Notes From the Yard

Here's some pictures of plants in our backyard that I took today. We spent a lot of time this weekend cleaning up the flower beds and pulling weeds. I really like that the last owners put in things that will come back each year. It's kind of fun watching everything come up. We're still not sure what everything is yet. We have been waiting to pull weeds because we're not sure what things are weeds and what things are flowers! It's becoming more clear as time goes on, and we went and bought some roundup for the weeds.

These are my favorites so far. We had purple ones too, but those froze when it snowed a few weeks back.
These are in a flower bed right underneath our bedroom window.

This is the ground cover growing around our deck. Very pretty! We have some white ones too, but the flowers are not doing as well on that one.

I like this one too. I did not cut it back, but I'm going to later this year and get a bigger thing for it to climb up.

Kirk also had to lay down ant and grub poison this weekend- our yard was a huge ant bed. That was not fun, because we had to keep Sarah out of the yard until the poison was dissolved and the grass was totally dry. We also had to chase off robins to keep them from eating the grub things that would come up to the surface. Ew.

Cheese is MISSING!

Cheese the bird (featured in the picture with Cathy) was stolen from the zoo last night, along with his brother, Mac! Poor birds!

Wichita Welcomes Kelly!

Kirk's sister Kelly came to visit for the weekend on her way home from Nebraska. We had a good time going to The Alley for bowling and to the Sedgwick County Zoo!

Kelly, Jeremy (our house mate) and Cathy in the Kansas wind at the zoo.

Cathy made a new friend in the rain forest area of the zoo.

Patio Table!

Now that yard sale season has started, Cathy has been looking for assorted house and garden items. Here's her latest yard sale find:


Special thanks to Jeremy, for loaning Cathy twenty dollars (as she had no cash on her at the time she happened to see the table) and bringing it home in his jeep!

Happy Birthday Kirk!

Yesterday was Kirk's 26th birthday- Happy Birthday Kirk! We celebrated by eating at Sumo Japanese Hibachi and Sushi House. It was very good, and this is written by Cathy, who is not a huge fan of Japanese food. Even the fried rice was extra yummy. It was really fun watching the chef do all the tricks with the cooking tools, and cracking the egg by throwing it into the air and chopping it. We would recommend going sometime, although you should make reservations, even though the guy on the phone said that there was no wait and no reservation required.

We came home to have the cherry strudels Kirk had requested, but we were so stuffed full that we could not eat them. :) We will have those today, along with playing the "new" (one of Cathy's amazing thrift store finds) Trivial Pursuit game that Kirk received as a gift.

Cathy's New Hair

Cathy decided to drastically change her look! Drastically for her, anyway. She cut her long hair short and got blonde highlights. After calling around for prices, she decided to get it done at a local beauty college- looking fabulous can be expensive!

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Welcome!

Welcome to Planet Z, the exclusive blog exclusively about Kirk and Cathy! The travel blog was so popular, we have had requests to start a general daily blog about our lives. Since most of our friends and family live so far away, we have decided to start one. We will hopefully update it once a week or more, but we will see how it goes.