Two days after we came back from our week in NYC, I pulled aside the back of the curtain hanging at our balcony door and discovered a giant pile of orange dust. Everywhere.
A MUSHROOM was growing on the inside track of my balcony door.
And I looked outside and there was its twin, growing happily between two of the boards on the deck.
Inside mushroom, outside mushroom.
I hazmatted up and sprayed everything inside and out with bleach, which turned the orange spores pitch black. Gross. I took down the curtains, too, and washed them with vinegar.
Post bleach inside.
Post bleach outside.
The thing is, the day before we left, we finally had eavestroughing installed on our roof, which meant that now we didn’t have water pouring at a million pounds per second onto the planking of our (now rotting) deck. So because it was now protected, I figure it gave the fungus a chance to show itself. I’m less clear on how it got INSIDE the house, though I suspect the seal on the door isn’t that great, seeing as I’m forever cleaning up water spots on the interior of the one downstairs.
Just in case this ends up being alien spawn or the portent of the next apocalypse-bringing plague, let the record show that I’m keeping the mushrooms in a Ziploc bag in my garage in case the CDC or NASA needs them later.
haha, I like the description for the last picture. So funny =))
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Well, you never know!
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This is gonna sound gross, but an ex-boyfriend had a mushroom growing up out of a small hole next to his toilet, I flipped out and refused to go back, LOL And, BTW, his bathroom was clean, JS! Great read, hope you got control of those fungi and you will not need to report to Nasa, Have a great day =)
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Hahah, ew gross!
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Ewwww, glad you moved the curtain when you did! And thank goodness fro bleach, right?
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Bleach definitely has a purpose in life!
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Yes, it sure does. You did a great job cleaning that up!
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Good call on keeping them for CDC or NASA research later! You may have just saved humanity! 😉
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😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 (screaming emoji face)
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I’ve seen this happen when moisture seeps in, too. It’s amazing how fast they can grow! Maybe your house is just infested with faeries or something, though 🙂
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Faeries sounds preferable!
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ew, mushrooms. they’re not my favorite. (well, except the edible kind. those kinda are my favorite, actually!)
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Wow, that’s pretty strange-looking!
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My thoughts exactly! (well, with a few choice four-letter words, too)
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When I was in college, my roommates and I had an apartment with its own mushroom growing in the bathroom grout. Kept coming back, too!
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That’s worse, that it was a recurrent mushroom. So far I’ve seen no signs of a second mushroom, but now you’ve got me spooked!
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Omg ew. Mold freaks me out enough as is so I can’t imagine finding something the next level up. Ew. I hope it doesn’t happen again.
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To top it off I had to throw out the saved bag of mushrooms today because it went MOULDY!
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Haha!!! Love how the post ends!!
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