‘Needless to say’ ( favorite saying of my Momma’s) you don’t walk around in flip-flops, or regular shoes of any sort right now, you still walk with your boots on.
But instead of the crunch, and creak, and squeak of the snow your feet with the boots on them make a sort of plunk, and splash, and sucking sound.
BUT I’m NOT complaining! No matter what, after snow you must have mud. Every day that you have mud with sun and little wind is a day closer to DIRT! or SOIL! or just plain Ground!
The mud is bad enough the dogs don’t like to walk with me, which is okay. I walked without them. I wanted to see if the winter annual weeds were perking up–gathering juices to spring forth in all their weedy wonder.
Yep, the nasty Cheat Grass is greening up nicely. Cheat grass is really a mess…it has tiny little barbs that catch in the throats and coats of animals, on socks and pant legs, in general is just a mess. I really should go out and spray it with weed killer in the fall, but I never seem to get around too it. Fall is so extremely busy for us.
I like this little plant…it has little purple flowers and is part of the mustard family. Since I like this plant I will never try to kill it, although, I don’t know what benefits it has except to make me smile. And I do, every time I see it.
While out and about a Murder of Crows flew around and around on the wind thermals, forming figure eights in the air, calling and calling for all to hear: Caw, Caw, Spring is near!
Back home I had three inch clumps of mud on my boots, the dogs just looked at me then rested their heads back down on their paws, as if saying: see that’s why WE didn’t want to go.
That’s okay, I told them! The walk did me good, it filled that slot that had grown thin in waiting, I now have Joy in my soul.
Your Happy Friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
i cleaned off a lot of mud-clumped paws here myself today. 🙂
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How heartening to see mud. Especially where you are!
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Is that the proper namw for a bunch of crows? AMurder of crows!, well I, ll be blowed!. Spring is definitely on its way, just around the corner, soon be here…snow all gone, cold thoughts put away.and sun, sun , sun….xxxx
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Beautiful photos. I have a pair of rubber boots for myself and hubby at every entrance to the house. Waiting for the storm of the winter at the moment and a call from hubby saying “YOU had better head home quick!”
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Thanks for taking us for such a nice walk. There are plants that I keep too just because they make me happy to see them even though they seem to serve no purpose. As long as they don’t take over…
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I’m glad you could get out and walk, even if it is muddy. To my mind, making you smile is more than enough reason to keep a plant around. Your sunset photo is gorgeous.
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We had mud last week, but it’s frozen again on the Upper Road…giant ruts from the delivery drivers – ugh. Going to have to re-grade once it warms up. Double Ugh…
Fun to see your warm-up pictures, while I’m waiting for the next storm to roll in tonight. It’ll be Boots Weather til June, the way we’re going 😀
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I am glad you are happy now ! Maybe spring is coming. But I sure know about mud but we are still melting. The deer have invaded my fenced yard so I ordered some Nitegards for the critters. Hope it works. Now mud is another issue. You need heavy duty boot scrappers or water by the door. Take care.
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WOW that’s a lot of mud! Gave me flashbacks to the horse farm in Ohio I worked at for a couple years. Eeeuuuch!
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Mud clumps! I’d never miss out on those! They’re fun – for me, not Mom!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Let all that moisture soak in! All our snow is gone too. 50* today. Water running up hill ! 🙂 A light breeze, Perfect. I got pictures today. Looks like the creek running along the road!
I have to disagree with you some on cheat grass. It is nasty and sticks everywhere. In the dogs ears is the worse. And socks! But its an excellent grass for the cows. They LOVE that stuff! 🙂
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I’m with ya – I’ll take mud over snow right now! We’re still mostly snowed in, but the path I shoveled for the animals in the barnyard is mucky, mucky, mucky. I spent the day building a hay feeder for the goats. I ache and I LOVE IT! Thanks so much for the photos, especially that sunset 🙂
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Oh the western skies!
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Spring must be on it’s way if there’s mud! We’re at the beginning of what the tell us is a North Easter…just started snowing an hour or so ago. If we get a foot on top of our 6-8″, and next week really hits the 40’s and 50’s like they’re predicting…we’ll have MUD too!
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You go from snow to mud overnight it seems…it takes us weeks. It looks warm there:)
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I’m so happy that you are out of the deep freeze..but can I confess? I HATE mud. I really do. So thank God for rubber boots! That’s all I have to say. I love it that a tiny flower makes you happy. That is the secret…lots of love from rainy Milan.
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The joy of the coming Spring is worth a little mud. I hope it keeps a’coming.
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