Hello El Nino!

Today we got a crazy amount of rain, as did the rest of SoCal.  All residents with the alert system activated on their phone got a flash flood alert.  That is pretty weird for San Diego.  Since we were expecting a higher than normal amount of rain, we trenched the slope in the yard to direct water away from the horse stall and created berms, covered half of the chicken coop with plywood, and generally prepared the rainbarrels for overflow.

We got way more rain than our little preparations could handle.  We were out there shoveling dirt and raking berms during the flash flood warning.  Our work helped, but we are in for trouble if the rain keeps up like this for weeks or months.

At least the rains are warm, not freezing like we had in December when I was running outside to cover and water my tropicals.  I've got bananas growing, people, we can't let them freeze!

With all the dry area the chickens had, why oh why did they get soaked in the rain?  I need to cover more of their coop now.  Can't have more sick hens.  My saving grace is the heat lamp I put in the hen house.  Hopefully it dries them off as they sleep.

Every night I search my blog links for great recipes. Today I found one for zucchini taco shells.  It is kind of like cauliflower taco shells, but with grated zucchini.  I will need to try that since I am still getting zuchs.  Oh - I have started cooking some of the spaghetti squash I harvested in August.  Yummy!  Yesterday was baked ss with veggies and cheesy sauce, with more cheese.  Tomorrow will be chicken chow mein with ss instead of noodles.  I can't wait!