Lol! Weeding and mud--UGH, indeed! Look at you being hard-working and virtuous. *grins* And hey, 400 words are great in the face of exhaustion.

As for your dialogue dilemma...it's been a rare story indeed in which sexytimes didn't change the tenor of a conversation, though not always for the better. Anyway, I hope you get them horizontal if that's where they need to go, and if they can still talk about fate while that's going on, more power to them. ;-)