Yes my partner has been gardening now for a week with his bug outfit on. The weather (though rainy the last few days) is generally glorious in the summer. What I love is that it can be hot hot but except for a few days every summer when it is muggy...the temperature drops to a nice cool sleeping temp at night. We have black flies a few weeks but really only in the woods. We have a summer place out of town where the gardens are but here closer to town, along the St. John river - you hardly see a black fly. It is good to have access to a place you can go that is truly quiet, that has skies open to a million stars at night and where there isn't a chain hotel, restaurant or big box store lurking around the corner. I have to laugh a week or so ago we had some great weather and I said this is just like Jamaica!