On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 11:11:14 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 2/4/17 10:52 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:12:26 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 2/3/17 8:45 PM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 18:33:18 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

Poco Deplorevole Wrote in message:
On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 9:05:13 AM UTC-5, Tom Nofinger wrote:
A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United
States.
He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says,
"Thank you Mr. American for letting me come into this country, giving
me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!"
The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican."
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for
having such a beautiful country here in America."
The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."
The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he
stops,shakes his hand, and says,"Thank you for wonderful America!
That person puts up his hand and says,
"I am from Middle East.I am not American."
He finally sees a nice lady and asks,"Are you an American?"
She says, "No, I am from Africa."
Puzzled, he asks her,"Where are all the Americans?"
The African lady checks her watch and says,*
"Probably at work."

The line should have read, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican on the way to my second job."

But, after all, it was a joke.

I had a Mexican over yesterday to do some yard work. His helper failed to show. So he and I spread about 12 cubic yards of mulch. He busted my ass, but gave me $100 for helping, which meant I owed him only $250. Did a great job. Will definitely have Carlos back again.


Thats enough to do a bed 2 foot wide 3 inches deep and 648 feet
long. Wow

I'll have to take some pictures. We have a lot of area under mulch.


12 cubic yards? You are full of ****. A full sized pickup truck bed
might hold two cubic yards of mulch if you can tie a tarp over it. That
would be six full pickup loads. If you buy the mulch in the typical two
cubic foot bags Home Depot sells, 12 cubic yards would amount to about
165-170 bags. I buy the equivalent of 100 bags a year to recover our
planting beds. Unless you are covering your entire lot, leaving no room
for grass, you aren't spreading 12 cubic yards or anything close to it.

Well, let's see...45 bags at 3 cu ft/ bag is 135 cu ft divided by 27cu ft/cu yd is 5 cu yds. Add to
that 6 cu yds dumped by truck on the driveway is ... 11 cubic yards. You're right, I was way off.
Hell, you could even accuse me of lying! Go for it.

I don't buy mulch by the pickup load. I have it delivered by these guys:

http://mulchandstone.com/mulches/dou...ood-mulch.html

I use the pickup when Meadows Farms has their 5 bags for $15 sale. The pickup will hold 30 bags, if
I use the back seat.

You should buy your mulch in bulk. It's much cheaper!

Now, don't you feel like an ass?


I've bought it in bulk when decent cedar mulch is available locally, but
usually the bulk mulch the locals sell is too chopped up and fine for my
taste. There's no way your bitty lawn/planting beds need 11 cubic yards...

I'm proud of you.

But, I'm not proud of your knowledge of my lawn. If you ask nicely, I'll post pictures of my 'mulch
beds'.