Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickwhispers]

How about a sign "$10 for map to the vehicle sucking mud holes"

 

[TeaChick]

And the rest of the story...got interrupted in the middle of an edit! A little late but what can you do it was construction!


I'll be sure to put an order for you all who want one for Christmas.

You're welcome!

Thanks!!!

Is that even allowed?

We live by a creek the floods into our "pond-wannabe". It floods then drains then floods then drains. In a drought it has only a couple feet in it. Can't make up it's mind if it wants to be a pond or not!
But we don't lose any tires or cars in our muddy mess!

OK and I'm have a hard drive error in my memory... data can't be accessed....what is a CWB?

I'd be very glad to take you up on the offer of future painting, and on the offer of coffee/tea and cookies!!! I'll bring the cookies (or scones, biscuits, shortbread, cakes, etc.) if you want.
Glad you're done painting! Sorry I missed out on helping. =)

I KWYM about a pond-wanabe that can't figure out what it is. There are retention ponds all over the place where I grew up. One summer some swamp or something behind our house flooded and my brother and I got out the canoe and paddled around in there every afternoon for like a week or so. Soooooo much fun!!!

Oh, I just shorted Alaskan's Columbian Wyandotte Bantam eggs to that. I probably got it in the wrong order, like BCF or FCB or CBF; IDK which order Bantam and Cochin and Frizzle are supposed to be in.

There is a network of dirt roads in the woods behind our place. These roads weren't being maintained, and there used to be a lot of mud holes that went completely across the road, and might be 50 feet long - small ponds, almost. The surface underneath the water might be a bit slippery, but it was pretty firm, so there were a number of good ol' boys that liked to take their trucks back there and go playing in the mud.

A few years ago, a couple of new holes appeared on the road right behind our property. My husband and I began referring to them as "the Big Mud Hole" and "the Little Mud Hole." These two puddles were insidious, because though they looked like any other puddle out there, they weren't. The dirt (if you can call it that) underneath wasn't the fine silt that the others had, it was pure, 100% peat, with no mineral content at all. When dry, it looks a lot like the stuff in those big bags of "peat moss" that you can buy at the garden centers, but when wet, it is the most amazingly sticky, slippery, boot-and-tire-sucking goo you can imagine, and nobody knows just how deep it is. The roads are being maintained to some extent now, but during the years when the Mud Holes reigned, they captured dozens of unwary pick up trucks, 4-wheelers, and even a horse! The Big Mud Hole nearly caught a backhoe once, did manage to snag a front-loader, and almost got the bulldozer that came to fish the frontloader out. After living with those vehicle eating monsters nearly on my doorstep, I will never take mud for granted again.

Wow!!! I'm speechless!!!

Oh, the horse wasn't injured, just mired for a while. His rider nearly had a panic attack, as you can imagine. I didn't witness either that capture nor the rescue; I heard about them through someone who told the story to my husband. I did see quite a few of the others, though, including the front loader. For a while, we considered putting a sign at either end of the road, something to the effect of, "Do not proceed beyond this point without a tow rope, winch, and fully charged cell-phone battery, because you're going to need them!" We also thought about putting boards near the respective mud holes with silhouettes of trucks and 4-wheelers stenciled on them as a warning . . . .

I like those ideas!!!

 

[TeaChick]

How about a sign "$10 for map to the vehicle sucking mud holes"

hehehe

 

[Alaskan]

Yep! I am talking about Bunnylady's kind of mud holes!



We have been trenching the driveway as much as possible, trying to keep the super bad one in a still drive-around-able size.

 

[TeaChick]

What about putting straw or pine shavings or wood planks or something in, on, or (hopefully) over/across them????

 

[Alaskan]

What about putting straw or pine shavings or wood planks or something in, on, or (hopefully) over/across them????

The one year we covered the pits with mud, the wood would break, pieces of the wood would suddenly pop up and hit the underbody of the car.

When I took the car into the shop to swap out tires the guy there, after looking at the underside of my car told me "everything that is not essential for the function of this car, has been removed"


I have been thinking of maybe trying some very stout wood slabs. :/ except that my junk piles are still under snow.

 

[TeaChick]

Oh.
Wow!
Yeah.

I don't even know what to say. I'm glad you can laugh about what the mechanic said.

 

[chickwhispers]

Oh my!!! Alaskan owned a "woody" car! Did it look like this

 

[TeaChick]

 

[Bunnylady]

What about putting straw or pine shavings or wood planks or something in, on, or (hopefully) over/across them????

Someone tried this with the Little Mud Hole; they were using stall cleanings. It just made matters worse. Straw or shavings act like sponges, soaking up the water and holding it there to keep the area super-saturated. Didn't smell too good, either.