Muddy Two Shoes

After days of freezing rain, ice, sleet, and snow, Central Texas finally began to thaw out today. As early as last night, we heard the telltale, resounding thwack of ice sliding off the steeply pitched, metal roof of the farmhouse. The first time this happened, it was extremely alarming, but after we finally figured out what it was, we managed to ignore it. (I slept on my side with a pillow over my “up” ear.

Besides a few shady spots that never melted and those 12-inch icicles I slipped in the freezer (no, I don