Cold start to summer

It's hard to believe that the year is already half over. Where has 2008 gone to? Here we are, the second day in July already. The garden looks like it's still in the first week of May, poor little plants are so small and pitiful looking, I swear they have not grown any at all since we planted them. And trying to get outside to do things -- it's just been too cold. My nephew cut the back lawn for us for the first time yesterday. Should have been needed to be cut long ago, but things just don't seem to be warm enough for stuff to grow this summer. My mom's nasturtium plants are all tiny things, where they should be overflowing the sides of the half barrels they are all planted in.