My Mushroom Log
Each of the past two winters has seen me planning to get a few mushroom logs started — oysters, chicken polypores, whatever. Enough for me to have a reliable source of choice edible mushrooms instead of relying on the weather and the local decaying trees to fill my stomach with sweet or meaty fungi. And each spring I decide that I need to maintain a certain level of simplicity and that I don’t want to take on too much at one time and find myself more overwhelmed than I am normally.
I know, how much time can mushroom logs take? Drill the holes, insert the spawn, water the logs, and wait. But then I remember that I’ve been meaning to plant some root vegetable seeds for the past two weeks now. Maybe next year, I think.
So imagine my pleasant surprise when I returned from the family reunion to find a fungus growing on my own leg, which at times seems to be shaped somewhat like a small log (there’s no gym in Cripple Creek). I tried using a vinegar compress on my leg — it stung a little bit — but now have moved up to the big gun, an over-the-counter fungicide that seems to be less effective than the vinegar treatment. This has me wondering, does anyone out there have a home remedy for ringworm? I’ll try almost anything.
Don't eat this one.