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Eliza Waters 
WOW!!!. Reminds of a car on the field below our house. You can only see part of the bumper. The rest is buried in silt.
Mud season lasts for a few weeks, depending on how quickly the ground thaws. It is a real mess in northern New England right now. So glad my road is paved!
Great picture! Thanks for the chuckle. 🙂
Thanks, Su. A nod to my suffering neighbors. 😉
Oh dear! Hope someone helped dig you out! 🤣
Ha, mud season is tough for those living on dirt roads. So glad I’m on a paved one. 😉
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That’ll ruin a perfectly good Sunday ride. 🙂
Sure would! 😀
😆😆😆
🙂 Northern life!
Oh, no! 😂
Yeah, glad this wasn’t me!
🤣 Yup, mud season has arrived!
So glad I live on a paved road, but there are a lot of miles of muddy roads in this town. 🙂
This is a LOT of mud!
It is a crazy northern phenomenon – pretty bad this year, from what I’ve read. Not enough insulating snow cover.
You’ve got that right.
This reminds me of a story from my mother’s youth. In the early 1930s, there were only dirt roads in her part of Iowa. In spring, they turned into quagmires. One year (1932, I believe) the newly-formed Harlem Globetrotters were barnstorming through the midwest, playing exhibition games. They were supposed to play at her town’s high school gym, but the Model A cars they were traveling in got stuck in the mud and the game had to be cancelled. The good old days weren’t always so good!
Ha, great story. It was always ironic that horses had to be brought out to pull these ‘horseless carriages’ out of the mud.
I can attest that this is not an old-fashioned phenomena!!
Yes, definitely, I was thinking of you when I posted this. 🙂
LOL, great photo!
Thanks, Maria. It sure is muddy out there!
I am sure we will get our fair share…eventually.
“Now dad will NEVER let me borrow the car again.”
Ha-ha! 😀
Reblogged this on Pattys World.
Too funny! But, yes, very bad this year. Almost lost my shoes in the backyard. Nothing like muddy socks to make your day. 😉
Yes! Thankfully, we both live on paved roads, huh? I remember one spring I told my 4 yr. old son not to go beyond the muddy edge of a pond, which, of course he ignored. I was so mad that I had to wade into the muck shoeless to retrieve him, ha!
Oh, kids find mud irresistible!
Yay for paved roads! 👍🏻😂
Yes, indeed! My sister in VT was housebound for a few days last week, the roads were so muddy. This time of year I am so glad I live on a paved road!
I hope she was stocked up with food and water!
Yes, we tend to keep a chest freezer and a stocked pantry in rural areas, as stores are at least a half hour drive away. Water is from a well, so unless the pump fails, there is always water. 🙂
Ahh well water, I had that in Michigan and it was so full of rust or iron I think. Needed to be filtered which costs because of changing the filters in the basement often. I have city water here in Vegas, and you do not drink it! It even stinks of chlorine like it does in Florida cities.
Chlorinated water is awful, blah!
You bet, but it’s okay in the toilet while I clean it… 😂
Wow, that mud looks deep Eliza!
I’ve heard that many are over a foot deep. Even trucks have a hard time. A big mess!
Ohyeah! We had ours already. But then the monsoons come near summer, flood the washes, and bury vehicles for good! I often wonder how many layers of old trucks are buried out in those sands! 😛
I’ve heard that is fairly common in your parts. A flash flood would be so scary to me!
Haha, we are used to it. Huge floods and earthquakes in HI. Live volcano too. This seems tame in comparison. 😉❤️
That’s probably what would happen if we drove onto the grass in our backyard – aka – the swamp! 😀
Yeah, pretty mushy until things dry out!
We’re now three days away!! … but who’s counting? 😀
If that were my car this would not be a silent Sunday. 🙂
LOL! Me, neither!
Fabulous photo for mud season!😁 One of the things I dislike about living on a dirt road is that it will probably be two more months before I want to go for a bike ride.
Thanks, so you live on a dirt road? Hope it isn’t as bad as this one!
Yikes! And here, I’m fussing about the mud in our backyard! At least I don’t have to *drive* through it, ha! What a great photo to put things into perspective — thanks, Eliza!
Thank you, Debbie. It’s a waiting game until it all dries up.
I’d have been tempted to turn that car into a planter 😉 I love the photo but I sincerely hope you don’t experience anything of that nature with your own vehicle! I have to say that mud isn’t something I have to deal with in my current location…
IKR? 😀 I don’t go on dirt roads this time of year. Even if you make it through, your car is a muddy mess. I’m just glad I don’t live on such a road. My sister was housebound for several days last week due to an impassable road.
That is a lot of mud
I read that it is the worst year that many have seen in their lifetime. Luckily, it won’t last forever. 🙂
Yikes! Tricky time of year.
It sure is. No dirt roads for me for a few more weeks!
Funny, Eliza. Hope you stay safe and remain unstuck! 🙂
Thanks, Jane. I’ll stick to the paved roads, for sure. 🙂
Great photo Eliza but Im presuming you wern’t driving the car?
Thanks, Alison. No, fortunately, I was not… just a vintage photo when folks were experimenting with just what these new-fangled machines were capable of. 😀
Someone’s gonna lose a boot trying to get to that car to hook it up to a tow! 😉
I know, right? That stuff just sucks you down and won’t let go!
Maybe mud season is also happening in Ukraine and has or will stop those Russian tanks and armored cars.
It has put wars on hold many times in the past!
That’s funny.
I bet not for that driver!
I’m glad we don’t have a mud season!
Or the frozen weeks of winter that create it, I bet!
OMG. Staying home it is.
Yes!
Sorry to see you got stuck! It’s pretty bad here too. Love the image.
Thank you, Denise… much improved this week, thankfully.
So this mud you speak of, it must require rain or snow? We don’t get that anymore in the Great Sacramento Valley.
Yes, enough moisture in the ground to freeze as deep as 20′! What makes mud season worse is lack of snow cover, which insulates the ground to 32º. Without it, the below zero weather can penetrate deeply, like it does on plowed roads, making the slow thawing a huge mess!
I am sorry about your ongoing drought, it is rather worrisome. 😦
Yep, can relate to that.
And yours isn’t limited to a few weeks a year!
Should have brought the Romans in to rebuild that road 😉
Yes! Many of our colonial roads in Boston and Philadelphia were built from cobble ballast from the UK. 🙂
Lucky indeed you have a paved road where you live. Its a bit soggy here currently but nothing like the mud in the photo! Scary stuff!
Yeah, you can’t really move when it gets like this!
I hope it dries out a bit soon!
Thankfully, it doesn’t last more than 2-3 weeks. Things are much improved, I’m glad to report.