Banjo and Mushrooms

As I mentioned in my first post our wonderful dog, Haggis, recently passed away. Although we miss him greatly and he can never be replaced we still had a hole in our hearts and home. This ugly old house just doesn't feel right without a dog so a few weeks ago we adopted Banjo.

  He is a Belgian Shepard / Australian Shepard mix. We found him on petfinder.com and although he has a few social issues I think he will end up being a great dog.  But he is a little more unpredictable than Haggis was so it has renewed our determination to create a solid fence around our house.  There will be another post on our foray into fence building later on.

  Now onto the mushrooms. For the holidays Matt's sister gave us a grow-your-own mushroom kit. Matt loves mushrooms so we were excited to try it.  The first attempt was a failure. We watered it like the instructions said but then we had to go away for a few days and they dried up. Luckily we still had the other side.  The second tried produced the mushrooms in the picture below.

  A couple days after this photo we had a lovely mushroom sauce over pasta for dinner.  After doing some research Matt found out that this kit is filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spoors.  He is playing around with the idea of making a mini mushroom farm on the dark side of our house.  I am not opposed to this idea. But we have lots of other projects doing on right now so that will just have to wait.