When you live in the middle of effing nowhere and the air is sucking the moisture out of any living thing - finding mushrooms the size of small children in your front yard is a surprise! I pulled into my driveway the other day and spotted something pushing up the soil - dry, dead soil… I stopped, backed up, rolled down the window and asked Scott, “What the hell is that?!” It totally looked like flesh peeking out… *eeek* It’s freaking me out just talking about it! Scott says matter-of-factly, “They are mushrooms.” What?! I made him dig them up right then and there - because the idea of flesh peeking out of the ground was not something I could live with. He dug them out and I saw just how freaking massive they were! I mean good god how on earth does that happen?! Maybe I am a moron - but I was under the blonde (need a good excuse) impression that mushrooms (fungus) needed DAMP darkish environments to thrive…go figure!

I was informed that these are “toad stools” which are very dangerous (poisonous) and grow in grass… Hummm - again, we don’t have grass. A freak of nature I suppose. *smile*

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