All the constant August rain has been my fault.  At the beginning of the month we started work on painting the garage doors, a job that I thought would take a couple of days.  One month later we finally finished!  Having been unable to do anything due to the rain it took so much longer and looking a bit of a state in between.  Each time I thought about working on it, it rained.  Each time I did work on it, it rained.    Even today it managed a couple of spots of rain in an otherwise fine day as soon as I opened the paint tin.