My name is Bert and I’m a Weather Channel junkie. It started innocently enough; sneaking an occasional peek at the local radar. Then I found myself sticking around for the next Local on the 8’s just for the smooth jazz. The progression from there was steady and predictable: Glued, trance-like, to the couch for re-runs of ‘Storm Stories’ and ‘When Weather Changed History’; setting my alarm 20 minutes early to catch ‘Wake up with Al’ so I could get my morning Stephanie Abrams fix. … Continue reading this article “Confessions of a Weather Channel Addict”
Month: October 2010
Fungal fun continues!
The comments on Friday’s puzzle have certainly been imaginative! (Tribbles indeed!) But this weekend nature cooperated to give me some more information.
My little fungus family expanded over the weekend. As this photo shows, we definitely have a mushroom-type fungus:
Looking at a young member, you can see what look like stalked spores emerging from the gills:
And the edges of the mushroom curl upwards as the spore mass grows
until we end up with the black furry ball shown on Friday:
So the discussion continues: What the heck is this? … Continue reading this article “Fungal fun continues!”
Friday fungal fun
The answer to today’s puzzle will depend on YOU! I have no idea what this is. (I’m not a mycologist. And did you know that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants?)
Anyway. I found this on our wood chip mulch today. We always get interesting fungal fruiting bodies on wood chips – one year we even got morels. But I’ve never seen this type before.
If you can’t tell, these are round and furry. … Continue reading this article “Friday fungal fun”
Happy Days
Today is such a good day. Really good. Almost as good as my wedding day and the birth of my kids good. Better than the Eagles won the Superbowl good (I’m a big Philadelphia Eagles football fan — Mike Vick and his transgressions aside of course).
Just for today I don’t care much about the arguments for or against organics, natives or even my favorite topic, pesticides.
What’s the news you ask?
Peanuts. Hot Boiled Peanut.… Continue reading this article “Happy Days”