A Use For The Mushrooms

  Finally, we have found a use for these thousands and thousands of mushrooms that keep popping up all over the hillside.  The nigh on daily rains of all summer have produced as myriad of mushrooms.  We have just about every size, shape and color growing everywhere!  I kept pondering just what was going to happen to all of these things and, finally, a use has been discovered.  It is now apparent that some of the 'shrooms are edible...at least, they are edible for turtles...or we have a very daring turtle...or a very stupid turtle...whatever.  

  Early this morning as we were walking to the pier, Mark called my attention to a box turtle munching away on a rather large mushroom.  The turtle looked at us for a moment and then continued his meal.  He seemed rather intent of finishing the mushroom before being interrupted.  So we let him be.  After we finished our walk to the pier, we checked once again and found that the turtle did, indeed, eat the entire mushroom but at this point, the critter was no where to be found.  That said, I sure hope that turtle knew what he was doing or he might be getting a bellyache!

  While I find the mushrooms interesting and some of them downright pretty, I have yet gotten the nerve to munch one.  I have no idea which are edible and which are poisonous so I will steer clear of the forest of fungus growing in the yard.  I will leave them for the critters!