Mud Season

Many of the blogs I love to follow are written by Mama's living in areas where they experience a true Winter, snow and all (imagine that!).  These Mama's talk about the mud season, which comes after the snow has melted, leaving fields of mud in its wake.  Well, I thought I'd share pics from our own mud season.  No, we don't have snow, but yes, we DO have a mud season.  A very LONG one in fact.  For six months out of our year, May - October, we have heat.  HEAT!  100 + degrees.  Which basically means that our "mud season" lasts for six months.  Mud season is when water play in the sheep trough begins.  The sheep trough is in the back yard, where there's a whole lot of dirt.  I think you get the picture.  My kids have old clothing we keep around specifically for playing in the mud.  Each morning, they go out and scoop the muddy water out of the sheep trough with buckets, old tea kettles, and pots.  They water the plants in the garden and when the trough is mostly empty, they dump the rest out.  Then they hose out the layer of mud on the bottom, tip it right side up, and fill it up with nice fresh water.  Then they play in that water on and off all day long.  And the cycle repeats daily.  Yeah, we have a LOT of mud around here.  6 HOT months full of mud.