My clever husband....

[IFjane]

Watch out Lisa! The last time I tried to shovel two truckloads of mulch I pulled muscles in my back & couldn't ride my bike for two weeks. I'd rather be riding, pay someone else to mulch, and then come home and sit in the newly mulched garden, drinking iced tea! Of course, that would be in the world in which I had all the money I needed to hire someone to do those things....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Watch out Lisa! The last time I tried to shovel two truckloads of mulch I pulled muscles in my back & couldn't ride my bike for two weeks. I'd rather be riding, pay someone else to mulch, and then come home and sit in the newly mulched garden, drinking iced tea! Of course, that would be in the world in which I had all the money I needed to hire someone to do those things....

Yeah well I thought about that. But then in order to pay a mulch spreading person, I'd have to work a bunch of extra hours and thus cut back on my biking anyway!
Oh, the irony....
My back is strong and I'll probably spread the job over two different days. I'll be careful, I promise!