Sure we hate ’em on the internet, but we also don’t like unpleasant surprises popping up in our yard either. That means you giant crazy mushroom clump:
When we left for our daily walk yesterday evening I noticed what I thought was a pile of dead leaves knocked down by that morning’s rains. Nope, instead it was this mass o’ mushrooms that literally appeared out of nowhere in less than 24 hours. Not really the “buy my house” look we’re going for these days.
Now I consider myself to be a fun guy and I can appreciate the miracle that is nature (wow, that much mushroomage grew in just a day!) but this bloom of ‘shroom had to go. Good thing those suckers are easy to knock out (although there was a fair amount of slug-like slime involved). Here’s hoping they don’t pull a David Copperfield and reappear again anytime soon.
Pssst- Sherry here, ten points to those who can find the hidden mushroom pun that my cheesy hubby stealthily worked into this post.
You know that book John read a little while ago about lawn care? I’d be interested to know what it says about mushrooms. We get the little tan ones in the same (circular- weird) pattern every year. And for the past two years, we’ve had, um, phallic (sp?) looking ones pop up right next to our front steps. I wish they would go away!
“Now I consider myself to be a fun guy” Haha so good :)
John is indeed a fungi!
I’m having the same problem with the slow loading time. The last couple of days, I’ve been checking email and stuff on another tab while I wait for your site to load!
Hey Blair,
We’re on the case! Here’s hoping we get to the bottom of it soon.
xo,
s
You did say your posts were going to be a bit more
spore-adic from now on!
And Rebecca wins comment of the day. Love it!
xo,
s
fun guy = fungi! LOL
I love your blog! I discovered it last week when I was trying to figure out how high to hang curtains and I’ve been addicted to reading about all your projects. Your style has inspired me (just bought a house in July) and I even saw a few mood boards that made me say “that’s just the color combination I was looking for!!!” (yes, three exclamation points are necessary). I look forward to reading all about the projects you will do on your eventual new house.
I have those in my yard, too and was told that they appeared where the former owner had cut down a tree. Coincidence?
EEEEEEE! My mom and I are driving two and a half hours to go to Ikea for the first time this Friday. This post made me extra excited. We are going primarily for their cheap matted picture frames to make a gallery wall in my parents’ stairway, but I have a feeling we’re going to be picking up a few extra things. Thanks for the tour!
Ewwwwwww . . .
I kept having a recurring problem with mushrooms growing in a houseplant! I finally unpotted it and shook all the old dirt off and put it in a new pot with all new soil. It was just grossing me out too much.
fun guy! :) supercute.
You guys are so punny :) (get it? pun + funny = funny) Ugh. We get those things too. Have you ever gotten the stinkhorn type of fungus? That kept growing in our mulch one year and it stunk SO BAD! It’s not pretty to look at either. It’s reminiscent of a certain part of a dog’s anatomy. Look it up if you don’t know about it and you’ll see what I mean! I apologize in advance if I grossed any out. :)
I know this is unrelated, but are you guys not doing Reader Redesign anymore?
Hey K,
Ever since making this announcement on the blog we’ve been trying to get back to the spontaneous, personal, diary type vibe that our blog had in the good ol’ days (when we talked more about our house than other people’s amazing makeovers) but since we can’t resist a good before and after we now tell people to post their pictures on our Facebook page, so it’s always fun to drop in and see those transformations (and get info about them) over there (here’s the link).
xo,
s
I am NEVER a commenter, always a reader, but for the love of Burger, I thought I would “speak” up! We are currently enrolled in training classes for our dog and heard a story about fall mushrooms causing MAJOR harm to a pup in our class. The owner said how she never even saw mushrooms in her yard, but was told they can just pop up overnight. 4k, a week at the vets, didn’t know if the little guy would make it kind of damage. (He did though! :) Obviously there are TON of different kinds of mushrooms, but just thought I would pass along the info.
Hey Meghan,
Thanks so much for the heads up! How scary! Thankfully the crazy mushrooms seem to pop up in the front yard while Burger runs free in the back- but we’ll keep an eye out just in case!
xo,
s
Fun Guy! LOL!!! Awesome!
Did Sherry totally roll her eyes when she saw what you wrote? You’re a punny guy, you.
fun guy – ha ha ha
“Fun guy” = “fungi”!!! Now thanks to your last post I have to take a field trip to Ikea!
A mushroom walks into the bar and says to the bartender “Hay , could I get a beer please”
The bartender looks at him shacking his head and say “No, we don’t serve food here”
The mushroom says “Why not I’m a Fungi!”
You “fun-guys” crack me up!
ewwww, yeah, we’ve found all kinds of gross mushrooms in our yard lately. All the rain and cloudiness…ick.
Hi John and Sherry! Your site is also loading suuuuper slow for me today and yesterday. Nothing new on this end and I’m not at work or anything. Maybe it’s a Lindsay thing?? ;)
Hey Lindsay,
We’re actually wondering if it has to do with the embedded Nate Berkus videos from yesterday’s post (which is really the only two-day old thing on our blog). Here’s hoping in the next day or so when the videos move to our blog’s second page you guys won’t have any more of a delay. Thankfully it only appears to be effecting some people (ironically named Linsday, haha).
xo,
s
You could add “healthy soil food web” to your marketing brochure: mushrooms are a good sign! :o)
http://www.adn.com/2010/08/04/1396233/rain-a-factor-in-this-years-crop.html
I walked out of my house this morning and noticed a trail of white mushrooms in my yard too…I’ve pulled them out of the ground from the root out before and still they keep growing every other day…Sucks I know, I wonder how to get rid of these funguys (fungi) for good…. and not to mention with all the rain and humidity right now might make them want to stay longer.
Sprinkle some BAKING SODA on those puppies (and any other mushrooms) and they will be dead in a few hours. Its a miracle, it won’t kill the grass and eco-friendly!!!!
I wonder if those were edible mushrooms? Mushroom soup?
Hmm, probably not. And did we mention they were super slimy. Yech.
xo,
s
I totally got the pun. I was thinking “does he even know what he just said there?”
I’m going to go ahead and say it was a Super Mario pun, the “Shroom Bloom” gadget? :) Maybe? Maybe not?
It was “fun guy”… get it? Fungi?
xo,
s
There is a fungus among us!
So a mushroom walks into a bar.
The bartender says, “HEY, we don’t serve your kind in here!”
The mushroom shrugs and says, “Why not? I’m a fun-guy!”
Had to. It’s the only joke I know off the top of my head, and it just happens to fit this post.
Hey Sherry-
How did you guys ultimately get rid of the gross me out clumps of shrooms? I saw the Baking Soda tips from a commenter (awesome- so trying it!)- but curious about what you did? A lot of people say they just pull them up- only to rediscover them in the morn. Any tips? Thanks!
We just pulled them up. So far no reemergence. We’ll post again if those buggers come back!
xo,
s
When there is a fungus among us, I can always find the fun-gi……
Fun guy = fungi!
He’s A “Fun-Guy”
I can remember as a child mushrooms would grow in an almost perfect circle in the yard beside the barn. A fairy ring, I always heard it called. But they were always small, individual mushrooms. How big was that cluster you two dug up?
Probably 15″ wide! It was crazy big!
xo,
s
first the pumpkin and then the fungus- John has one green thumb!
on a related note, have you guys ever seen morelle mushrooms growing in your yard? just wondering. we started morelle hunting a few years ago (with my father in law as a tested shroom guide) and then one year we found a bunch in our yard (and since we never treat our lawn with any chemicals, etc, we felt pretty safe to eat them- yum!)
so, any morelles at casa Petersik?
Nope, sadly we’ve never found any. None that we know of at least. Just these weird orange guys!
xo,
s
Fun-gi! Love it.
We got those ALL the time in our yard, that size and BIGGER…spread some lime- that should do the trick.
You would have only pulled up the reproductive part. All the “root” of the fungus is still there. Keep an eye out!
You are a fun guy! Yeah, I got it. Haha! Ewww those mushrooms give me the creeps. We have some in one spot in our yard that pop up like that. *shudder*
I scanned for ages looking for that pun but it wasn’t until I read the comments why I didn’t get it –
The Aussie accent pronounced Fungi “Fun-gee”
Great little joke though. :)
Haha “fun guy”!
Hey
we have the PAX closets … because when we lived in Germany we did not had walk in closets. One thing to say is you never ever move with IKEA furniture … Hope you guys get luckier than we did when we moved overseas to America … so many damage like scratches etc ….
Good luck and keep up the great work :-0
Susann
FYI
the baby on the HP printer commercial looks just like Clara! awesome!
Unrelated note–did you guys see that Clara is starring on the front page of shelterpop.com?! Supercool! I recognized her right away!
Wahoo! We had no idea when that would be going up. That’s exciting! Thanks for the tip.
xo,
s
Easy -fun guy.
Ha ha, I was sure there was going to be a reference to fungi in there somewhere!
Glad to hear that those went straight into the trash. My friend works in the ER room and has horror stories of people eating unknown mushrooms/fungi.
Fun guy = Fungi hahaha!
fun guy = fun-gi…love it! Puns are great.
Susann- While I’ve never moved overseas, we did move from CA to NC with Ikea furniture, most of which we purchased second-hand rather than new. We shipped it in a crate which was loaded unto a series of semi-trucks for the journey out. Anyhow, the furniture packed flat, which was nice, and arrived unbroken and unscratched. I will not say that it is the highest quality furniture in the world, and there are certainly many good reasons to not buy Ikea, but I do find that it holds up surprisingly well.