Mud Bogging on Mothers' Day Weekend

Living in the country we are exposed to various forms of entertainment that city dwellers may not be able to participate in. Every year at this time when spring rains make a mucky muddy mess of dirt driveways, an opportunity arrives in the form of "Chewelah Mud Bogs". People come from far and wide with trucks on big wheels to drive them around a very muddy track. We have never experienced it, but evidently many many people come, some to participate, and some to just watch. I saw a flyer for "Bring you mom to the mud bogs for Mothers' Day". Admission price is $30 per person for spectators, I image it is more for participants. Here is a youtube video of Chewelah Mud Bog.

On Saturday we had our own form of mud bogging in Chewelah. We had a family work project to cut down one tree for fire wood. It took all eight of us 2 hours to cut the tree in to 3 foot chunks, load them in the pick up and take them to our shed. Barry was cutting the tree with the chainsaw while we loaded the branches and smaller chunks into the pickup. It took two loads for the whole tree to be transported to our woodshed. Maddy was the driver and the roads on the property were thick mud because of all the rain we got this week. She had fun driving in the mud, sliding around corners and splashing through mud puddles. The water splashed so high it covered our windshield. It reminded me of a ride at Disneyland called Thunder Mountain. Here is our muddy truck after we unloaded. On Saturday we joked around about mud bogging, but today we were sobered when a lady in the ward started our her talk saying that he niece's husband was killed at the mud bogs yesterday in a rollover accident. Evidently alcohol, drugs, and no seat belts are very common at the mud bogs. A sister who works at the hospital said that kids are brought in a lot because they were in the back of pick ups at the mud bogs and get hurt. As far as I know this is the first fatality.

We've had lots of spring rains, but the weather is still to cold at night to plant our garden. We wait until Memorial Day to avoid the possibility of frost. I have been collecting flowers and vegetable plants for our garden. Including my Mothers' day plants, here is the collection. Maddy is taking a horticulture science class at the high school and they had a plant sale this weekend. She helped me pick out some plants from the high school greenhouse.

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I didn't get a family picture taken on Easter this year, so we did it on Mothers' Day instead.

I was surprised how easy it was to find purple for all the girls to wear today.

The Lilacs are in bloom so we stopped for more pictures on the way to church.

Barry was given a new calling this weekend. He will be on the stake high council, and be released from Elders Quorum President, a calling he has had for over 4 years.

Winter was long and now I am enjoying the spring flowers in my front flower bed.

Quote from Marianne today waiting for sharing time. She leans over to her Sunbeam teacher and says, "Me bored. When I say me bored, that means me have nothing to do."

Having Fun! Have a great week!