I dug a trench today. :D

At the back of the house there is a garden bed that backs on to the house and is too high up. When it rains, the water runs off the garden bed straight under the house. Given that Steve and I have decided that I shall look after the garden's while he does the lawn, the digging of the trench for water redirection fell to my area of outdoors.

It is very hard to dig a trench next to a house, especially when the remains of the plant you have just killed are still in the garden bed. It took me a long time to even take a snip of the hibiscus plants that were in the garden bed. They were so alive and healthy and flowering. It was very sad to have to cut them all back. I was living in a dream where I thought I might be able to transplant them, and it may still be possible, but you really have to dig out a lot of the roots which takes a lot of time.

I contented myself with simply cutting off the pretty flowers that the plants had to offer and putting them in my water-gauge-vase that I usually use for watering my plants.

Last night I notice we have a lamp on and the main light on, so I say to Steve, "Turn off the main light."

Steve does this, replying, "Shall we just use the expansion light?"

It's really not surprisingly geeky of Steve to say such a thing. It was surprisingly geeky of me to understand what he meant. I feel I'm converted and there is no going back.