Second round of Mud

Have you ever lost your boots in the mud?  Maybe when you were a kid, it was fun - walking along, stomping through mud puddles when all of a sudden you kept walking, but your boots stood still?!  When you're an adult, carrying two buckets of corn out to the pig barn, it certainly is not fun!  My boots ended up stuck in about ankle deep mud, while me and my recently clean socks kept going.  Back up, stick the feet the boots again and rock back and forth until one boot breaks loose, then work on the other one.  Slow, steady process, but I finally made it out to the pig barn for their evening feeding.

Finally, the second round of mud is upon us.  The large snowfall that we received over a week ago has begun to melt.  I thought I had the horse barn beginning to dry out, but I had to drig another channel this week to allow the water to run in one door and out the other.  The horses are beginning to shed in earnest now, so when they come in at night they're caked with mud from rolling their itchy bodies.  Have you ever tried to curry a dried mud, shedding horse?  Certainly not a time to have a drippy nose.  When currying the horse, you create static electricity.  Guess where all that hair goes when it comes off the horse?  You!  Then go and wipe your nose!  Doesn't take long and you turn into a hairy itchy mess.

But, I suppose we have to get through this. Like many things in life.  Dirty.  Itchy.  Messy.  But with God's help, we can overcome any obstacle that comes across our path.  I just have to remember that spring is on the way, things will get better. . .