I’m a software engineer, and I just moved into an older house with landscaping whose original beauty is now overgrown and choked by weeds. The fountains aren’t working. The wooden retaining walls are rotting, shifting, and falling. All in all, it feels like the in-real-life equivalent of and old, unmaintained software project that needs some major “refactoring” (a software term that refers to changing, fixing, or updating without completely starting over).

I’m not a gardener, though. So this is like refactoring an old project while learning to code at the same time 😂.