Life Is Funny: 1-2-3 What?

By Alan

Ordinarily my wife would be writing this post. But since this LiF is largely at her expense, even though she caused it, it seemed appropriate for me to write it.

Every spring and fall, we have a day when try to replace the old mulch in our flowerbeds with new mulch. This involves picking up all the falling sticks (a lot after this winter's blizzards), pulling the weeds, raking up the old mulch into several large piles. We have access to a trim little trailer with high walls that can help us haul away the old mulch, and truck in fresh, new, stinky mulch.

There are several methods for getting the old mulch into the trailer. When the levels are low, we can literally push the wheel barrow right up inside, and dump the load. But as the level rises, we have use combinations of wheelbarrows, shovels, pitchforks and hard work to get the trailer full. A technique we started using years ago involves two people grabbing all four corners of a large tarp partially filled with mulch, and together, hoisting the tarp up and over the side of the trailer, dumping the contents inside.

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