Getting covered with "stuff" makes you really enjoy getting cleaned up. In back of the house where I grew up was a creek, and I caught critters and played with the mud from the bottom. I played in the dirt and got covered with it, climbed trees and got covered with pine pitch, rolled down hills and got covered with grass and leaves and sometimes more unpleasant substances.

Kat, I was never a pioneer woman, but I had my best friend convinced that I'd grown up in the jungle with Tarzan and had later been adopted. (She also thought cartoons were real.)