We've had one of the coolest summers on record in San Diego this year. We had about one week of temperatures in the low 90's and upper 80's and not much else. The marine layer has been dominant most of the summer, so we've had clouds most mornings and even had some San Francisco style fog yesterday morning.
The tomatoes have struggled all summer. They've done their best and they still taste better than the ones you can buy in the stores, but the sugars haven't developed as well as they could have with a little more heat.
The cool weather has meant that we can get more things done in the mornings than we could if the weather was it in the high 90's. This morning we moved the square-foot garden boxes with the carrots out of the space where one of the new rain barrels will be. Then Cindy used the reciprocating saw to cut down one of the boxwood hedge plants to give us better access to that barrel. Then we went to Home Depot to buy more 6 x 8 x 15 cinder blocks to build the pad for that barrel to sit on. Last week Cindy built the pad for the two barrels that will go out behind the garage. The barrels will be installed next week.
When we came up to the cashier at HD (the same one we've checked out with about five times this week), she started laughing and said, "Aren't you done with your project YET?"
Well, no, not yet, but someday.... maybe.... we hope....
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