Summer? Pffft. We never even got a spring.
June in SW WA was reportedly the second wettest June EVAR.
Since the first day of summer, it's been cloudy, overcast, damp, drizzly, and chilly, just about every day.
My garden is a pile of shit this year and I'm none too pleased about it.
Not to mention, the odd weather has, for unknown reasons, increased the number of %$#@! critters around my place. The deer have been here pretty much daily, eating my 30+ rose bushes down to sticks (in the years prior to this, deer had foraged my yard precisely three times). The rabbits and rabbitettes have consumed all my hostas. The coyotes have grabbed seven of my hens. The moles have turned my raised beds and my lawn into a freakin' moonscape. And the chipmunks (which were something of a rarity around here) have had an astounding population explosion - I've caught five and killed another six. Finally, gray squirrels have arrived. Never saw them in this neck of the woods before.
Fuckers!
Oddly enough, the snakes and voles seem to have disappeared completely. Weerie.