Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

I'm happy to hear Judy is getting out, must be feeling better.

I thought the hen shrooms were orange and grew on oaks.

Orange ones are chicken of the woods = sulfur shelf .

 

[lvie]

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It could but now I am curious and making two more is no big deal. I will box them and mail them inside this time and we will see what happens. If he gets both then he will have four. No big deal. I am curious to see if the box arrives before the envelope.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Orange ones are chicken of the woods = sulfur shelf .

The picture Ralphie posted is just called hen, always that color grayish?

I've heard people call the orange ones on oaks hen of the woods. Is it "chicken of the woods" only then.?

 

[Rhetts]

Life plugs along here as usual.
Glad to hear @duluthralphie that Judy is getting some fresh air and @jerryse has gotten so many coons!!

So the temps for tomorrow night are predicted to be 38 degrees. I am wondering if I should go pick all the green tomatoes or hope the temps do not get that low. I do not have tarps enough to cover my garden so I would have to pick and choose who lives and who dies. Any suggestions?


Edited to say that I just checked temp forecast and it now says 36 for tomorrow night and 39 for Wednesday.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Rhett's keep watching the forecast but 36 won't give you frost. I'd think you're ok yet. But ripening doesn't happen as fast either, if u do pick you can wrap each green tomatoe in sheet of newspaper. They ripen in a week or so... Maybe less.

 

[Rhetts]

Rhett's keep watching the forecast but 36 won't give you frost. I'd think you're ok yet. But ripening doesn't happen as fast either, if u do pick you can wrap each green tomatoe in sheet of newspaper. They ripen in a week or so... Maybe less.

Ok thanks!

 

[duluthralphie]

The picture Ralphie posted is just called hen, always that color grayish?

I've heard people call the orange ones on oaks hen of the woods. Is it "chicken of the woods" only then.?

There are three different mushrooms:

chicken of the woods, Orange one you are thinking of.

Hen of the woods, the grey one I showed the picture of, I think it tastes better than chicken

Rooster of the woods, looks like immature chicken white and spongy. I have heard it is not very good.

BTW, I know where there are 6 more hens hiding they are all smaller.......

 

[Violetsfeathers]

This guy with his suction cup fingers was watching tv with us.


Or maybe on bug duty on my freshly washed windows.

Jerry I can't help feeling that the chloride on our back roads have harmed the frogs as well. Some deformities and such. Last year or so our township did quit doing chloride. It's expensive and it was cheaper to pay for loads of dirt and a more regular grader they told us. Also it will help with the rust factor on cars.

I found a tree frog with no eye, the top and bottom eyelids were attached to each other and there was a dip where the eyeball was supposed to be. There was no eyeball. It looked like it was born that way. Our pond gets runoff from the field. We have lots of leopard and tree frogs here too, and a few toads. One toad lived under the coop steps for a while.

 

[Minniechickmama]

@duluthralphie don't get too hung up on the little things. First look at your body type on your birds. Condition is the first thing the judge sees, next is how it feels, the body type, then the smaller things like the comb and wattles. Check the keel, the back, the pelvic bones and breast by handling. Open the wings and check those next. Then look at the face and head, and eyes. Are the eyes the right color? That is an easy thing to overlook sometimes. @holm25 could probably come down and show you how the showmanship handling goes, which is basically what the judges do. You can make yourself crazy trying to focus too much on some of the smaller points on the birds, sometimes leading to being too critical and then culling too hard. I know from experience

 

[MNChickMom]

Good morning all! 12:20am should take 1st place. Or is there a stipulation that you must go to bed.. .in which case I lose.