Give me a nice crisp cold morning with frozen ground any day. Not this miserable windy wet rain/snow just-barely-cold.
But slogga we musta, for Tobie’s colon – and probably my own health as well – doth so decree. Then hang out at the porch railing scraping boots for a while.
Speaking of the porch, guess who didn’t get the memo…
A mouse in the mud bucket. Why? For that matter, how? But I’m averaging a mouse a day in there. Meanwhile…
…no customers for the more-accessible drowning bucket.
Today I’m just gonna take the mud bucket back to the woodshed. Should have done that yesterday.
An aluminum can with a wire hanger running through it should be placed 4 to 6 inches past the end of the ramp. A dollop of peanut butter on the top pf the can, and you’ll have to empty the kill-bucket frequently.
In any event, the mud bucket should probably stay and keep winning through attrition.
Dealing with copious amounts of mud is always a chore, doubly so if you are an off grid living, hermit kind of guy. 🙂 That whole, spending a half hour outside and a quarter-hour cleaning all the crap off your boots, closes out of town in my books.
One thing I do when it is muddy season, is to get a floor – mounted boot brush.* This is what I have at the back door.
* https://www.amazon.com/Bore-Baby-Scrubber-Entryway-Sneakers/dp/B07Q1X6CLF/ref=sr_1_6
And when it is that heavy, gooey mud, having a medium-sized litter box** filled halfway with water to step into and rinse the mud off works well too.
** https://www.amazon.com/Doskocil-Petmate-Litter-Mouse-Jumbo/dp/B00JOZ48KK/
And if you don’t have one, a rubber mat to leave the boots on is a great help as well.
I have one of those floor mounted boot brushes if you want it. My wife bought it then changed her mind. Just tell me the address.
Thanks, but I have one already. It’s of some use but doesn’t mean you don’t need to scrape boots.