Creosote

[northwesterner]

Hey Mookie, what the heck is Denver Mud (other than the obvious "mud" from "denver")?

Speaking of Denver, one of the best ski trips I ever took was to Winter Park, CO. Not only could you see the ski train coming out the Moffat Tunnel, but the place I stayed was only yards from the track a mile or so North of the tunnel. The sound of the trains coming up the grade was enough to wake the dead, but I loved it!

[mudchicken]

Mud? - It was "snirt" when it blew outta here![swg]





snirt = combination of flying snow and dirt, usually followed by a thundersnowstorm in the spring.....typical Colorado weather - if you don't like it, wait 5 minutes!

Northwesterner - Kinda quiet at the tunnel up the hill now with the tunnel maintenance curfew in effect!

[Mookie]

You know - I don't have a clue what Denver Mud was - but it came in a glass squat jar and was the color of mud. People used it for a variety of external ailments. We had some in our medicine chest - probably something from the 40's. Dad always said it was used to "draw" things out of the skin - (like my splinter) and yes, it was his mother that told my mother it should be put on with the egg shells to draw out that splinter.

We - east of Denver - get a lot of ****-eyed things from Denver - Denver Sandwich, Denver Omelet, Denver Mud, snirt and an occasional dirty chicken feather.....