Forwarding this for Konopapw-see below... > Can you forward this to the SLAGA newsgroup? My > ISP has denied me the ability to send emails to it > for some reason, as of yesterday. > > This is in reference to your puffball find: > -------------------------------------------------- > > > I hope you put the alien pod back before its mother came back to incubate. > > > > A few weeks ago I found a puffball in our yard while I was mowing the lawn. > > It wasn't anything near the size of yours. Elaine looked it up in our > mushroom > > book and since thunder_monk had said he had eaten puffballs before, we > > thought we'd try. Elaine sliced it up and put it in a pan with butter. It had > > > the taste and consistency of scrambled eggs and a marshmellow. I wouldn't > > eat it as a main course, but the one you found looks like it could feed a > > family of 6. > > > > The puffballs I remembered as a kid in Wisconsin were the size of a > > large marble, were always dry and emitted a puff of dust when stepped on. > > > > (If I were you, I'd send that photo to the puffball growers association > > of America) > **************************************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List & Archive Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching The SLAGA E-store http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=SLAGA *****************************************************************************************************