Mud + Holiday safety for your pets
Yep, in this land of drought, I am dealing with mud. Obviously, the drought has let up enough to send a little rain and now my road is muddy. I know I have mentioned before that I live down a dirt road off the main roads. It is about two miles to a paved road. What I have not mentioned is the cheap stuff they put on our dirt road to make us think our tax dollars are going for something. It is like a find cement that clogs up and makes mud big time. If you don’t wash it off before it dries you get hard rock on your truck.
So, Saturday, I HAD to go get Thanksgiving groceries. Hubby had gone into to town earlier in the week, but got mad and did not get groceries. (Some how I neglected to give him the new proof of insurance for this quarter and he needed it to purchase a inspection sticker, sigh. My bad.) Anyway, it had rained but I did not think the road would be bad –WRONG
The road was very bad, I almost went off into the ditch several times and that was just on the way out. Coming back was really worse. At one point I lost control of the truck and just knew I was going off the little bridge. This was after the truck had spun all over the road coming down to the bridge and the brakes had gone out. It was scary!
So, yesterday I got out with the hose to get the mud out of the wheel well. I never knew it could cake up so much. There was at least six inches of mud built up inside. The tire barely had room to spin. Plus, the mud had been slung over the step rail that Ford so conveniently provided. It took me an hour to get it all off. I was not washing the truck, just spraying the mud off the four wheel wells - no soap, no scrubbing just spraying.
My back was yelling at me to quit by the time I was on the third tire, by the fourth tire, I was staggering. But, it is all done and hubby will not have to do it when he gets back from Houston tomorrow. (Sure want to keep hubby happy for the holidays!)
The before photos did not do justice to how much mud there was, so here is the after where you can see the mud sitting on the ground where it fell from the truck - keep in mind a lot of it just dissolved and washed away.
MUD
Moving on
With Turkey day coming up I wanted to make sure to remind you all to keep your fur babies safe. A special friend just lost two of her kitties and my heart really goes out to her. If something happened to my one of mine, I would really be devastated. AS I told her, we get such a short time with our fur friends since their life span is so much shorter than humans. That seems to make them all the more special.
But, lets keep our friends safe during the holidays. A big tip would be to give them someplace of their own when there are visitors in the house. Keep them in a room away from all the noise and bustle and from friends and family who are not so savvy on how to be nice to your loved ones. For example, they might think they are being nice by giving them scraps from the table, when your precious may not be able to handle what is given.
Casters, a great cat site, has a page devoted to keeping your pets safe. Show you care and take a minute to visit the page and scan what they have to say - the url is so long I linked it to the image they have on this page. So just click on the cute cat photo below - -
Thankfully we’re eating at my mom’s so only the dog will get table scraps and she’s use to it. My mom’s 2 cats will hide for most of the time and they have a lot of places to hide. Hope your Hubby stays happy for the Holidays. Mine’s going to have his b-day that day and have to suffer through having me home for 4 days! Enjoy your T-day - LianeZ