I have always been curious how old man of the woods taste? It looks like a roasted marshmallow, and is very puffy, I feel like the texture would be odd.

I have "backed" a couple of their projects. Big fan of Steve and the team.

One of the gifts was a 128gb thumb drive which at this point is probably about the amount of money I sent their way.

Whatever the length of travel on that suspension was, it was not enough. Wild picture.

Most critters want nothing to do with you. Your poke it till it leaves strategy is a sound one. Just don't corner it and give it an easy way out. If it is an opposum they play dead which I am sure you are aware of. So if you spook it good it will lay there, then after awhile it will start moving again and take off.

I agree though that keeping it away might be the trickier part but I have no experience on that realm.

Earlier today I evicted a groundhog from my backyard so I feel your pain.

Rhodesian FAL is on my dream list. I love those guns.

I already own some rugby shorts so I am 50% there.

These stipes give me the heeby jeebys, great find!

They look like Mica caps(Coprinellus micaceus) to me. Were they sparkly by chance?

I have been bringing some home the past couple weeks as well. I like them in sauces mostly as they do not have a strong flavor in my opinion. Whenever it is muggy and I am sweating outside, I know it is time to hunt chanterelle.

I have paw paw seeds out the ass and already vernalized. If anyone is actually interested I can send you some.

I am in a similar scenario as you are living in a more rural location. I started with hand held devices that I would take in my car to see if it was worthwhile to continue exploring. I ended up finding many people around me but I could not reach them from my house. I ended up using an old TV antenna at my house to run a node up on that gave me access to my broader community. I live in the flat Midwest so went with a high DB antenna and it has worked great.

My thoughts are nix the dedicated car based module and go straight to a high location after hand held. Height is king for Meshtastic.

My last note is be aware of antennas you use as higher DB is not always the best. Higher DB means the sensitivity of the antena becomes flatter and more perpendicular to the horizon(in standard installations) where as lower DB radiates in a big bubble.

So if you are in very mountainous terrain very high DB antennas are not always best as they do not handle elevation changes great but rather blast out to the horizon which may not be useful. Also if you have a hill blocking you, your are out of luck. Think of Meshtastic as basically line of sight.

If you have any questions fire away and I can share what I know, I am not an expert by any means but I have got my hands dirty.

Nope, these guys are a choice edible. You are probably thinking of gyromitra genus.

Confirming paw paw. I ate so many last fall I got sick for days. I love paw paw and make a ice cream out of them every year.

This is a staple of Menards. When I die I hope I wake up in a Menards store front, smelling cut pine with a Sprechers in my hand.

One addition, you do not have to break the bank on any of this. If you are tech savvy and can do basic soldering I would suggest piecing your nodes together yourself. If you are looking at the 100 dollar solar nodes you can do that for much much cheaper yourself with a bit of work.

I am late to this party but that knife looks great.

Hey I am looking for may pointers you have. We had a huge storm roll in and knocked down some huge trees on my property. I am planning on going into the woods and grabbing some oaks, lines and walnuts to replace them. Any tips on transplanting?

Beautiful picture. My car setup if my handheld on my dash and a USB feeding it power if it needs to recharge. It has worked well for me

I was out fishing the other day and spotted these guys. They smell amazing. Thanks for sharing these.

That is interesting. I have some weird gymnopilus that I does not fit cleanly into a species(I am probably missing something honestly), I will have to look into that program to finally find out. Thanks for passing that along.

I love these. The shine and feel of the lacquered bits is nice.