Anne Bailey Mushroom Men

[Project | Mazda MPV | Part 7]

Disclaimer: there were a lot of mushrooms involved in this one. Things got real fuzzy, real fast. And I think a lot of people died. But I can’t remember. It was several years ago since I wrote this.

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July/August 2015 cont.

After squeezing those little boogerheads for info on Smokey’s whereabouts we zoom, zoom’ed back over to Watoga before it was too late. Whatever was going down was going to be going down’est around Ann Bailey’s Lookout Tower. So after gearing up with all the gadgets and gizmos we’d need for the alpine-like hike to the top we set off.

I strapped on my laser-powered spy wrist watch, but giving the GPS-equipped binoculars to my son may have been a mistake. We were quickly lost…but there was plenty of sights and signs along the way.

Eventually we caught sight of otherworldly beings affecting the local flora and fauna.

With something to nibble on the boys finally had the scent. I set them loose and almost instantly they started finding the aliens all over the mountain side.

The biggest we stumbled onto would have been great fried up and served with ketchup…alas I forgot the Q-issued deep fryer sunglasses back at the van. Chicken of the Woods, we found out it was called (notice the size compared to my shoe in the picture).

With all the evidence we needed to conclude that humankind was threatened by an imminent alien invasion we scrambled to the top of the mountain as fast as we could in the hopes that we could find a signal for our satellite phone. We could also call in a napalm strike on the mountain side before we were overrun with spores.

Unfortunately we found no signal. Must have been scrambled by the Martian shrooms. Bastards! Looks like we’d have no choice but to fight our way back down the mountain. But I wasn’t worried for us. I felt bad for the space invaders. Napalm would have been a more compassionate way for them to go.