Now there's a man after my own heart! You sound just like me Sqwib, always too busy working in the yard to run the smoker. Story of my life. Nothing good comes easy so if you want the nice yards you put in the work. Yours looks great, you've done an excellent job there. Im the same as you, always planting something,moving electric and water lines, working on the patio,
setting up lighting, or deciding which decorations should go where. My veggy garden is very small, verrrry small, but I love planting landscape beds. I'm in Buffalo NY so we're just getting started here for the season, been to the nurseries a lot lately. I love it.
This was two years ago before I put in the new beds.
The island and the bed on the right were new last year. Island purposely doesn't have much in it so that the neighborhood cats can't hide in the flowers and ambush the birds at the feeder. Lost a far amount of stuff in the bed by the garage over the winter so I just planted some coreopsis and primrose in there the other day. This weekend we're going to our favorite nursery to pick some more replacement plants and get a few more goodies for this years planters. I have a few things already but I definitely need more. I love my container plantings.
I like your sun on the fence, I have something very similar.
This is my view when I actually have time to sit down. My favorite thing is to sit in this chair and watch the birds. The sweet smell of BBQ in the air only makes it better.
PS: Being in Buffalo these are obviously last years pictures. Not much color back there yet this year. Couple things in bloom but not much.