What happened to summer?

Oh, I know... 15 credits in 8 weeks is what happened to summer. And lots of music on the weekends and a micro-vacation to the coast. During all of this, the garden was barely touched after the tour, leaving the bind weed to run amok. We did get (and are still getting) a nice batch of veggies, which was mightily enhanced thanks to Reemay (floating crop cover). I'm putting out fall/winter crops in these waning summer days with high hopes. Today I spotted broccoli forming along with aphids and cabbage worms. It's really awful what insecticidal soap does to cabbage worms. They writhe in agony and for a moment I feel terrible but then get over it. One does not grow crops for worms no matter their fetching green coloration.
So, to chores in the garden... transplant a lavender, weed, plant a small Yak Rhododendron, a Mahonia, 5 Cotoneaster horizontalis, a Philadelphus and a few others, install a sweet, silly copper fountain, augment/add to a section of the drip system (something one is never done with), move a Philadelphus 'Aurea' to a shadier spot, pick plums (this means making jam), weed, deadhead the Euphorbia (lots and lots of Euphorbia ~ let me know if you want some), thin the Epimedium and pot it up, same with Shasta Daisy, Bearded Iris and Ajuga, did I say weed? Assemble the new push mower, if G doesn't get to it first. And weed some more...