Friday, March 11, 2016

Mud Season

It has been an extraordinarily mild winter in Crankyville, something for which I'm inordinately grateful. Even so, the return of spring-like weather brings a definite uptick in moods; even the irascible neighbour who calls out the gas company in the middle of the night for entirely ludicrous reasons stepped out of his front door with a smile on his face. Who says miracles no longer exist?

Along with warmer temperatures, we get plenty of this:


Which leads to rain and these beauties, yellow morel mushrooms (my favourites)!


Eventually, it will lead to more of this:


That's right, gardening season is just around the corner... which means (hide your eyes Mitchell) fresh from the garden cookery will commence! Oddly enough, I don't seem to be living up to my blog name very well just now, despite the political situation in the States. Ah well!

Florid, but appropriate:


27 comments:

  1. Yes what was that Cranky thing all about?:):) Hug B

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    1. Oh I'm still Cranky about a lot of things, just not about the warmer temperatures. =)

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  2. Oh, I LOVE the cookery (and seeing my name, narcissist that I am). I just fall asleep 4 seconds into a recipe.

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    1. Mitchell, mitchell, MITCHELL; there you go, all set up for the weekend!

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  3. I adore morels. I cook them with butter and garlic and toss over angel hair pasta.

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  4. Morels - we used to find them by the bucketsfull when we lived in Georgia. Heavenly.

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    1. I adore morels, can't hunt them anymore dagnabbit!

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  5. My Rare One has her garden all planned out already. Oh, and she's purchased the seeds. Still at least 2 months away from planting though.

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    1. I'm planning, collecting, and applying compost.

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  6. Spring must be great if it can make cranky neighbors relate

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    1. We're fine, as long as we don't actually speak to one another.

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  7. I am so thankful for the easy winter.

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    1. You need something to be easy in your life right now. *hugs*

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  8. I've never seen such mushrooms. How different life would be for us if we could complain about rain.

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    1. They have such naughty colloquial names Andrew... When I was young the yellow morels were called peckerheads. Their smaller, greyish-brown cousins were called dog peckers.

      Yum yum?

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  9. Selectively Cranky. Which is just saving precious energy.
    Love those mushrooms. And, like Andrew, long to be able to bitch and moan about the rain.

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    1. Right now, only politics is bringing out my truly Cranky nature.

      I hope you and Andrew soon receive the rain you're longing for.

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  10. Crankyville! Love it. Also love the mushroom picture.

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  11. I could eat a ton of those mushrooms, followed by a dozen garden grown tomatoes. and I would die happy!

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    1. Leave room for perfectly ripe peaches, fresh from the tree!

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  12. I tried to listen to the Vivaldi, but the violin is just too squeaky to my ears, had to give up in less than a minute.
    Are those mushrooms edible or merely decorative? They certainly are pretty.

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    1. Very much edible, River. In the 'you stepped onto my territory and stole one of my mushrooms so we're going to have to fight' category of edible.
      True story.

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  13. I'm not supposed to tell...but my husband is trying to build up a habitat for morel mushrooms. We'll see if it works out.

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C'mon, be cranky and let 'er rip!