10 Things to appreciate about mud season
Mud season, as everyone who lives in Maine knows, are the muddy days that last from March until May. I usually dread it, but I decided to do something different this year. I looked for ten things to appreciate about it.
1) Dodging potholes. As the earth warms, it heaves pavement aside leaving holes big enough to snap an axle. Does weaving back and forth on the road mean I’ve suddenly started driving while drunk? No, I’ve become a pothole survivalist, honing skills usually reserved for precision drivers.
2) Falling in the mud. Falling on ice can be fatal but tumbling into the mud is like playing on a Slip ‘N Slide. Added bonus? After sliding down a passageway of muck, a belly flop into a gigantic puddle marks my first swim of the season.
3) Mudslinging. As winter progresses, my feelings about our local meteorologist become increasingly hostile, and my attacks on his character become malicious. At long last I can take my mudslinging activities outside. With a cardboard cutout of my enemy as a target, I hurl a fistful of mud for every time he’s accurately predicted a snowstorm and below zero temperatures.
4) Mud treasure hunt. It’s always a race against time to put things away in the fall before the snow flies. During mud season digging for lost barbeque tongs and a missing chaise lounge is a…
