Mushrooming

Apparently after a 1 year hiatus, I decided today that I wanted to write an entry again. Who's reading this, probably no one....That's OK!

Yesterday was a really fun Saturday of Memorial Day. We went to Jon's parents' house to watch his brother and sister-in-law, drill holes into a stump and plug it with mushroom spores...Let me explain.

Last summer, it was decided that the old(only about 35 years) old Maple tree in the back yard had to come down. It had a split trunk and parts of the tree were leaning over the house, a big storm could bring it down. Also the root system was starting to move some of the basement foundation walls. The tree came down last fall.

From Gardening

Now there is the stump. It's very large. It would be extremely expensive to get ground out. So, Stephen found a possible solution, inject the trunk with mushroom spores. Essentially, Mushrooms love dead trees to gown on. They will help decompose the tree as they grow.

Three types of spores were purchased, Maitaki, Lion's Head and Shitaki mushrooms. The first step is to drill the hole.

Step 2 is Plugging the hole. Trick is finding the actual hole amidst the sawdust.

Step 3 is melting wax to pour over them.

Step 4 is pouring the wax over them to seal in moisture.

Step 5: Check back between August and November if any spores have sprouted :)

A week of pictures(or just 2 days)

I can't get this to stop underlining!!!!

This is amy's tree :) With lights on in the room.

You'll see we're classic year.


and her manger scene :)



NOW for the reindeer run photos.
It's a fun run. A lot of people dressed up. So I bought a Santa Hat. BUT when we got out of the car, Bill didn't have a hat. So I wore my matching hat and sacrificed the fun to Bill. He looks better in it than I did!!

(PS I really liked the stucco on that house behind them)

Tecnavia Picture Pre-Race


Tecnavia picture AFTER the race.

It was a really good race I ran it in 40:50, in INCLEMENT Weather. Bill is a journalist, he's gonna write an article making it sound like an incredible feat.

Bill and Jim ran with me the whole time. That's it.

Those are the pictures from the week!