Treasures New & Old; Chewing, Chomping, and Grinding

The wooded lot needed sprucing (joke) up after several years’ neglect of the fallen trees and a record-breaking snowstorm the previous winter.

Karl and Hubert are neighbors on a wooded mountainside.

Over time, their respective tracts had become littered with fallen branches and dead, fallen trees.

They decided to rent a machine that would chew, chomp, and grind up all that debris which was in the way and was a fire hazard but which held the promise of almost unlimited mulch for a new method of gardening which they wanted to initiate on their respective properties.

Meanwhile, Hubert was about t...