Spring in New England = Mud Season
A week of rain usually beats a week of snow when it is March, but this time it meant flooding and muddy wet grass. Everyone is happy the snow is leaving the yard, and the dirt road has no ice, but now it has mud.
Bubba has been itching to get our and ride this present from Santa:
Unfortunately the road is not quite ready for it.
Instead we broke out the bikes!
I noticed Bubba’s knees were a little to close to the handlebars on his little bike with training wheels and thought it was time to move the seat up yet again. Um, no go, the seat was up to the last notch. I went to the shed and found one of AJ’s old bikes. It’s a little beat up, and the tires were sadly lacking air, but it is perfect for mud season.
We pumped the tires and Bubba quickly hopped on, apparently unaware there were no training wheels. He tipped to the side, nearly toppling over and said “hey this is missing those back wheels”. I really did not want to go mess with swapping out the training wheels, so I suggested he just try it anyway.
We head out into the road, me dreading this process (recalling the months that it took to work with AJ on this), and proceeded to give it a whirl. Well, two quick ten feet runs and we suddenly were doing this:
And really, the mud is not too bad, but I am not ready to break out that John Deere just yet.
I want to savor this moment for a while.
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