[Augie]

No damage here. Lots of rain and wind, little bit of hail, but not very big or very much of it.

Hauled a nice sack of morels out of the river bottoms at Eagle Bluffs yesterday. If I can get across the creek this evening I bet there are more to be found at my place.

[greeneyes]

We got about a half inch of rain here. Glad to hear that you didn’t get any of the really nasty stuff.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When I was in high school in S. Iowa, before the Rathbun Dam had been built on the Chariton River, the river bottom around Rathbun, Iowa was alive with morel mushrooms this time of year. No one kept records that I know of, but there must have been several tons of these goodies harvested every spring.

In the fall, some of the best shellbark hickory nuts literally rained down on the 11 thousand acres of soggy bottom land and folks who brought bushel baskets were rewarded with nature's best wild nutmeats.

I put up hay for $1/hour and never worked as hard in my young life on this land. Several relatives raised beef and corn here, now under 80 feet of water.

In about 1968, President Nixon flew in to dedicate the dam. The hickories had all been cut and burned, a couple of small cemeteries had been dug up and moved and the Chariton was locked behind a rolled earth dam under the direction of the Corps of Engineers...

[ExpatGator]

Gotta love Spring!

[Augie]

I picked a decent sack of morels after work yesterday, and did a little better after work today.

I also ran across a patch of decent sized elephant ears. These things are delicious, but they're not really safe to eat so I just took a picture.