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Even if possums aren’t the cutest creatures in the forest, they should be a welcome addition to your backyard. Unlike other mammals that carry ticks, and therefore spread Lyme Disease, possums gobble up 90 percent of the ticks that attach to them. According to the National Wildlife Federation, a single possum consumes 5000 of the parasites per tick season.

Ocelot\’s can be found in Southern Texas and every country south of the U.S. except Chile.

Let your light shine.

If you want to attract a flicker to your backyard keep a fresh birdbath, don\’t kill the ants in the yard and lay out apples, peanut butter, or raisins

May the Force Be With You

Ye who laughs last laughs best.

Flickers love to eat ants. These are woodpeckers.

Squirrels don\’t hibernate in winter, but tend to remain in their nests or dens when temperatures fall below 30 degrees Fahrenheit or when weather turns windy or stormy.

\”I\’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

Let your Light Shine!!

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation–
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold( of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm27:1

And. Cats love hugs and lap time!

Anya, sorry for being such a pest, but I see that Pete is also missing. I love the photo, but I sure wish our members would quit going to the RB. We have a larger Patrol there than we do here. Hugs, Coop

1/23: TABBIES WERE NAMED AFTER A BAGHDAD SILK
Tabby cats got their name by being compared to silk from the \”Attabiy\” district in Baghdad, and the 14th century Middle French term for it was \”atabis,\” which then became \”tabis,\” and eventually our English word, \”tabby.\”

1/23 – SOMETIMES SNOWBALLS FORM
THEMSELVES.
Something strange happened earlier
this year in northwest Siberia:
Mysterious, giant snowballs began
washing up on a beach along the Gulf of
Ob. It turns out the ice orbs were
formed naturally by the rolling motions
of wind and water. With some spheres
reaching nearly 3 feet in width, you
wouldn\’t want to use this frozen
ammunition in a snowball fight..

1/23- The laetiporus mushroom tastes like chicken. My folks usually have some every year, but never share with me.

1/23 The reason why we hate the recorded sound of our voice is because our skull changes the resonance of our voice from within and creates more bass. When we hear a digital recording of our voice, although slightly unfamiliar to ourselves, it’s exactly how other people hear it

The Poinsettia is name after Joel Robert\’s Poinsett who introduced this plant touS in 1826. from Mexico
He was the first Ambassador to Mexico!

Pete!! Chessie love her go box!! She asked me to thank you! Snd she is thinking about accepting your invitation!! I’ll keep you posted!! We just might have a real turn around with her erratic behavior!

1/23 Bats save us billions of dollars a year.
Bats tend to get a bad rap. The truth is, they gobble up lots of troublesome insects. In fact, they\’re so good at keeping pests away from our food crops that they save U.S. farmers alone at least $3.7 billion on pesticides every year. So bats are actually a significant factor in our agricultural economy.

Hibernation is a way animals conserve energy to survive adverse weather conditions or lack of food. It involves physiological changes such as a drop in body temperature and slowed metabolism.

From Psalm 119: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path

While a group of cats is a clowder, a group of kittens is a kindle

Factoid 1/23: If you were to pick up a yellow-spotted millipede, it would likely curl into a spiral and exude hydrogen cyanide on you, accompanied by the strong scent of toasted almonds. Cyanide millipedes use chemical warfare to ward off predators. They also make critical nutrients available in forest ecosystems.

1/23
While humans have just three ear muscles, horses have 10.

Jan 22-Around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones, due to regularly falling out of trees.

Mature Sunflowers Face East

#3 Sometims in life, you just need a hug..
No words,
No advise,
Just a hug to make you feel better

A meowsy big Concats @catp

Night, Pete. So nice, as always, to share some time by the fire with you. I\’m heading out now. See you, hopefully on Tuesday! Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and stay safe and warm, dear friend!

Our tasty friend, the scallop! We love their meat and their shells! Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves which are found in all of the world’s oceans, although never in fresh water. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily “free-living”, with many species capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others attach themselves to stationary or rooted objects such as sea grass at some point in their lives. The majority of species live recumbent on sandy substrates, and when they sense the presence of a predator such as a starfish, they may attempt to escape by swimming swiftly but erratically through the water using jet propulsion created by repeatedly clapping their shells together. Scallops have a well-developed nervous system, and unlike most other bivalves, all scallops have a ring of numerous simple eyes situated around the edge of their mantles.