We’ve had a very cool summer here in Northern California. For the most part, it’s been in the 60s and (occasionally) 70s during the day, with the temperatures dropping down to the 50s at night. This is highly unusual. David absolutely hates it.

While it means we’ve rarely been overheated the last few months, we have had to bundle up every morning cause I refuse to turn on the heat (hello, it’s August!) and our garden is lush green, green, green…

with lots of stems, leaves, and flowers, but no harvest to speak of!

We’ve had 6 cherry tomatoes, all of which Miss Leyba has eaten, and ZERO of the other two types of tomatoes we planted. (They’re there, they’re maybe growing, but they’re not ripening.)

One strawberry consumed by, you guessed it, Miss Leyba.

One zucchini with more on the way.

And lots of cilantro (though it’s going to seed as I type this).

Usually we’d start planting our fall crop now, but instead we have no choice but to wait it out and hope for warmer weather to increase our crop. I tell you, our plants are teasing us right now!

So instead of ripping out our summer garden to plant those fall veggies, we decided to (once again) turn some of our lawn into a veggie bed.

More on that tomorrow…

Miss Leyba loves when we visit the ultimate playground in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

At one year old:

At two and a half years old:

Same park.

Same good old fun.

Lesson learned: Don’t forget to clean off your camera card before doing a post. Some of the best photos from the visit were on there. Enjoy.

Hey, Miss Leyba, what’s inside the cabbage?!

Look, it’s a wee little frog!

I love surprises like this out in the garden.

And, yes, these are the same cabbages that we planted back in November… they are finally ready to eat and enjoy!

Updated to add: Miss Leyba’s reaction? “Get it out! Tell it to go away from our cabbage!” Sigh.

You may remember the last time Miss Leyba saw David’s brother Lee:

VIDEO: Playing the drums with Uncle Lee from Carrie on Vimeo.

That was a year and a half ago! Amazing how time flies.

It may be hard to believe, but I think you can safely say that Miss Leyba had even more fun this time with Lee and his girlfriend Kristen who visited us from Colorado this week.

We all had a super fun time!

Look closely…

The bear has googly eyes!

(idea courtesy of Miss Leyba (!!!), executed by us working together)

Too busy to blog.

Too busy to email or internet.

Too busy to nap.

Too busy to take photos of half of the things we’ve been up to: play dates, nights out with the girls, dinner parties, beach trips, farmer’s markets, visits with friends, birthday celebrations, and the simple daily pleasures of gardening, cooking, reading, and walking on the trail each night after dinner.

Here’s a sampling of special moments from the past few weeks that I did manage to document:

Life is so good right now.