The wrinkly green fruit you found is an osage orange. The wood is very strong and fit resistant, settlers planted them everywhere and loved them for fence posts.
I was stationed at Whiteman AFB for a few years around 2010 seeing Sedalia was a huge blast from the past. Also, if you zoom in on Google maps to the runway at the airbase you can see a B-2 that ran off the runway.
Matt is probably the only person I know who can joke about polish sausage, etc, and I crack up instead of being grossed out! Cardinals! I saw them all the time, growing up in Ohio and PA. Now I’m a CA girl and I miss them.
We always called them Hedge Apples but they are known by lots of different names (monkey ball and monkey brain are some fun ones). It's actual name is Osage orange. They taste absolutely disgusting, as I found out when I was little and my brother told me they were "apples"
Another good video. Tater's comments indicate that you two should have walkie talkies to easily communicate no matter what the cell phone conditions are. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
The earlier poster is entirely correct, the yellow, brain looking thing at 10:32 is the fruit of the Osage Orange tree - which you should be warned has vicious thorns - planted in a row, they make a hedge no one wants to go through. Also, when the fruit is thrown by the bully next door, can really hurt! Those bugs at 13:52 are Japanese beetles - more importantly at 13:58, the flower is the wild bee balm (mondarda).
Jen, maybe your spirit animal is a turtle. I hope the new trail is as nice as the Katy Trail, it's as nice a trail as I've seen in any video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Osage is one of my favorite trees. The wood is some of the hardest in North America, plus it has spikes! Some people use the giant fruits in their houses as spider deterrents, not sure how effective that is. People used to plant them in fence rows to keep livestock within a perimeter.
A Prothonotary Warbler would usually be hiding in the understory of a swampy area, and the song is Bizz-Bizz-Bizz-Bizz-Bizz. Goldfinches tend to travel in groups, and the song is Per-chick-o-ree as they fly.
they might distress the bench boards to make them less desirable to thieves. the green ball is a hedge ball also called hedge apples naturally from a hedge tree also called osage orange the prime choice of wood for indians to make bows from and the prime choice of farmers to make looooong lasting fence posts
This is why I hear the influencer type people actively script in mistakes or ask easy to answer questions. People love being helpful or correcting mistakes :)
OK. Kept it together with the not unusual sight of Matt's chest in the morning. No problemo. But lost it with the evocative (and disturbing) analogy of "a polish sausage snugged up to two ham hocks." Can't. Get. Awful. Image. Out. Of. Mind. . . Please, Hike On! (and enjoy the cabin). Tortoise
The wrinkly green fruit you found is an osage orange. The wood is very strong and fit resistant, settlers planted them everywhere and loved them for fence posts.
Probably a Goldfinch without seeing it.
Thanks, I think it’s from an osage Orange tree. ✌🏻👊🏼
That fruit you found on the trail looked like an osage orange.
I was stationed at Whiteman AFB for a few years around 2010 seeing Sedalia was a huge blast from the past. Also, if you zoom in on Google maps to the runway at the airbase you can see a B-2 that ran off the runway.
Man, what kind of timing was that? Thanks for mentioning it.
Matt is probably the only person I know who can joke about polish sausage, etc, and I crack up instead of being grossed out! Cardinals! I saw them all the time, growing up in Ohio and PA. Now I’m a CA girl and I miss them.
We always called them Hedge Apples but they are known by lots of different names (monkey ball and monkey brain are some fun ones). It's actual name is Osage orange. They taste absolutely disgusting, as I found out when I was little and my brother told me they were "apples"
The green ball was and Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) and the yellow bird was probably a Gold Finch.
It's good you were on the western side for Beryl, StL had rain all night and day, pretty hard at times, leading to local flooding.
Nice butterfly footage Taters!
And yeah it is Osage Orange.
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤
10:33 that appears to be an osage orange. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
Cardinals ALL over the east coast!!
Yes, sometimes these hurricanes do come up north via the Mississippi River!
Hey Y'all, I missed this day somehow. Good thing you can carry on with out me.
Another good video. Tater's comments indicate that you two should have walkie talkies to easily communicate no matter what the cell phone conditions are. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
The Osage Oranges are very cool until the wind blows and you’re driving under one. They can do some damage. Been there, done that.
Jen, Your laugh is awesome. Ed McMahon has nothing on you.
In 1900, Sedalia was a HUGE Railroad hub. Actually quite large in rail trucks, or so as I've read. At one time, bigger than KC.
The earlier poster is entirely correct, the yellow, brain looking thing at 10:32 is the fruit of the Osage Orange tree - which you should be warned has vicious thorns - planted in a row, they make a hedge no one wants to go through. Also, when the fruit is thrown by the bully next door, can really hurt! Those bugs at 13:52 are Japanese beetles - more importantly at 13:58, the flower is the wild bee balm (mondarda).
Monarda
Oops, misspelled, you are correct it is monarda
The green thing is an Osage orange.
I.e., "hedge apple".
Jen, maybe your spirit animal is a turtle. I hope the new trail is as nice as the Katy Trail, it's as nice a trail as I've seen in any video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
The "cool" green mass is usualy called a "Hedge-Apple" here in Ohio. They are not edible. BTW Awesome cabin
Glad to see you scored some good coffee.
Osage is one of my favorite trees. The wood is some of the hardest in North America, plus it has spikes! Some people use the giant fruits in their houses as spider deterrents, not sure how effective that is. People used to plant them in fence rows to keep livestock within a perimeter.
A Prothonotary Warbler would usually be hiding in the understory of a swampy area, and the song is Bizz-Bizz-Bizz-Bizz-Bizz. Goldfinches tend to travel in groups, and the song is Per-chick-o-ree as they fly.
Dude, that leaf was totally hangin' brain..
they might distress the bench boards to make them less desirable to thieves. the green ball is a hedge ball also called hedge apples naturally from a hedge tree also called osage orange the prime choice of wood for indians to make bows from and the prime choice of farmers to make looooong lasting fence posts
"Flint Hills" first mention. William Least Heat-Moon in his discussion of non-flat Kansas mentions the Flint Hills.
Those marks on bench at 16:05 are squirrels sharpening their teeth...believe it or not.
@@MrToddingersoll01 possible it was a beaver. It appears the tooth marks are wide enough.
Mush Apple
Thanks! Yeah Matt and Jen! #teamritter
Thank you!
You know what Bergamot Tea is? The purple bee balm you’re seeing is wild bergamot and that’s where the tea comes from.
Coral mushroom edible when fresh!!
Hey Y'all. That's a lot of steps in 2 days. Don't eat the Osage oranges or hedge apples either.
Ya those shiney little green bugs are Japanese beetles- destructive, nasty invaders. Other nice pollinators tho.
Day 96 watch. Snuggling Polish sausage. Yep. That image is stuck in my mind now…argh.
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I have heard that fruit on the ground called breadfruit. My dad's mother used to make it. Not sure how you prepare it.
Absolutely NOT breadfruit. Breadfruit is a very large tropical-only tree. Nobody eats osage oranges.
i am thinking persimmon, that is not ripe yet
Maybe wear different pants or like bike shorts to help with chaffing maybe use baby cream
I don't know the punchline but I gotta ask how many commenters it takes to tell masotaters it's an osage orange fruit.
This is why I hear the influencer type people actively script in mistakes or ask easy to answer questions. People love being helpful or correcting mistakes :)
Or diagnosing a wide variety of medical ailments if you are experiencing the slightest bit of fatigue
That brain looking thing is a hedge Apple. NOT edible!
Aka Osage orange. Thewood had the highest BTU's of all woods next to coal.
Since you like to paddle, have you ever thought of participating in the MR 340? It's too late this year, but 2025??
Honestly we’re not really much into races. We’d be more likely to do the Missouri proper
Osage apple.
OK. Kept it together with the not unusual sight of Matt's chest in the morning. No problemo. But lost it with the evocative (and disturbing) analogy of "a polish sausage snugged up to two ham hocks." Can't. Get. Awful. Image. Out. Of. Mind. . . Please, Hike On! (and enjoy the cabin). Tortoise