i complained about the cold all winter....

so i really should be talking more about the wonderful weather we're having this summer! wow has it been gorgeous! last weekend and the beginning of this week were hot, hot, hot, and humid to boot. the pool got into the 80s, so swimming as been absolutely heavenly. we can stay in all day at that temperature (and the girls do!). then on wednesday some storms came through and the weather was a bit cooler behind that (low 70s and thursday morning, with low humidity). that felt just fantastic! the cool seemed to kill some of the mosquitoes, so we went for a hike around oven's mouth early thursday morning. it was just perfect! betsy and the kids came with us. the blackberries there aren't ripe yet, but they will be soon, and we were scoping them out. i think us and our friends the mosses are the only ones that go to oven's mouth to pick blackberries, because we always get a lot there. a few more weeks, maybe a month at the most, and we'll be making some blackberry pie or blackberry jam. mmmm!

today was warmer, low 80s, but the humidity was still low and it was amazing. i know i'm going into too much detail about the weather now, but i plan to re-read this in january or february, and re-live the warm sun and delicious breeze, so forgive my indulgence.

also, while i'm indulging myself, my garden is looking absolutely lush. well, my new beds are. the older beds are looking a little rougher. my potatos aren't flowering yet, which has me slightly alarmed, and my peas, which i didn't trellis, don't seem to be yielding what they did last year. or maybe they're yielding the same, but i planted so many more... next year, or the year after since we plan to be gone, i'll have to put a lot of compost in that bed. i wonder if i can convince our renters to compost too... maybe i'll take some money off the rent if they do!
but anyway, my brussels sprouts look amazing. i should take a photo. my best zucchini plant already has a small zucchini, and the others aren't far behind. i have a few small tomatoes starting up, some tiny tiny cucumbers coming, and the fennel (the ones that aren't bolting from the heat anyway) also look great. no green beans yet, but i'm hopeful!

i love summer!