Never Mess with a Fairy Ring

There’s a fairy ring of mushrooms growing in my front yard. The only option to safely remove them is to pull them up wholesale.

It wasn’t long before I regretted doing so. Several things mysteriously went missing from the house: an entire jar of change, the television remote, my truck keys, my favorite coffee cup.

“What the hell!” I exclaimed.

They turned up a couple of days later – in my neighbor’s yard – across the street. We were less surprised by the sudden reappearance of my things than the fact that a fairy ring of mushrooms can grow in artificial turf.