Boletes do stain blue-that’s a two-color bolete & edible ( & good!) I used to hunt all kinds of shrooms, but got lazy & stuck w/the boletus family- none will kill you, but the red sponge tubes (where the gills are on other shrooms) ones can make you pretty sick
And, BTW, psilocybin shrooms are LBM’s (little brown mushrooms). Anyone who has had a cow or horse manure pile would know about them. And, use because they’re LBM’s in a manure pile DOES NOT mean they’re good fun head food.
We mostly got the small psilocybin mushrooms, but I once scored a quarter pound of shrooms that were the size of silver dollars. I can only imagine the size of them before they were dried. And yeah, they were dynamite.
There's more than one species of psilocybe. The little brown mushrooms you're talking about are probably "liberty caps" which grow in the Northwest. But down in Texas they have stroph. cubensis which look like the one in the picture. Hippies in Oregon pick carefully through pasture grass looking for little shrooms. In Texas, they drive around at forty miles an hour because you can spot the big yellowish caps from a distance.
When I a pumper in the oil field (Texas) we had a landowner that would feed his cows on the wellhead pad when it was rainy. It was part of the lease that the pad was built over-sized and left intact for that reason because it was bottom land. Anyway, I pulled up one day to check the well and there were mushrooms galore. Picked almost two grocery sacks full, made a batch of tea, and took some to a party. Needless to say it was a wild time.
Knew several crews that did that back when I worked in radio and TV. Way more stones than me. The farthest I've been up a tower was 300 feet up a 900 foot tower Inspecting the feedline for a broadcast FM antenna that had been hit by lightning and was damaged. The local tower crew was out of town for a week on a job and the next closest crew would not be able to get there for another day and a half. That was not one of my most fun experiences as a chief engineer. When you are off the air, you do what you need to do. I don't even like climbing a ladder.
Yes, it is physically harder descending than it is ascending the tower.
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#2 When i worked at a tv station in DFW some years ago, i knew a few of these steeplejacks, and to a man they were all fearless. crazy fearless
ReplyDeleteThat .gif is a clip from a youtube video that is about 5 minutes long. Good stuff to watch
Delete#6 - Safely, if you don't mind silly cybin
Delete#3: The shooter should have....? #6: Take it that's not a mushroom you can safely eat?
ReplyDeleteThat's Stropharia Cubensis, and it's safe, if you don't mind tripping balls.
DeleteLooks like a bolete to me.
DeleteBoletes don't stain blue like that. That's a psilocybe.
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Delete'Admirable Bolete" (Boletus mirabilis) maybe.
Boletes do stain blue-that’s a two-color bolete & edible ( & good!) I used to hunt all kinds of shrooms, but got lazy & stuck w/the boletus family- none will kill you, but the red sponge tubes (where the gills are on other shrooms) ones can make you pretty sick
DeleteI'll be darned, you're right that some boletes stain blue. I did not know that.
DeleteBut I'm pretty sure that mushroom is a gill mushroom; you can see the torn gill after the first cut. Boletes don't have gills.
And, BTW, psilocybin shrooms are LBM’s (little brown mushrooms). Anyone who has had a cow or horse manure pile would know about them. And, use because they’re LBM’s in a manure pile DOES NOT mean they’re good fun head food.
DeleteWe mostly got the small psilocybin mushrooms, but I once scored a quarter pound of shrooms that were the size of silver dollars. I can only imagine the size of them before they were dried. And yeah, they were dynamite.
DeleteThere's more than one species of psilocybe. The little brown mushrooms you're talking about are probably "liberty caps" which grow in the Northwest. But down in Texas they have stroph. cubensis which look like the one in the picture. Hippies in Oregon pick carefully through pasture grass looking for little shrooms. In Texas, they drive around at forty miles an hour because you can spot the big yellowish caps from a distance.
DeleteWhen I a pumper in the oil field (Texas) we had a landowner that would feed his cows on the wellhead pad when it was rainy. It was part of the lease that the pad was built over-sized and left intact for that reason because it was bottom land. Anyway, I pulled up one day to check the well and there were mushrooms galore. Picked almost two grocery sacks full, made a batch of tea, and took some to a party. Needless to say it was a wild time.
Delete9 - who doesn't like roasted nuts?
ReplyDelete#10 - Yeah, I've been that drunk. too.
ReplyDelete#4 Looks like little brother is getting even for something
ReplyDelete#5 What does an elephant do? Whatever it wants to!
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#10 It's a spoon thing.
ReplyDelete#6 What is he showing us here?
ReplyDeleteWow man! Didn't you see it change color when he cut it? It does that to, like, your brain,
Deletetoo!
Osmosis...
DeleteBoletue truncatus mushroom.?
Delete#6 - That is what the mushroom does to the insides of your body after you ingest it.
Deletelook up blue staining bolete
Delete#3 Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you?
ReplyDelete#4 Future hit and run driver.
#8 Not her fault.
#10 Future democrat president.
#3 If you're firing a large caliber gun, you better have a good fuckin grip on the gun...oh, wait, nice hat, asshole...
ReplyDelete#3 Hands too small for the grip.? inadequate hand strength.
Delete#1 Proof some dogs are jerks.
ReplyDelete#3 Contact juggling. Very creative!
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ReplyDelete#2 The phrase "not enough money in the world" comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteI read those guys get paid up to $25k to change a single bulb.
DeleteI got paid very well to climb a tower. My highest climb was 320 meters. Climbing down is harder on you physically than climbing up.
DeleteKnew several crews that did that back when I worked in radio and TV. Way more stones than me. The farthest I've been up a tower was 300 feet up a 900 foot tower Inspecting the feedline for a broadcast FM antenna that had been hit by lightning and was damaged. The local tower crew was out of town for a week on a job and the next closest crew would not be able to get there for another day and a half. That was not one of my most fun experiences as a chief engineer. When you are off the air, you do what you need to do. I don't even like climbing a ladder.
DeleteYes, it is physically harder descending than it is ascending the tower.
Have you considered taking a parachute down?
Delete#2, funny how women complain they don't get paid enough, but hey never do jobs like that either....
ReplyDelete"Kenny, is that you up there??"
ReplyDeleteI think the kid in 10 was eating mushrooms
ReplyDelete#9 The Killer would be laughin'....Goodness gracious,Great balls of fire!
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