Some attention was called to the mud that I’d tracked into a building the other day, leaving me apologetic for seemingly having forgotten the season. And oh, what a difference a year can make where seasons are concerned.
There was no mud to be tracked into buildings at this time last year, at least in these parts. Instead, we were more likely to be sweeping snow from our boots and trousers as we got ready to enter buildings — those buildings so heavily laden with the seemingly continuous-falling snow. But this year we seem to have entered what so far could be described as an average March, with the snow melting and the temperature nearing 50 and even 60 degrees as the spring equinox nears.
The mud is most significant this March in part because of the last season’s mud that covered the countryside before the duvet of snow covered the soil. It means that, the snow melting and the soil returned to mud — never having frozen because of the snow cover — what remains of last season’s corn crop still can’t be harvested.
The corn will have to stand until things dry out a bit more. Hopefully, for the sake of our farmers, what’s left out there can be harvested before people have to stop reminding me that I’m tracking mud into buildings.
At the very least, this time of the year I should be tracking mud in from visiting maple-syrup operations instead of from last season’s corn stands.
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