u/CerberusTheHunter

Found this in my backyard while walking around, it’s past its culinary prime, if it even is a morel… I have NEVER seen anything like this. It easily weighs a pound, maybe more. I’m blown away. What do y’all think?

Editing to answer some questions:

I live in Western Massachusetts. The wood chips were from cherry and Norwood trees that we took down and milled and chipped about a year ago, spread the chips around the yard to suffocate some weeds. The yard was long neglected before we moved in. I have been very busy and have not been down to that lower portion of the yard for a couple of weeks. I found 2 others, one the size of my fist and the other with just the stalk remaining. Also some wood ears.

So I am Dad in this situation. Mom and I are divorced and co parent with split custody in different households. Mom and I have very different views on parenting, which was one of the things that led to our separation. Thanks to this sub and the experiences of multiple close friends I am 100% opposed to the TTI and all similar grifts and scams.

Okay, with that out of the way.

We are currently working on ending a screen addiction by our youngest, a 10 year old boy we will call L. I’ve been successful at getting him to quit mostly cold turkey. Mom has not. She is responding to tantrums by threatening to send L away to a boot camp program or an institution.

Obviously this is not okay and I will not allow that to happen.

My question is two fold.

What are good resources to show his mother to convey that doing this would be evil and harmful to our son?

In California as we are, are there any specific protections I can put in place to prevent these actions?

Is this a freakin huge morel that I found in my wood chips???