Progress report: November 3

Somehow I'm always surprised when I have an awesome day outside. Today was no exception.

Being sick, I didn't get a whole lot done. But I did make some progress.

I misspoke this morning and we started the day with only five bags of leaves, not six. I gathered twelve more today, with many breaks in between.

Storage is becoming an issue. This is going to be fun.

During my frequent breaks, I spent a lot of time just walking around the yard looking at things, listening to podcasts, and taking pictures.

Thanks to @rawutah, I started the podcasts today with Joe Rogan's interview with Paul Stamets, the fungus guy. Totally turned on by all that soil business. I also listened to a few of @sustainablelivin's older episodes about soil, permaculture, and agorism. All stuff that turns me on.

Here's a picture of yesterday's avocado mushroom. It shot up and fell over overnight.

I watched it throughout the day as things happened. There were flies and gnats on it often, and it's green avocado-looking top turned white and revealed some weird substructure.

There were plenty other mushrooms too. Check out these guys on a dead stump in the back easement.

And these little ones on a rotting piece of wood.

It seems like everywhere I looked, there were mushrooms! Like in the kids'digging corner.

Or in the place where I may or may not build another bed by the clothesline.

And every time I turned over some leaves, I found mycelium.

Or giant earthworms.

It's cool learning all this and being able to see it all applied. The life of and in soil is just incredible to me. I may even pick up a microscope one of these days so I can get a better look at it.

I know one thing for sure. I like for my feet to be dirty like this at the end of the day. And what a day it has been.

Hope y'all had as good a Saturday as I did. It's late, and I'm going to bed now.

Tomorrow.

Nate

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