Sorry Northerner, I have to disagree with you.
One of the great "joys" of gardening is remembering the adversities that you have coped with and still managed to produce an edible crop.
If all were sweetness and light, warm/hot days with sun/rain in the right quantites (and at the right times) during the summer with short sharp frosty spells in the winter to kill of the bad bugs, it would leave us with no excuses when crops are not as seen in the seed catalogues or on the supermarket shelves.
So be grateful and rejoice in adversity! ;)
Phil