Empty Chairs

I have a tendency to be disturbed by completely immaterial things. Immaterial things being things that I know that are there but I only see out of the peripheral vision of my mind.

I don't like to swim in my pool at night because I once saw a white vested silhouette in that general area. I'm not saying that seeing that figure that is rational, but if YOU saw it would you go back out there at night? That would be irrational to invite myself to die of a heart attack when something like a grasshopper leaped out of nowhere and I thought I was being attacked by ectoplasmic insects.

I don't like to look out of my peep hole as has been mentioned before.

And I feel great uneasiness from an empty chair. An empty chair even in broad daylight can disconcert me on imaginative days. Is an empty chair not an invitation for just anything  to sit in it? If you don't believe me google image empty chairs.

Kaleidoscope Shrooms

Are not, in fact, a long lost Beatles song. I've been spending the summer trying to find ways to eat more plants by eating wild ones. (Which has boiled down to: wild plants are gross. With the notable exceptions of plants I'd been eating for years and dandelion petals).

I love mushrooms, and of course, they grow EVERYWHERE. So I thought, hey, I'll eat some of them! But upon further reading realized I couldn't distinguish between them well enough and could wind up with a delicious grilled fungus or secret rubbery death!!!

While still in the investigation stages, I found this fellow (Manderly the Mushroom) in the yard and it was quite lovely if stinky on the inside. This mushroom is actually edible before its spore stage (or so some very badly designed blogs tell me).