August weather

From stifling heat and humidity on Friday and Saturday to a refreshingly cool Monday morning with scattered thunderstorms throughout, it was a typical August weekend on the NCR.   We got nearly an inch of rain on Friday night, but it didn't break the humidity and made working in the garden like an extended day in a sauna.  I continued to transplant lettuce and made seedings of spinach and fall beets.  The flea beetles continue to attack the crucifers despite my best efforts to dislodge them and cabbage moths abound.  My electric fence is keeping the raccoons out of the corn patch so far, but we'll see if the little desperados suck it up for the corn, which is delicious, by the way.  Still waiting for tomatoes, but everything else is in.