For those of you who missed Friday's meeting - you missed a good one. We had a full house with the RYLA students. And it seems that either the new venue and/or the charging for every meal has helped bring our average attendance back up. I think we have had 35 plus people each week,He
Steve Reick presented an interesting Fun & Frolics on morel mushroom hunting. He shared some of his personal experience of hunting for morels in the aisles of Parisian grocers (one jarred morel cost $15 in 2001 - which would be $26 today) and his backyard (I won't share those particulars.) He shared some from a Northwest Herald article that was published back in March - https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2023/03/24/mushroom-hunters-say-mchenry-county-is-hotbed-for-elusive-morel-and-more/
And he shared from his favorite website - Grandpa Shorter's - which happens to be a website for Petoskey Michigan provision, gift and wisdom. You still have time to preorder your Mother's Day gift basket.
One important tidbit Steve shared is don't eat the purple morels - they'll kill you. Not to be confused with - https://youtu.be/uzFongNGuQM
Back to the RYLA students - whose grandparents may have been in the crowd on the video above - I won't try to capture their comments, but needless to say, they were grateful, observant, engaged and articulate. Congratulations to Pete and his RYLA team for selecting great representatives to attend.