15/07/2008

The season of summer black truffles continues……… ..
Saturday evening July 12, 2008 and the desire to go to mushrooms is strong. I have heard it said that the timing is good, some porcino has born. I prepare all the tools. Alarm at 3.30 a.m..
3.30 hours a.m. of Sunday, July 13, 2008: the alarm sounds. I look the watch. I put out it. I think. I think again. I spin. I sleep again. This is feel like to go mushrooms!
I wake up at 00,30 p.m.. I think I am stupid.
To remedy I want to go with Filù to see if our friends truffles want to be found. 3,00 hours p.m., I go. Same place.
The dog part nose on the ground. The earth seems cement. It is very dry. But when there is the truffle, the claws of Filù work well. The truffle is present. Walk, walk again, make one, two .... many holes, at the end of lap we found the usual 1 kg. of truffles.
There is a new: my wonderful dog has found a new “pastura” (in Italian language is the place of the forest where truffle born). While we are descending from the hill, near a house, Filù escape into the forest and despite my warnings he don’t return to me. I know her and I assumed there is a reason. In fact, within easy I reach her and I find two oaks with the land around full of holes, a sign that some truffler frequents the area. It is also stupid because it does not close the holes.
Well, I think, Filù struck again. She began to search and found two beautiful truffles with weight about 60 grams.
Sometimes the haste and rudeness (the holes must always be closed!) made bad jokes: the truffler friend will have one more competitor!