Cleaning Weekend

What a long weekend. We spent two days cleaning. Saturday, Chris helped me clean the whole upstairs. What a relief to have that done and with help. Sunday we spent the afternoon outside cleaning the garage and getting it reorganized. I can now park my vehicle inside! A couple of weeks ago while Chris was out riding the four wheeler, he noticed we had two musk thistle plants out in the field.



So, yesterday he went back out to cut them down. Instead he found hundreds of plants. Musk thistle is a noxious weed in Kansas and can easily take over a field. Plus they are hard to get rid of, they lay dormant for years. And it is actually illegal to have them in Kansas. A friend of ours has some land north of Minneapolis and he has been fighting these things for three years now. But of course we have seen them all over this area recently in the fields and along the roads. We spent a couple hours out cutting the heads off and pulling the plant out of the ground or spraying it with weed killer. I don't know if we are doing any good but I'd rather do something than nothing. We didn't get them all yet but we made huge progress. Once we get the heads all picked we are going to mow that field. We mowed it last year but we haven't mowed it at all this year yet. So hopefully that will help also.

That was our fun filled weekend. Hope everyone else had a good one. Happy Birthday to Grandpa Tom last Friday. Happy Birthday to Aunt Linda tomorrow, Emily on Friday and Ella on Saturday!

Love, Amy