Spring starts this weekend. Officially, spring is a season of it’s own. But with our weather, is it really?
Spring can be beautiful one day and cold and miserable the next. There are many days it can’t seem to make up its mind whether it’s winter or summer or all things at once. If you think of the word by its non seasonal meaning, a spring is a sudden movement or maybe a helically coiled piece of metal. So when you think of it, the name does sort of fit. We’re either lurching from one season to another and back, or we’re spinning in circles.
But there is one thing that we know comes along with that changing weather. Mud. Spring is mud season.
I noticed mud season starting to break out with that little bit of warm weather we had last week. What had been nice dry ground was exposed to a bit of sunshine and started to turn to mud. Seems there is frozen water just below the surface, just waiting to bubble up.
So even though mud season gets its fair share of rain and snow and slush, plain old sunshine can also bring forth the mud.
About the only way to avoid mud season is to pave every surface you are likely to come in contact with. Which is probably not a reasonable thing to do. So we just have to put up with it for the short time it is around.
Some might not have issues with mud season. Although those with pets and small children are likely very aware. Pets and small children seem particularly attracted to mud. In some cases, they seem to think it should be spread everywhere.
While I no longer have small children, I do have a dog. A dog with big feet. Feet that have no issues with mud and like to get it everywhere.
So every year at this time, the back seat of my car as well as a few chosen spots in the house tend to change colour. Those areas tend to take on a more earthy tone. I’ll clean them. Once mud season is over.
