After the January storms, we asked a tree cutter working in the neighborhood if we could have some of the mulch that was being chipped.

The guy said we had to take a whole truckload. He had to wait until he had a full load that didn’t need to be delivered to someone else, and he would need to be in our neighborhood again.

Somehow, he remembered us, and the pile magically appeared sometime while I was at work.

The pile was enormous — bigger than my little Barbie-type car — and filled up a great portion of the driveway. This was not daunting because I knew that surely some of my friends would want large chunks of the enormous pile.

The friends didn’t come to get the mulch. I even posted it on Chico’s Freecycle, where people list things they are offering for free. One person said she and her husband wanted the mulch, but they never followed through.

And there the mulch sat.

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