Drôle D'Eté

Weird summer. That's what we're having. Eastern Europe is sweltering under record heat and Britain is drowning in torrential rains and floods. Most of France is stuck in the middle with cool temperatures and more rain than we've had in recent memory.

The back yard furniture is not getting much use this year, but we have been out there a few times.

Our vegetable garden is pretty pathetic this year. I picked four, count 'em, four green beans yesterday. The weeds are doing well. Some days it's nice enough to be outside, others it isn't. The grass is growing like crazy but it's often too wet to cut.

Oh well. We're lucky not to have tornadoes, floods, wilting heat with high humidity, or several feet of snow. It's just a not a banner year.