What is going on this year? According to Weather.com, the overnight low was 33 degrees — my thermometer tells me it was 30.3 in my backyard — and its now up to a whopping 44 windy, grey, rainy, horrible degrees out there.

I realize that rain is good, and that we live in a desert, but I’m tired of being cold! I want to plant my peppers and eggplants. I want to build my new tomato trellis. I want to be warm and enjoy my backyard and invite people over for fun barbecues … I’m sure it has to get wam sometime, right? Summer has to come sooner or later, right? Right?