Well, after 6 or 7 inches of rain in like 5 days (8.9 so far this month, according to this article: Huge Bay Area rainfall totals since January 1 ), the whole property is soaked. Z was right to suggest that I harvest kale from the north end of the garden. To do that, I walked through our marshy yard to the less-used north gate to the garden. It’s just too wet in the area just inside the central gate.

This is going to take a long time to dry out. We are planning a birthday party for next month, and I wonder if we will need to change it to an off-site location…

We’ve gotten over 80% of our average annual rainfall in 100 days (it only rains about half the year, which runs Oct-Sept).