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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:41:03 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
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>Janet B. wrote:
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>> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 17:00:28 -0700, Taxed and Spent
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>> >On 4/9/2017 4:13 PM, sf wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 13:12:06 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
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>> >>> The Spring hunt for morel mushrooms, or as a pal posted on Facebook, "An Easter Egg hunt for adults..."
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>> >>> Anyone planning on "going mushrooming" for these elusive fungi...when I was a kid peeps would go out searching - some got lucky, more came back empty - handed...and you...???
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>> >> I'll hunt for mine at Costco.
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>> >I get mine at the end of Aesop's fables.

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>> I think it is too early and cold here.

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>I think it needs to be warm and humid/rainy for several weeks before morels "pop", here in the Midwest that is usually sometime in early May...
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>Where I grew up they were somewhat considered "poor food", something you'd forage for. Now, morels are gourmand's delight, very pricey wherever you can find them.



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our mountains are still getting snow. Washington and Oregon are
getting hammered with rain. Mammoth mountain ski area in California
has had 47 feet of snow this season. I think the season for the
Pacific Northwest morel is going to be late this year.
Janet US