Lifestyle

Hello readers and friends of the Mountaineer Echo, I hope this week finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. This week has been a rough week. I had to have minor surgery and it ended up going worse that I thought.

August is knocking on our front door and August is a great time to plant some grass seed. Here are some favorites for you to consider if you are going to plant some grass. Bermuda grass, Centipede grass, St. Augustine grass, tall Fescue and Zoysia grass are the most popular choices for Arkansas, with Bermuda grass being the most used turfgrass.

Have a Heart would like to introduce you to Peanut! He is an eight-week-old male Siberian Husky mix who currently weighs 8.1 pounds. Mama was a Husky mix and Daddy was a traveling man so we cannot be certain of the other breed.

A few weeks ago I wrote about setting deadfalls to control small predators from weasels to raccoons. Deadfalls sets are illegal and in this time of over-populations of the egg eaters that keep quail numbers low and impact wild turkey numbers, they should be put in use.

Mountain View — The Ozark Folk Center State Park is hosting a “Handcrafted Evening in the Park” on Friday, July 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

They flit across your face, hover near your houseplants, or gather by the window. Fortunately, these fungus gnat insects are more annoying to us than harmful to our plants.

Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium consists of a 1.5-million-gallon Aquarium Adventure showcasing 35,000 live fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds, and immersive Wildlife Galleries that bring visitors eye-to-eye with the greatest collection of record-setting game animals ever assembled.

The Bold Jumping Spider is the most common spider in Arkansas. It is small in size, black with orange to white spots on its body, their pincer-like claws are a metallic green color, and their bite creates a mild stinging sensation.