Hi, I'm Stephen. I build&fix a bunch of stuff, I farm&gather gourmet mushrooms and obscure produce, I listen to&play an eclectic mix of music, I look at the stars&planets a LOT, and I like doing really nerdy things like my wife and learning new things. Once I learn something I can teach it to almost anyone willing to listen or do.
I wrote y'all a haiku:
Not a Bot. Not a Cop
Not at all available.
My wife's super-hot
#Kaptastic #TeamFAM
#ForAllMankind #Kaplan
Welcome to Steemit!
Thank you. Lots to learn.
Hello, welcome !
Thank you. Glad to be here
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Thank you, It's very cool. I love trying new things and I really like the format (as I stumble through what's what).
Nice post! I followed you, looking forward to see more awesome post in the future. Don't forget to follow me back. I also upvoted this.
(Upvoting this comment will help street children of Manila, Philippines this Christmas season)
Very cool! Go you. Trying to figure out the whole upvoting thing now. And thank you!
Welcome to Steemit! My grandpa used to hunt for mushrooms! what do you go for? Look forward to more posts!
Thank you, it's really cool to be here. So much to learn.
It's a funny story actually but I'll save that for another post. I very much just wandered in it. We gather a variety of mushrooms and wild foods and it changes month to month. The most prolific mushrooms here are Oyster mushrooms - maybe 8-10 months out of the year. The rest seem to be of very short seasons: Morels in April, 5 kinds of Chanterelles in June & July, Chicken of the Woods in July and August, Hen of the Woods in September and October, Puffballs like the end of Spring and the start of Fall, as do the Lion's Mane and Bear's Head. We have successfully cultivated 2 kinds of shiitake and 5 kinds of oysters, Lion's Mane has been a challenge with very limited success, and Chicken and Hens were both total fails. We'll be adding more every year (will likely do some posts in a few weeks when we innoculate some white oak logs with Bear's Head spore-dowels. We also pick wild pawpaws, persimmons, black walnuts, blackberries, cat tails, fiddlehead ferns, and anything else that crosses the radar as food. The goal is to sustainably "gather" and leave enough for nature to keep doing it's thing at my father's land that was otherwise just growing a little hay and a lot of poison ivy and ticks (not "forage" - ie: rape the forest of everything). The hobby quickly turned in to a cottage business when some of my clients in the restaurant industry showed an overwhelming interest.
Welcome to Steemit. It is a great platform to share anything and everything.
Best of Luck!
Spencer Coffman
SpencerCoffman.com
Thank you, Spencer. I'm seeing that variety. Very cool site. Excited to be here and learn and share what I know.
welcome to steemit where all the interesting writing will be get the rewads
Thank you. Such an interesting idea. Very grateful for the tip from some friends I watch in the digital currency realm - very happy to see the community is so diverse (as I have nothing of value to add on "crypto" but TONS of other passions that could be of interest to people).
Hahaha, welcome. This seems very funny to me. Good luck Stephen
PS: you are sexy too
[blush emoji] Thank you. Stay tuned, I'm a real punny guy.
Welcome @kaptastic. I read your name as crap-tastic and it made me giggle, that and I was intrigued to read your haiku so in I clicked. Your sense of humour reminded me of my husband's @shai-hulud so that's wirth an upvote from me. Not that it counts for a whole heap yet as I'm new like you but it will with consistency. I have faith. Good luck with your steemit adventures. I'll follow you to keep in the loop.
Hahaha! Yes, that happens. Were I grew up "Kaplan" was as about as odd a name as anyone had ever seen (Very small mountain town with zero non-whites). I always loathed people getting my first name wrong but my last didn't bother me as much because of being conditioned at a very young age that it was odd - my first is hyper-common. I often just went by Kaplan, Kap, Kappie, Captain, Kapster, and even Crapalot (oddly enough from my best friend since the 4th grade). The "tastic" came in my working life where there were some noticeable differences in my outputs compared to my peers. One scheduler dubbed my notes "Kap-tastic" because of the detail and understandability. I found it funny and have adapted it to many things in my life. Here I'm hoping for it to be a constant reminder to myself as a requirement for excellence.
Best of luck getting oriented. I'm still reading a lot of the details provided by our hosts to make sure I understand the system a little better (took me hours to work out my profile pic and cover - and the cover still needs revision before I carry on)
Love and light!
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