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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 2, 2018 22:18:15 GMT -6
Tomorrow night is forecast to be in the mid-twenties. The wood stove will be going that night for sure!
I talked to Don Ogle at Church Sunday, he said he found a few Morel Mushrooms in Tahlequah last Friday, where temperatures are slightly warmer in town. He found scattered Morels in Moodys yesterday, but not enough to brag about. I heard a few folks out a Welling got lucky and found a few Morels yesterday too.
These are exciting times, everything depends on the weather at this point. I'm looking forward to a few Morels sauteed in butter, to go with a little stewed deer meat and some wild onions of which I have aplenty!
Happy Hunting Everyone!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 8, 2018 21:55:21 GMT -6
Saturday morning's snowstorm set us back a little. We found no Morels this weekend.
We still spent the day in the woods though; instead of hunting Morel Mushrooms, we were hunting the wood splitter to make some of our huge backlogs a more manageable size. The best news was that we found no ticks! I suppose that's the one good thing about having a snowstorm fall during the month of April.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 21, 2018 9:47:05 GMT -6
My Brother has been finding morels this week, near Hulbert, along the limestone bluffs above the Creek. I still haven't found any here though. I might have to venture on toward the Illinois River to find any this year.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 25, 2018 19:54:20 GMT -6
More Morels were reported around welling yesterday. But all I found were ticks and lots of them. I'm glad someone had luck finding some mushrooms though.
This coming weekend is looking better and better, weather-wise. It's supposed to warm up after this rain. This morning, it was raining steadily and was only 46 degrees. It warmed up to about 50 later in the day but never stopped misting rain. We've had a fire in the woodstove all day long and it feels really good to be sitting by it right now.
With the morels so few and far between this season, I sure am glad for eggs and wild onions. The wild onion patch has been thriving in this cool, wet, weather. They are some of the best wild onions I've ever seen.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 2, 2019 22:42:33 GMT -6
It's that time of year again!!!
Morel Mushroom Hunting Season is about to kick off with a bang! We've got all the best indicators in place, warm weather, sunny days, and plenty of moisture in the ground.
Not to mention, lots of excited people; ready to go on their first foray of the year, after a long, cold winter, we've just waiting for the storms to pass...
IT'S SPRING AT LAST !!!
The first official, local, Oklahoma Morel sighting of 2019 was in Colcord, on March 27th, 2019.
Keep your eyes peeled! and your skillet at the ready.
IT'S TIME TO GO IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE MOREL!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 5, 2019 13:53:18 GMT -6
Today is April 5th, 2019
What a beautiful day!
It's already 73 degrees outside, there is rain in the forecast for this weekend and the weatherman is calling for temperatures to reach 80 within the next few days.
All that adds up to some perfect morel mushroom hunting weather. Not to mention all the other little treasures out there just waiting to be discovered, like wild onions, curly dock, dandelions, henbit, and dead nettle. Throw in a few scrambled eggs, some bacon, a panful of homemade biscuits, a cup of sassafras tea, and maybe a handful of wood violet blossoms and you'll have a once in a Springtime, delicious meal laid out.
Here is a homemade biscuit recipe that goes really well with all those Springtime goodies:
2 cups of self-rising flour
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of cold butter (1 stick) diced into 1/4" inch size cubes.
Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Mix those 3 ingredients in a large bowl.
Spray a little cooking oil in the bottom of a 10" inch, round cake pan.
Arrange your biscuits the way you like them.
Set the timer for 12 minutes and get ready for some good eating!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 8, 2020 12:09:17 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 22, 2020 17:43:28 GMT -6
According to the 'Great Morel' the first sighting of morel mushrooms in the Tahlequah area, this season took place March 18, 2020.
www.thegreatmorel.com/morel-sightings/
But I've yet to see any morels around here. I think the heavy rains lowered our soil temperatures below the ideal temperature of 54 degrees. Our soil is currently hovering around 51.6 degrees and very, very, wet. It didn't help any that our high today was only 49-degrees.
According to the Tahlequah Airport weather station, March 25th- 26th, are forecast to be around 80-81 degrees. Though this may help to boost our cooler soil temperatures, it may very well be too wet to find any morels anytime soon? It has been raining here almost non-stop for the past 8-days. Year to date, we've already had 15" inches of rain fall in 2020.
If you are interested in hunting morels, these guys from Ohio have a lot of good
pointers.
Morel mushroom hunting should be a good, safe, pastime while under this coronavirus quarantine. If you only look for mushrooms and don't find any people you might be alright. 
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Post by macmex on Mar 23, 2020 8:02:25 GMT -6
I need to get out and look. A couple of years ago we had them coming up in our lawn!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 26, 2020 19:46:21 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 10, 2021 19:23:20 GMT -6
My brother and his clan went Morel Mushroom hunting this weekend and came up lucky twice. They found 24 at one location and 42 in another. We had an egg, wild onion, and mushroom dinner when they all came back home.
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