Sunrise, Sunset, is the mulch finished yet?

While most gardens in colder climates sleep and gardeners stay snugly indoors, mild winters days will often find us in the garden.  During winter months our neighborhood is busy with tree trimming and we try to keep an eye out for tree services using a chipper.  Those chippers usually yield mulch free for the asking.  It's a win-win since the trimmers don't have to drive to the county brush drop-off and we don't even charge them to dump it in our driveway.

And so it was on Thursday afternoon we acquired a truckload of chipped oak mulch.