Like Cindy said, it's starting to get chilly here, fired up the woodstove for the first time this fall. Was even chillier today up on the mountain, no deer but then again too many people around to find a good unit to check out. Did find a motherlode of chanterelles, a side of mashed taters and mushroom gravy sounds good for dinner tomorrow.
Had an interesting encounter last night. Coming down the mountain, a real steep road with a STEEP dropoff, only a few trees to keep you from lawn-darting you and your car to certain annihilation. Some guy was driving up to pick some mushrooms, and something under the hood caught fire and he was pouring beer on it to put it out (it started right under the brake master cylinder so first thought was a leaky cylinder was dripping on the exhaust). Driving up the mountain in a POS hatchback, just a couple hours before sunset, with a giant trash can, hoping to pick mushrooms (not gonna fill that trash can in justa couple hours), armed with a case of beer apparently. He got the fire out, but not before it warped the cap on the reservior so he couldnt get it of to put more fluid in. His plan? Ride down the hill in 1st and tap the e-brake to slow down. Great plan. Didn't see a crappy toyota hanging off any trees over the edge, so I guess he made it.