{"id":2889,"date":"2011-02-02T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2011-02-02T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:26:04","slug":"albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend (Jan 29\/30) we went on a mushroom foray at the Mendecino Coast<\/p>\n<p>Before we left. Leilani takes every chance to demonstrate how strong she is.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110128-big-bag.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-albion.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Over 70 participants met for breakfast in the big hall<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-breakfast.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some participants at the start of Phil&#8217;s foray<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-start-foray.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We started on a forest road<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-walking.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Belen found the biggest edible mushroom &#8211; a pigs ear.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-belen-pigsear.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-foray.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bicyclists had built ramps<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-ramp.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The end of the &#8220;official&#8221; foray. But we kept going until it was too dark to see.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-foray-end.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some of us kept going. Some just played.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-stumphouse.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-3kids.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The loot. Mostly yellow feet and hedgehogs<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-basket.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sonja&#8217;s happy.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-sonja.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All the species of mushrooms were presented in the lab. 217 total.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-lab.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-lab2.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These were not brought to the lab. I cleaned and cooked about 12 pounds (after cleaning, before cooking), that&#8217;s probably less than a third on the photo. Leilani actually protested the first non-mushroom meal in 3 days&#8230; and we have 5 portions frozen.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-mushrooms.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The kids played for a while, then they actually helped me clean the mushrooms.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-game.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday we went out on our own with Kelby, Belen and Sylvia. We doubled out loot.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110130-am-tower.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We had a freezing cold luncgh at this pretty spot<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110130-am-lunchspot.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We tried to make it to Kass creek, but the roads were closed and it was too far to walk. So we went to this pretty forest along 20 and picked some more mushrooms.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110129-am-forest.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110130-am-picking.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andy and Leilani played at the stream.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/1\/web\/110130-am-stream.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend (Jan 29\/30) we went on a mushroom foray at the Mendecino Coast Before we left. Leilani takes every chance to demonstrate how strong she is. 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