are raising for a roaster pig for my buddy Richard and the other we are keeping here to fatten out.  Mallory is due on the 5th and Marshmallow is due on the 24th.  I can't wait to see what Marshmallow's first litter looks like. 

While I was waiting for Josh to bring the mixer to make pig feed I decided to button up a couple more items in the pig barn.  I properly reattached the rubber flaps to the bottom of the doors and moved the one wall mounted feeder to a better position.  I also opened up the doorway to the cattle pasture for the pigs.  They quickly found out and spent the entire day out in the big pasture with the cows.  I am hoping that letting them out there gets them to stop tearing up the barn as they have been getting more destructive the longer they have been couped up. 

Hope everyone has a great week. 

Kenny