08 September 2008

Squirrel Food


Lots of mushroom hunting lately - even the squirrels have been busy. Did you know that they will pick and dry mushrooms for the winter? Well they do. One year a dear friend and I went out to a cabin he had built (in Alaska) and had been away from for a year due to hip surgery. We went in spring and when we went to check out the outhouse we found it piled three feet high with dried mushrooms!

5 comments:

  1. I did know that those critter stock up on mushrooms. I grew up in the sticks, so you get to know that kind of stuff. :)

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  2. I had no idea! The image of an outhouse filled with mushrooms was enough to make me snort while drinking my coffee.

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  3. There's worse things an outhouse can be three feet deep in!

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  4. anonymous, yeah, to some of us it it's second "nature" to know it ;)

    amanda, yay! That was my aim! :)

    cath, indeed! I know this from personal experience.


    albatross, it is very cool.

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