Lifestyle

Our weekly NCA Wildlife this week is about opossums. We see lots of opossums in the country life and along the roadside squished by vehicles.

The New Year is filled with resolutions that usually involve dieting and exercise. Gardening is a great way to help accomplish these two resolutions, while also improving your mood, reducing blood pressure, maintaining flexibility, burning calories and much more.

I wonder sometimes if common sense in our nation a thing of the past is. At a meeting of outdoor writers some greatly admired turkey hunter who worked for the Forest Products Institute told them all that today there are more trees growing in America today than ever before.

As a tribal member of the Quapaw five hundred years ago would have probably found the women by the river under a tree talking about the crops of corn, squash and beans, or the three sisters, and pottery, the men were probably out hunting deer or buffalo. Artist Betty Gaedtke is doing what she can as a one-quarter Quapaw, to rebuild what has been called a dying nation, having lost 80% to smallpox. She has said that her mother was a half-blood and noted the full bloods of the tribe have died. Her mother, now recently gone, was the daughter of the oldest pure blood and her mom was the eldest living half blood.

Hello everyone, this will be the last section of recipes of the Year. So, I will tell you how I am going to spend my New Year’s Day. First off, I am very thankful that I have made it through this year. I am very blessed with my family, friends, job and other activities. I hope this day finds each one of you are healthy, happy and ready to start a New Year. I grew up with a tradition that my parents would boil their money that they had on them this New Year’s Day for my dad believed that it would make him prosper in the New Year. I don’t know if it did or not, I haven’t practiced this in the last several years, I didn’t see that it made a difference in my life, but now that I am telling you this maybe I should and will start doing this again, seems the older generation was very smart. Maybe we need to get back to doing some of the things our family did in the past. So on to the next chapter, Happy New Year and as always REMEMBER THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE!

Raccoons Have High IQ Levels. When considering the mammal intelligence scale, raccoons rank closer to humans than most people would normally think. In general, monkeys are ranked right below humans and great apes, and with raccoons scoring average IQ levels below monkeys, they are considerably close to human IQ levels as well. In addition to their high IQ scores, raccoons are known to have evolving intelligence and methods of thinking. They can learn from past experiences and engage in critical and problem-solving thinking when obstacles arise. Moreover, because of their notable intelligence, raccoons were once candidates for lab testing alongside rats and monkeys but were discarded for being too smart, adaptive and strong-willed. Raccoons can make

Pot them up, give them a chill and enjoy spring flowering bulbs indoors or outside on a patio, deck or porch. This is a great way to enjoy any bulbs that did not make it into the ground this season or take advantage of late season discounts on bulbs.