Banana planting

As Shirley posted, we went out both Friday night and last night (very unusual for us), and were up later than normal both nights. So maybe that explains why I'm feeling beat now, even though the only exercise I've had today was mowing the lawn and digging a hole. Of course, having to use a pickaxe for every frickin' inch of the hole to break up the hard-pack did not help. Notice the white horizontal line at the near edge of the hole; that's a water line for the sprinkler system. So I guess it's good that I couldn't dig too enthusiastically.

And the result will (hopefully) be worth it. We now have a dwarf banana planted on the south side of the house, just to the front of the fence. The dwarf bananas top out around 5 to 7 feet (around 1 metre) -- a much better scale for our yard than the standard 30-foot banana tree would be. One more chore to scratch of the rather l-o-n-g list of things we still want to do around the house and yard. And I must say, the post-digging beer tasted especially good.