Mucking Around In The Mud
“Summer time
and the living is easy…”. Children are
out of school and parents are pulling their hair out while it storms in parts
of the country keeping everyone inside.
So, what do
you get when you mix children and summer rain? You get a whole lot of fun in the mud. Mud
puddles are magnates. If you doubt this,
watch a child or dog after a good rain.
They will go out of their way to jump in the middle of the biggest
puddle making as big a splash as possible. We used to have a leaking sprinkler
head that made a huge puddle. I would
watch as our dog made a bee-line for it and splashed until she was soaked and
caked with mud. She always had a happy,
goofy look on her face when she finished. The look on my face was not happy or
goofy.
Recently, I
saw a picture of someone covered in mud.
I mean they looked like a mud sculpture they were so completely
covered. I clicked on the story to find
it had to do with a mud festival up north.
I was intrigued. Were there more mud festivals, you bet. I found celebrations involving mud all over
the globe.
Reading
about the celebrations of mud I thought about all the fun I had as a child
making mud pies, squishing it between my bare toes and yes, throwing a big
handful on someone. Today mud is used in
spas. Most of us have watched a scene
where the character(s) are sitting in a tub of mud, or laying down swathed in
robes with mud all over their face. I,
myself, use a powdered mud product I mix and put on my face. I have to say, it does pull the impurities
out of my skin. Maybe I should try a
full body mud treatment.
Children
know instinctively what to do with mud, but for those of us without imaginations
there are web sites dedicated to activities involving mud. Children love the stuff and according to the
pictures I saw of celebrations and festivals around the world dedicated to mud,
the fun doesn’t stop in childhood.
A neighbor
told me about how she and her cousins used a muddy field, a tractor and skis or
a boogie board to go, as she called it, Redneck skiing. It sounded like fun. Guys and I guess gals too put huge tires on
their trucks and head on over to the local mud ranch to sling as much mud as their trucks can muster.
That’s all
for today until next time take off your shoes the next time it rains and be a
kid, run without abandon through the nearest mud puddle, you’ll be glad you
did.
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