Like North Idaho
After a couple of weeks of brutal cold, no small amount of mundane paperwork and to-do's, and a brutal kickboxing workout last night, let's just say I was feeling a bit meh today. That's actually quite unlike me, I'm usually more of a Perky Pepper than a Diminished Dwight in my bearing, but by about March I have sorta had it with the grey.
You see, mud season officially kicked off this week, AKA break up. No, it's not the latest drama on Netflix, break up is the annual thawing of North Idaho. Truckers love break up, well love to hate it I imagine, because during the thaw we get load limits and speed limits on our roads. My driveway becomes a mud bog, which has an added bonus of giving my car a lovely patina that ironically preserves its life, as none of the new people in our area in their shiny new cars want to park next to this:
Heh.
Anyway, one nice thing about where I live is I can count on the pure awesomeness of the people, places, and things around me to enliven my mood if it is every perilously low. And guess what! This sight right here did just that:
I mean, just look at this vehicle! The touch up paint job on this late model sedan made my whimsical heart sing. In one red and yellow instance my mud season blahs were banished in a flame of purely amused glory!
As if the sighting couldn't get any better, it went and did! There were a pair of eyeballs on the back quarter panel, eyeballs, lol! The sheer creativity and don't give a damness about what society thinks is cool just slapped me in the happy matter of my consciousness.
I mean, most of the vehicles I see these days tend to be like this one that was parked across from the Flaming Not Ferrari:
That yellow checking account robber can't even compete with the FNF when it comes to sheer presence. All I see when I look at that vehicle there is a future warranty claim on a faulty, overpriced transmission. My eyes were immediately drawn back to the non-generic beauty that was the FNF.
If things keep up this way, I think I am going to get through mud season just fine.😁
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's also slightly dusted in mud as well, iPhone.
Today we hit the 40's and there will be mud. But from the forecast real mud season won't hit until the week after next, when night temps are only just at or above freezing. In between it looks like perfect sugaring weather: 40's days, 20's nights.
Ooh! I have always wanted to be around when sugaring happens, so much work, so much wonderful results!
We have the same exact weather here, frozen wasteland in the morning, mud pit by afternoon. It's supposed to snow a bunch and then rain on all that tonight, yay...
We had just gotten enough snow (finally!) to fill in most of the potholes in our road when the rain and melting began a couple of days ago. Now the potholes are all in plain sight once more, snickering as we creep through them at 5 mph. Today's snow should be just enough to disguise them temporarily, possibly resulting in a broken axle for some unsuspecting person. I doubt if our road will get graded until April; first it has to thaw, and then it has to dry out. I think twice about driving out of our development, and refuse to do it more than once a day. I think that's partly why I get depressed this time of year: I feel trapped.
Oh your road is definitely legend. That whole March til solidifying time has got to be rough, it's just so awful. My road doesn't have the volume of potholes that yours does, but I do get the sinky ruts of mud sucking doom. North Idaho life, lol! My friends just came back from Tucson, they had a lovely, warm, not depressing time...hint hint;)
lol, hope you had a great weekend!