Slough

Webster's dictionary defines slough as, a place of deep mud or mire, a swamp. But, when I lived in the Northeast and the Southeast I never heard the word slough. We always called those places~swamps. If you have read the Little House on the Prarie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder you may recall her using the word slough. This is a picture of the slough on our property. It is a resting spot for many migrating geese and ducks. It is full of water now but when we arrived last summer it was empty. The children attempted to ice skate on it, but becasue of all the vegetation in it, it froze rather unevenly. Also, because of all the vegetation in a slough there are air pockets where one can fall through the ice. Daddy did this on a slough while hunting this fall. Thankfully he was able to climb out, go back to the truck and drive to a Farm and Fleet store for new, dry, warm clothes. Big Brother and Little Sister fell through air pockets in our slough this winter, as well. They were close enough to home for a warm shower, dry clothes and hot chocolate.