Domesticated mushrooms, and wood

The Fungi Perfecti mushroom kit is fruiting again. The first shot is from Thursday, the second, Friday. They grow a  lot in a day! We had one last night on open-faced sandwiches, broiled with cheese and sweet onions on homemade wheat bread. Mmmm.

Em and KC came up and we got another month of wood from our favorite DNR spot. We broke in the new Jonsered saw. Em says it goes through wood like buttah. Our old one (bought used on Ebay) turned out to be seriously dead.

 


KC cleaned the creosote out of the chimney topper, below. Em spent some time with the baby bunnies, and with Badeaux, our big red dog who doesn't have much time left. It was a good day.

A wood day

Em and Richard came up, and we took advantage of a chinook wind melting the snow away to hit the usual spot and get some firewood. Em ran the saw, C. and I hauled and loaded six-foot lengths, and Richard carried whole trees out of the woods.

The saw crapped out on us, though, and C. (our chainsaw mechanic) said it was going to take some serious time to get it running. So we tied the long logs to the roof of the car and took our two nearly full loads home. Besides, the warm winds had gone cold and dismal.

And the bunnies turned four days old. Em and I dragged them briefly from their warm nest to get some better photos.

 

The guineas took to the roof and buckWHEATed furiously into the wind. I don't know why.