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The heat wave has passed and now we have our old comfortable friend the fog back again – drizzly mornings that keep temperatures in the cool 50s and 60s — the type of weather that makes this such a good climate for growing lettuces, greens, and strawberries. 
The two decent sized storms that we have had this rainy season have been enough to bring up the grass on the open portion of our property. A huge high pressure zone remains parked over most of California, deflecting all of the storm systems to the North—there is no forecasted rain in the foreseeable future.
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One of the consequences of a prolonged, wet winter is that our cover crops can get out of hand. Because the soils are too wet to drive the tractor on, we simply have to wait while the cover crops get taller and taller before things are dry enough for us to mow them down.