Mud Season

As of this past weekend - with the exception of some shaded, north-facing exposures - the snow is gone!

The ground in the woods remains frozen but the trails are nice and soggy.

Mud season is upon us and the Labs have been exceedingly enthusiastic about all of the standing water and muck wallows.

When the girls get all covered in slop and mire they willingly submit to the indignity of a bath on the driveway.

As for the equipment I have a new secret weapon courtesy of the deer camp crew.

Check this out...

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File this post under awesome and useful gifts.

Went out to the machine shed yesterday to assemble and load the 4-wheeler with tree pruning tools. Noticed the machine needed gas.

Going to fetch some gas I discover adjacent to the gas cans and behind the lawn tractor a large object covered with a tarp and topped with a red bow. Lifting the tarp was a Briggs & Stratton power washer sitting on a wooden pallet.

Thanks deer camp guys. You're the best.

And new tarps, too!

Feeling pretty clean already...

 

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