We had a great Easter. We spent the day catching butterflies, flying kites, and mushroom hunting. It drizzled some but nothing too bad.
We found an awesome naturally occurring clearing on our land, and there were four different mushrooms types just in that one area. One we were able to confirm as wood ears, and I added them to the veggie soup we had for dinner, and it was YUMMY. The other three we weren't able to figure out the type, and discarded them. Mushrooms can be so dangerous, and I'd never feed anyone anything I wasn't sure about. Wood ears are super mild. They taste like regular mushrooms, but just barely. They're full of nutrients and they absorb the flavor of whatever you're cooking, so they're an excellent filler.
That night and the next morning, it POURED. Like torrential downpour, standing under a waterfall, the trailer might wash away downpour. It filled up the creek though, and I was able to rescue worms from the garden to add to the compost bin.

Later that day, the kids found a crawfish wandering around by the chicken coop (shows how much rain we got). She had a ton of babies on her belly, so now we're raising them up for dinner. "Mud bugs" are Shane's favorite.

We found quite a lot of the wood ear mushrooms

look at the size of this!

crawfish babies