It rained a ton today, but that didn't stop us from heading to the Skokomish River area to go mushroom hunting. Unfortunately we didn't find many, but enough for dinner tonight. It was WET, but we were happy to see a few die-hards camping on the Forest Service land. We plan to head back in a couple weeks in hopes of finding more mushrooms at our favorite spot. It looks like we were just too early. Check out the photos in the camping with Trish & mushrooming album for what we did find.

It feels like fall & the produce is definitely at it's peek. We're up to our eyeballs in just about everything. Yesterday I made a ton of spaghetti sauce and baked bread. It took pretty much all day, but I know we'll enjoy the fruits of my labor for many weeks to come. (I froze 18 cups of sauce & 5 loafs of bread.) It is a lot of work, but I enjoy being able to put good food on the table, & luckily the kids enjoy it too. And at the end of the day, after Dave put the kids to bed, I was able to finally finish The World is Flat a verbose, but pretty amazing book. Tomorrow I need to tackle the sauce apples. The Asian pears will have to wait until next weekend. The Italian prunes and Bartlett pears will be close behind, and by then the tomatoes will require major attention again. Salsa anyone?