Your photos are brilliant, bright, colorful, beautiful, inviting.
YES!

But come on up those stairs and sit a spell with me. There is something very friendly about a visit on someone's front porch.

yes yes yes

I find training the humans to insist that she stay off, and to use "off" and "sit" as commands, to be more difficult than it has been to train Hazel!

I've chosen to say nothing about my garden this year. I did mention rabbits and groundhogs.
Gettting ready to set fire to the whole thing...
My compliance with the "No raking, no burning" mandate has led to a complete takeover of pasture grass and invasive nonnative plants. The chiggers and ticks thwarted my efforts...

Oops, that was more than I ever intended to say.

This is why I've gone from dreading winter to love it:

When the outside garden goes to sleep, I am grateful that I will have some time off from enslavement to plant care.