The wonderful gentleman who gave us the chanterelle mushrooms offered to take ash and i out to pick some more with he and his son. I had to work but ash took photos of her adventure and will post a blog below about it too:
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Ash's Blog: I got up early and went mushroom hunting with our internet guy and his step-son. His son's name was Johnny and he was the cutest little red headed child I had ever seen in my life and smart as a whip. I was immediately given a bright orange vest to wear as it is hunting season here. We drove just up the road from our house and traversed some really rocky, steep roads, but all in 2wd. Bill was searching deep within the forest from the road trying to spot those beautiful pumpkin colored tops. After about ten minutes he saw some and we stopped the car and went out hunting. We were accompanied by their dog shadow who couldn't wait to step all over the mushrooms. Bill said "where there is some, there's more." We didn't have to search far and we came across several pods of them all clustered together. Johnny and I dashed to retrieve them, falling onto our hands and knees and crawling under and over brush to get to some of them. This sequence of events happened several times, until eventually all of our bags were full and we couldn't carry any more. . .about 15 pounds worth. Johnny and I were completely covered from head to toe in forest foliage and we couldn't have been happier. We even found a salamander! I couldn't wait to come home and show Kris all I had gathered and to take her the next day.
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