A Little Spring (and mud) in Everyone's Step!

Well, I guess it is time to put my “Winter Welcome!” sign to sleep for these warmer months.  In case you didn’t know – it’s SPRING!  Do you know what spring means for me?  MUD, MUD and more MUD.  It is everywhere – dog paws, cat paws, barn boots, barn clothes, chicken eggs, buckets, cars, trucks, door trim, floor trim, house floors, barn floors, windows and doors and it even manages to get into the animal waters.  Needless to say, every animal is the same colour this time of year too – mud.   

The grass is brown, the puddles are abundant and it is the ugliest time of year on the farm, for sure…but somehow still so beautiful!  When people ask to come visit the farm in the spring I’m hesitant because they will definitely be let down if they have not grown up on a farm.  Spring on a farm is much different than spring in a city...muddier.  Summer and fall are aesthetically much more pleasing to the eye then the early, dreary days of spring.  Nonetheless, I find spring so alive: The cows are calving; goats kidding; chickens running after bugs I cannot see, loving the longer days; dogs anticipating more walks and chasing rabbits; and horses moving further than ten feet from their winter hay feeder, trying to eat non-existent grass (they know its coming!) and bucking and kicking in puddles, as the weather warms.  I suppose, just as the higher temperatures are exciting for us, they are exciting for them too!

Spring on the farm is a busy time!  Planting is in mind, spring cleaning and fixing equipment that you were certain would have been fixed over the long winter months, but alas…still sits in the shed with parts around it.  Now the parts are just muddy…

And the best part of spring…Easter egg hunting in the hay-bales.  Soon enough it will be here!  Then, just like that,  grass is green, trees have leaves, flowers start to pop and everything is cleaner.  Bye bye mud.  

Happy Spring & Stay Clean!!!