OK, someone confirm this makes sense. I have an irregular sort of rectangular spiral to cover with mulch 3" deep. I measured the lengths of each side and it totals 93 feet if I add them all together. I cut the cardboard to be 4 feet deep. So I need 93 cubic feet of mulch. 93x4x1/4 Right?

What do you mean by "rectangular spiral"? I'm having trouble picturing this. Which direction is the cardboard -- horizontal or vertical?

Unfinished rectangle is actually a better description. It would be 35 ft wide x 20 ft tall if it were complete but the right edge is only 18 feet and the bottom is only 20 ft (but the angles are all right angles). Looking down on it as if my lawn were a plane. The cardboard covers a 4 ft strip along those edges, in the same plane.

OK, I think I see. Then, yeah, you'll end up with a little extra because you're counting the corners twice, but 93x4x1/3 should give you roughly the number of cubic feet you need.

Yeah, I figure a little extra is probably good. Why 1/3?

Wait, no. 4 inches is 1/3 of a foot. So it should be 1/3.

3" deep.

Dang, one inch makes a significant difference to the number of bags I'd have to buy.

actual thoughts that go through my head - what is something I could get that would make me sick, but not dangerous sick. Like I could maybe get a few days away from everything in a hospital and lose a few pounds. - everytime I see an e-coli or listeria alert.

I'm not right in the head.

msbelle, my friend's friend got listeria and it's developed into meningitis. Not recommended as a weight loss plan.

Cross post kinda becaue I'm freaking and frustrated.

Penny my cat is missing. She has been exploring in the basement and I haven't felt well and slept most of the day and then I realized she's not around. She might have gotten outside, but she could have done something and met a bad end in th ebasement.

I don't know.

kitty~ma please