I got stung by a yellow jacket last year and ended not breathing well and at the emergency room… this year was much saner. The only nest I knew about was destroyed by an animal that dug it up and ate it. There was a woodpecker that I think hit the glass and died, but something killed a goose that was wandering around for a few days and left it in the front bushes… Maybe a stray cat but I’m not sure.
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Couple hour getaway for Labor Day out to the Westport pier for some crabbing with my oldest, I think that was a good way for him to spend the last day of summer vacation?
3 hours of shelling and picking later and a couple pounds of premium salt water goodness!
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Marcus, lm suggesting Chris to change this site policy. Such posts shuld be forbidden! We chew od goat meat, potatoes and cabbage while you feast on king worthy delicasys!
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While Marcus wipes the corners of his mouth from all the delicious seafood, l too am harvesting natures goodies.
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The plums have yielded well this year, I am drying them in a stone oven this week, but there are far too many of them for our needs, …
wherever I look, work is watching me, …
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Marcus, he looks more like you than you do. 
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Well, afterwards you get rewarded with some rakia? Or you can drink /exchange some beer with Kristijan. Is that hop?
Looking good!
This year we had the trees full with plums too, before we left on holidays. My father stole everything 
. Good thing nothing was wasted then. Normally we dont have them here, and according to my father we mist a very good year. 
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I grew up on the same and still a hearty delicious meal! And if the king won’t allow his people to have some fresh shellfish, oof time for a new king me thinks…
The wild bounty is meant to be enjoyed, even if some don’t like to eat it. While cooking the crab on the back veranda a nice forkhorn blacktail buck came out and was munching on the corn piles I could have made it a surf and turf. I was content with the fresh seafood and the fresh back blue berry black berry raspberry cobbler. Fall harvest is in full swing for the wild edibles here
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Joke to the side, l dont complain. We do eat betrer thain 99% of the population. Still, crab meat wakes up memories from my childhood, when we used to visit the Atlantic. I wuld devour a 2 or 3 pound atlantic crab a day as a teenager… lots of work but lots of meat.
Nowdays, we stick to home more. And nature provedes everywhere. This, l found growing on a stump just 60 or so feet from our house.
After much decodeing what it is, and with 99% certainty, we have harvested the young mushrooms. The only bad side, but also the reasureing factor, is that they turn black when touched or cooked. Hey, thats meat grown on rotting stumps, for free, with no need to raise, butcher and presrve an animal. A win for me!
Edit; thd king doesent mins harvesting, the geography put us away from the sea or any decent body of water for that matter…
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Yes, crab meat is top. How far from the coast are you Marcus?
And I like the vegan meat too! That is something that is totally lost in our country , people die without a supermarket. If you go to the east they all know where to look. Kamil will too? Superfood
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I can be at the salt water in 30 minutes but this my preferred crabbing location is 92 miles from home. Trying to eat better as a family and give my boys memory’s to look back on. Can’t wait to be making the drive in the dodge a lot more often. There is a jetty that people fish for rock bass sea perch and ling cod just down the beach I really want to try my hand at. Or borrow my dad’s big boat and get out after salmon I have not done that in many years
Kristijan that looks close to what we call hen of the woods for color, but is constructed more like chicken of the woods. Both I believe are a type of sulphur shelf and are a delicious replacement in a meal for chicken breast
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I thod so too. But no, completely different. Dhickhen of the woods grows here too.
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Hello to everyone…I haven’t been on the site in a while…Summers are really busy around here since we bought the ice company. Also, I was made part of the leadership of our church group, so that has been taking a lot of time also.
But I keep up with things from Jakob.
Maybe now that Labor Day (our last ice holiday) is past, I will be able to post more.
Billy
P.S. Old chewy goat meat is great K, but it helps if you’re in the back country of Congo starving first… 
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Citrus juices helps break down tough meat fibers, can make a tough roast pretty tender!
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I think the closest I’ve had is old horse. Not too bad, it’s almost like a cross between venison and beef in flavor.
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I should have sent YOU my nice farm fresh, young and tender woodchuck. It is probably a delicacy in the Congo. 
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https://www.kptv.com/2022/09/07/wildfire-prevention-oregon-power-companies-prepare-to-cut-electricity/
Scroll down.
This has been updated to 9-6-2022.
This is our most dangerous fire time of the year.
60-90 days of no rain. Everything all dried out ready to ignite. Seasonal inlands to the coast winds driven makes for big racing wildfires.
This article quotes rural roads business owners moaning about the expense to install and fuel electric generators to keep their food freezers and refrigeration going.
Rural living out in these forests it is the need for deep well and ponds water pumping. You can cut back defensive space, sure. You can sides paint with the fire-resistant paints, sure. Smart folks always originally metals roofs build or re-roof convert.
But the majority of the rural places surviving homesteads are those who house and surounds watered, watered, watered. “Makeing mud.”
Forced to evacuate in a Grid-cut area you want drive away from a generator running, pumps a’pumping and sprinklers watering until it runs out of fuel.
So keep your units dual fuel capable. You will not be there to babysit a wood gasifier to fuel that hard working generator.
S.U.
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