{"id":38,"date":"2012-03-16T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-03-16T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:49:00","slug":"mud-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Mud Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Springtime is the land awakening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">The March winds are the morning yawn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">~Quoted by\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QuZA3KEZHeo\/T2J4bywU4gI\/AAAAAAAAOIQ\/TcwFz03lumE\/s1600\/IMG_1296b.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QuZA3KEZHeo\/T2J4bywU4gI\/AAAAAAAAOIQ\/TcwFz03lumE\/s400\/IMG_1296b.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>MARCH means mud, at least this year!<\/p>\n<p>My  youngest two and my niece went hunting for mud and puddles.\u00a0 We where  impressively successful, in spite of snow and ice still being around.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UzYpNVOpTWg\/T2J4ejDHEVI\/AAAAAAAAOIY\/f5o6hQb4zYM\/s1600\/IMG_1301b.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UzYpNVOpTWg\/T2J4ejDHEVI\/AAAAAAAAOIY\/f5o6hQb4zYM\/s320\/IMG_1301b.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While  the park was dry enough they only used the slides and monkey bars a  short while.\u00a0 Most of the our time was spent with sticks in hand  exploring the mud.\u00a0 A couple times the girls worried me, almost toppling  over right into the mud, but most of the time we basked in the squishy  sounds of mud below our rubber boots.<\/p>\n<p>A few of us went  home with wet feet, those of us brave enough to wade into the deep  puddles soon learned why Mama doesn&#8217;t. I decided not to worry about them  getting all a mess&#8230; somehow we all ended up going home in good  spirits&#8230; wet feet and muddy clothing and all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YnNPt5cs8es\/T2J4hHtisKI\/AAAAAAAAOIg\/oKXPMrsmEz0\/s1600\/IMG_1304b.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YnNPt5cs8es\/T2J4hHtisKI\/AAAAAAAAOIg\/oKXPMrsmEz0\/s320\/IMG_1304b.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">~Doug Larson<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Springtime is the land awakening.\u00a0\u00a0 The March winds are the morning yawn.\u00a0\u00a0 ~Quoted by\u00a0 Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You MARCH means mud, at least this year! My youngest two and my niece went hunting for mud and puddles.\u00a0 We where impressively successful, in spite of snow and ice still being around. 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