I’m sure we would!
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Looks familiar! We often do mushroom gathering walks/hikes as a family this time of year. Luckily everybody also loves to eat them.
There’s something inherently primitive and satisfying in foraging berries and shrooms. And I haven’t even started talking about fishing and hunting.
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The orange/yellow ones are called Sulphur Shelf. Some call them “chicken of the woods” but I don’t get the analogy.
It is widely distributed so you may run into them in your neck of the woods. ← 
The grayish one is locally called sheeps head and hen of the woods, but once again, the analogy escapes me.
Both very tasty!
I do get a lot of satisfaction out of foraging too. I like to exercise the whole brain, and my mind seems to really like it too. I have much better clarity of thought and sense of well being when I get out and get attuned to nature.
I like fishing too. You probably have some good north atlantic salmon fishing too! I’m landlocked in Pennsylvania, but we have tons of fishable creeks and rivers (3 of them, right dahn tahn!) .
I’ve fly fished for a long time, and worked in the business side for a while. I really love getting out into the mountains and cold spring creeks.
I’m so-so on hunting. A little gun shy in my own peculiar way. Bad history with guns. Nothing legal, but very personal. I haven’t practiced in a while, but pretty lethal with a bow last time I checked.
The fungi species seem partly different. I know fairly bit eatable plants and mushrooms, but haven’t seen ”sheeps heads” or ”chickens” around here. Do you have boletus there?
Exactly!
Yeah. Kinda. Our salmons are almost extinct due to stupid enviromental policies. But we are a land of a thousand lakes. There’s water everywhere, and not many people around. So, many different tasty species to catch and devour.
According to my wife, the gym is a better hobby than fishing. Even though I bring food home, I can be 8-10 hours away wandering around scenic landscapes while searching for fish. Time flies on the boat!
I’m not a experienced hunter either. But I have hunted couple times with my friends. I’ve been considering getting a hunting license and a rifle, but I don’t have the time for another endeavor currently.
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Oh yeah! Not like you guys get, but there’s pretty good variety and proliferation throughout the Appalachian mountain chain. I’ve seen some of the blooms you guys get, and they are impressive.
A couple of my favorites- “Old Man Of The Woods” .
Weird looking, and tasty. I really like the subtle Fibonacci cochlear design of the scales. A bit of that natural/sacred geometry.
Frosts Bolete, not edible but I like that deep red cap and alien like stem.
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The aesthetical and gastronomical variance between mushrooms is insane.
An example from here, Hydnellum peckii. Not edible, but just look at it!
Actually, mushrooms are insane. The stuff they do is straight from scifi books.
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Oh yeah. I love that about them. I just happen to be in an awesome location for them.
An oldish one of my kiddo in a morel patch. 
. I love that one.
Yeah. They’re a very strange but foundational life form of our planet.
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Definitely. I did just read Merlin Sheldrake’s (a mycologist) Entangled life. It was a good read.
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I haven’t read much on them lately, but there are some fascinating theories being floated lately. One guy out in the pacific northwest, Paul Stamets, has been doing a lot to promote a better understanding of them.
I used to do a lot of the hallucinogens, but not micro dosing like they’re encouraging.
I like MACRO dosing! Like being in orbit for a day or two! 
Thats a young mans game. A young man with no fear of consequences or brain damage.
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Another walk in the woods.
Found this!
Must have lost it when I was like 12, out there smokin that weed or something.
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Got busy and almost forgot, today marks 23 years sober. October 5, 2002.
Thanks to many great people that helped along the way. 
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I’m going to make a fancy hammer. The head is 2½ lbs. and the handle is 4130 steel from a linkage or hinge pin on one of the machines.
I’m thinking of woven suede handle, and some kind of Viking rune carved into it and filled with brass to make shiny.
Its name will be Sluggo, short for "The SluggoMatic Thumbfucker 5000 ™ ".
Gotta finish the welding and polish it up real nice & stuff. I’ll post afters too when its done.
Also settled on a cool design for a wicked fantasy type sword with large serrations on both sides of the blade. Just need to make better use of my “spare time”.
Hand pic included for scale.
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Mighty Thor…
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My tree buddy is a straight up berserker. He swats steel with a hammer so hard, I swear you can hear it scream.
We break “unbreakable” stuff way too often for even our own liking. 
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How did I miss this? What was I doing 29 days ago??
Happy anniversary and well done!
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Thank you! 
Lets see? October 5th, 29 days ago- according to your log you were having an awesome arms day and considering taking a pic. 
You’ve provided a lot of stable, sensible and good natured advice and companionship over these years, and definitely deserve a piece of the “many great people that helped along the way” pie.
So, thank you for that too. 
. I love that you’re one of the people who truly gets the gratitude thing.
Ah yes, the day of the slightly visible muscle!
Thank you, but to be fair I count that as one of my unearned blessings. I think I just lean toward gratitude and optimism as a personality thing, whereas I think people in recovery have to develop it from scratch. So I “get it” in terms of recognizing its value (I’m grateful that gratitude comes so easily to me, haha) but you get all sorts of extra credit for the work you did to install that as an aftermarket feature.
Thank you for your stable, sensible, and good natured advice over the years as well. You make my weird little world a better place!
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Look into the Dactyls and go that route. It seems fitting. Metalsmiths who lose fingers for knowledge.
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They’re pretty neat. I like this symbol for Helios. (Heli-arc)
Minimalist abstract Kraken (namesake)
Similar rune for heritage
I’ll probably run them past my brother. He’s very artistic and can come up with some cool stuff.. Much more capable than I am. And I have to be able to carve it into that metal.
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I think this is my favorite. If we are voting here. Lol. If you want order of favorites it would go 2,1,3. You are welcome for my unsolicited opinion.
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