I didn't work in the garden today. The earth is soaked through and through. You can't step on the soil without hearing it squish. The newly planted spinach seedlings are looking happy. No sign from the newly seeded arugula or winter squash. Perhaps later next week.

Now that the rain is over, I really have to attend to my Meyer Lemon tree. I fed it, I sprayed it for scale and aphids, but it is still looking really sad. I will have to see what else I can do for scale.

If you're wondering, scale looks like a shiny overlay on the wrinkled up, curled up leaf. Not good.