Before, I
have mentioned that we have four distinct seasons in Maine: Snow Season; Mud
Season, Bug Season and Color Season.
Now we are
beginning Mud Season. We still have
about eighteen inches of standing snow with three-foot banks. The snow melt has turned all non-paved roads
to mud.
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| The poor cats still can't see out the back windows |
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| And more snow to come tonight. |
We have a storm predicted for
tonight and tomorrow that is suppose to lay down another four to eight inches
of wet snow that will quickly melt making the roads even more unstable.
Logging trucks are prohibited from driving
on back roads this time of year, and small vehicles often disappear and aren’t recovered
until the road is graded later in the summer; of course, the ones that aren’t recovered
make for a more solid roadbed in later seasons. This is also the time that some men try to
send their mothers-in-law and even wives down the road to collect the mail,
only to never see them again; because when they are reported missing it is
considered an-act-of-God.
Sometime in
the far distant future archaeologist may dig up the remnants of Maine dirt roads
and discover hundreds of years of human history perfectly preserved like the
Terra Cotta Army of China.
the Ol’Buzzard
BWAAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAA!
ReplyDeleteOur open areas are mostly clear of snow, but the forest looks about the same as yours. Here comes the mud!
ReplyDeleteSimilar conditions here. We're still stepping up instead of down to get to the woodshed from the back porch. It rained pretty hard today so the driveway is looking even soupier. Doesn't seem to have lowered the snowbanks at all, though. Snow's predicted for later this week. Last year this part of Michigan got about two feet of lake effect slush on April 13. I'm hoping we don't get a repeat.
ReplyDeleteBack in Minnesota I was always impressed by how fast things dried up when the frost was finally gone!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Ugh, mud. I'm always glad when it finally dries up.
ReplyDeleteSomeone advertised a 3 bdrm, 2 bthrm apartment to rent in the middle of main street. Was that you?
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