MO SHOES

i jogged my liver pretty hard this weekend AKA shut tha club down x2 and a packer game, yahurd? today was payback tuffguy megaman exercise day. 4.8 miles in 40 minutes! (yes, i drove the route afterwards to get the stats) pretty sure it's a new moon record. mid-route i heard some drunk dude exclaim "holy shit, was that the KARATE KID?!" Ralph Maccio-Yo! my bandana tonight was orange though.



i got some identification help with my mushrooms today. i'm pretty stoked that i nailed the genus of both specimens. turns out one is a Boletus mirabilis (aka admirable bolete) and the other might be a Russula xerampelina (aka shrip russula). both are considered choice edibles! the Boletus mirabilis is supposed to have a distinct lemony flavor and the Russula xerampelina is supposed to have a nutty flavor. might try the Boletus mirabilis tonight. gonna do some more reading on the Russula and set up a spore print tonight.


-Boletus mirabilis (growing on a dead chunk of hemlock)-



-Russula xerampelina??-


even after you correctly identify a mushroom as a safe one to eat you have eat a small amount and wait a few days to see if you have any alergic reactions. some people have negative reactions to the common wild mushrooms such as chantrelles. hopefully my tummy agrees with the Boletus i picked.

UPDATE: well i sliced up the Bolete mirabilis and it turns out the worms had already eaten some of my mushroom. i sauteed it up anyways and chewed on a few of the less worm holed pieces and spit 'em out. it tasted pretty damn good and there was a pretty distinct lemon taste! guess i'll have to find some more.

DON'T DOUBT THE CLOUT

switched up the routine this week. spent some time foraging instead of fishing. 3 trips to the mountains produced about 3 gallons of huckleberries and blueberries. picked some mushrooms too, one bolete and a few russelas (i think). might bring 'em in for some id'ing by a master tomorrow. if the species of russela i found are a a go (i.e. edible), i'll probably do some more hippie trips to the mountains this week. there's a lot of free food out thar and i'ma gonna find it.

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rad b-day party for hurricane marge last night. not usually a fan of belltown, but when you fill shorty's with a bunch of friends that 'hood is a lot more tolerable. gonna stay away from unlicensed cabbies for a while.

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didja know that if you leave 3 fish carcasses in the yardwaste bin during a week of 80 degree temps it turns into a gooey pile of maggots? it does. the smell isn't exactly pleasant. neigbors and roomates ain't too stoked with me right now. rdrr.

XMAS

it rained this morning. real monsoon-like rain, not the typicall light drizzle 'ooh ooh, it rains everday in seattle' sissy rain. given the crappy conditions, i figured this would thin out the fishing crowds. it did, just me and one other dude at lincoln park. too bad it was low tide and no schools were coming through. fished for an hour and a half and got skunked. got back to the truck and realized that some jacka$$ got an early christmas. that POS broke into my truck and made off with my ipod & radio transmitter and my snowboarding backpack. backpack was full of good stuff like: dutch harbor rain jacket, headlamp, xtools floating pliers, filet knife, compass, gloves, flashing red bike light, stringer, sunglasses, beef jerky, TP, licorice, and MY FAVORITE ORANGE HAT, etc. grrr. normally i bring my backpack with me, but it was raining so damn hard that i didn't want everything getting wet. never again.

LUCKILY, i recently took a bunch of stuff out of my backpack so that turkey DIDN'T get my camera, binoculars, first ait kit, 'survival' kit.

$500 deductible on renters insurance, so it may not even be worthwhile claiming this. dammit.

screwdriver key (sick pinstripes still intact)

in better news, after getting skunked 3 times in a row i finally got a food dehydrator off of craig's list. it's not a very good one. acutally, it's pretty much just a hair dryer that sits on some plastic racks. no temp settings, no timer, and it's kinda loud. it even came with one semi-dehydrated earwig in it. crap, at $10 i think i may have been ripped of. meh. looking forward to dehydrating some huckleberries. 'tis the season hippies.

here are some pictures that weren't stolen today:

ele-oh-ele. c'mon frumpy, don't be bummy cuz you got no chest mane.

soon 'nuf

LOCALS ONLY

nuts to this, off to the sloop.

OMG, HAT TRICK

I AM SUPERHERO

P.S. please find me that kid's shirt in my size. thx.

CARZ & BURGLARZ

yesterday a friend got his car stolen. today i found it. I AM AWESOME.