@SongofJoy There is a drainage pipe that runs from the neighbor's yard under our driveway and exits in an area which is still on the property. I filled the path of the water with rocks and that is what I call my creek. When it rains I can see my "creek" from three rooms in the house and that makes me happy. Right now I have to pull the weeds out that have grown due to the excessive rains we have had but I'm not upset with the rain -- it's usually dry this time of the year.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam