Spouse came home early again because of his sprained ankle. He keeps asking when I'll be done on the computer. This is but a small taste of retirement and I don't like it! I need my own space!!
WI hike today up Pajarito Mountain via Aspenola bike trail on east side and down Aspen for Trouble bike trail on west side. Actually, I gave up following Aspen for Trouble where it intersected Battle Stations and May Day. I have to study the map and follow it uphill one day.
It was a birthday hike which I skip but I did stop in the Lodge to ask advice on mushrooms. On the way down, I collected a boletus and some puffballs. The boletus turned out to be an aspen boletus. The hiker whose advice I asked said he got a gurgly stomach from eating one. Its sponge was orange. I cut it open and it's bluish inside which confirms that it's an aspen boletus. I dumped it in the backyard.
The puffballs were a good learning experience. The ones that feel hollow-y or collapsed inside are very moist when you cut them in half and are forming brown spores from the top down. Threw those in the backyard too. That left a mere 4 small puffballs that are edible. Hope I don't die. I don't see evidence of gills and they are snowy white - gulp...
Finishing up 4 small loads of laundry - oh, joy! Cleaned myself up because I have a doctor visit tomorrow - a follow-up on my recent partial bowel obstruction - oh, joy!