A day that feels like... nothing at all.

[alexpgp]

I did get a small job today that is due Thursday by noon. However, because Galina is going to leave for Houston tomorrow to catch our departing tenant before he makes tracks into history, I put the pedal to the metal for most of the late afternoon and this evening to lay a goodly chunk of it down on phosphor, seeing as it's going to be just me and Drew at the store for a couple of days.

I am ambivalent about Galina's going. I don't like the idea, but she's the one with the Texas real estate license.

In other news Feht reports that the usual mushroom haunts do not seem very productive, although that's based on apparently one recent trip. It could be that the season is over, or it could be that last year's lack of rain poorly affected this year's crop. Or it could be that after today's thorough soaking, the woods'll be full of fungus this weekend. We'll see. The climate is against us, as it is starting to become uncomfortably cold out there, and there are reports that the mountains already have a dusting of snow on them. Hopefully this will be an excellent year in that department.

I napped a short while in the bed while Galina was watching whatever it was on TV earlier this evening. Some show on the Sci-Fi Channel hosted by Richard Belzer, with Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo as part of a panel of "experts" (on what, I wondered, half asleep)... must've been a new horror series.

Speaking of which, now that the work day is done down in the office, maybe I should mosey on upstairs to see what Galina is doing, and then to bed. Big day tomorrow. (Aren't they all?)

Cheers...

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

Hello Alex.

I have some Russians commenting to my photographs of mushrooms that I posted here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/found_objects/777466.html?view=6576378#t6576378). I found that one of them also speaks Spanish, so I tried commenting back.

I have no idea what's being said, although it's probably nothing

I thought if you had a free moment, you might check it out.

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry the link i gave you was for a thread just underneath the Russians' comments.

Here's the link for the top of the page:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/found_objects/777466.html

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right. It's nothing. The items with a translation are pretty much self-explanatory; the items without translation are basically more of the same.

Cheers...

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

thanks,

my friend Ivan helped out with the translation, which was interesting, but like you said, nothing that i could really respond to.

i am a little interested about the one fellow's pickling method, but i've read about a Russian pickling method for milk caps that was nothing more than packing them in rock salt.

i read your post about your shaggy manes find. congratulations! i've never found them this far North. i've seen them down in South Colorado, but i had no way of cooking them that day, thus i have never eaten them.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Burying mushrooms in salt seems to be a popular method of preserving them, but I've never quite been a fan. I tried it with some chanterelles last year, and the result - in my opinion - was horrid. If I wanted to eat any of them, I found I had to soak them for a while, to get the salk down to some manageable level.

As for myself, I've been reading your mushroom posts as well, with a touch of quiet envy, and a burning desire to get out into the woods. Maybe I'll be able to do that today, after the store closes. :^)

Cheers...

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

You'd better get to it, before the snow falls!
I haven't been having much luck at low elevations this year. Above 8500 is where all the action is!