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HB’s Homestyle Cooking

We always seem to gravitate toward Asian food when I have vegetables in the fridge that need using and this Beef Stir-Fry is always a hit. I always seem to have small amounts of veggies in the fridge that just didn’t get used up. Instead of throwing them to the chickens I try to use up as much as I can for our meals and of course the chickens get the scraps and the leftovers at the end of the week. This, fried rice, and hobo packs are some of my favorite ways to use up odds and ends of things in the refrigerator. You can customize it to what you have on hand or what your family prefers, and it always ends up being way more than you think.
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Growing Up Flippin

By Cindy Wood Young This week has found me reminiscing about some of my babysitting jobs of days long ago. I’ve previously written in this space about my first full-time summer job, when I was 12 or 13 and I babysat two kids.
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BH Installs Safe Haven Baby Box

– Baxter Health has recently announced that they have installed a Safe Haven Baby Box at the East Entrance of their hospital building. Baxter Health partnered with Knights of Columbus and the 2022 Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class to bring the Safe Haven Baby Box to the community.
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Fleet Meeting scheduled

The Fleet Reserve Association Branch 251 meeting is set for Saturday, April 15, 2023, at American Legion Post 52, 717 Market Street, Mountain Home. Bring your bag/box lunch for Noon Social at the Post Auxiliary Room.
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Growing Up Flippin

Whippoorwills, Cookies, and Other Memories In this space I’ve written a couple of times about my Great Uncle Burton and Great Aunt Willa (Wood) McCracken. To me, they were Aunt Willie and Uncle Burt.
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Crooked Creek

What is a watershed and why should you care? Because of the health of watersheds and flooding, water quality is inseparable. A watershed has been likened to a giant bathtub, a bowl, a funnel, and a network of veins running through the human body.
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LIGHTNIN’ RIDGE

I hunted wild gobblers for 50 years… but no more. The first hunt I went on was in the Ouachita Mountains in 1970 at a place called Muddy Creek WMA with an Arkansas Fish and Game biologist by the name of Gene Rush.
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Starting and Up-Potting Seeds

So, last week we talked about starting and up potting seeds. This week we will talk about getting those seedlings ready to go out in the garden. Once they start growing their true leaves and getting bigger you will want to have some air circulating and moving your starts like the wind moves plants outside. This will make your plants stems sturdier and much hardier so they will better adjust to the outside conditions.
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