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I’m kind of a purist when it comes to venison, and my cholesterol is high, so I don’t add any fat. Kill 4-5 deer/year and it’s my primary source of red meat. One great way to cook is stir fry where meat is “velveted” which is what most Chinese restaurants do to tenderize the meat. Here is the recipe i use. Hank Shaw Venison Stirfry

I’m eating a venison soup now with root vegetables and beans peas etc, with jalepeno cornbread and it couldn’t be any better. If you ever want to try pure deer burgers, right before you grill, add an egg, olive oil, Worcester, cajun power, spicy mustard or any other liquid marinade, and dry seasonings. Oil the grill, pat burgers which will be pretty delicate, gently place them on grill. After they get a little char they firm up and can be turned, my friends and family rave about them.

If you have an after-tax investment account, you should definitely transfer $8k per year from there to a Roth.

Whether to convert traditional IRA rollover to Roth is a more complicated question, but based on what you outlined, I wouldn’t transfer.

Whether you like him or not, this is exactly my view on The Athletic, which I’ve had since 2022.

Moscona on 2/2/26:

“Everything that I look at with The Athletic moving forward now, I will look at with great caution after something like this. Because 2 reporters and at least one editor let that pile of crap go thru without making one simple phone call that could have answered the question and that could have prevented all of this, from Friday to Monday. You want to report and btw something else we told you, there were more than a dozen schools that got these notices from the CSC, why did they pick LSU, it was the biggest brand…… it was gonna get the most headlines, it was gonna get the most clicks. And that’s the unfortunate part, because that’s not the job.”

But I damn sure won’t pay for clickbait.

I subscribed to them early on, then in 2022ish, they became a woke arse rag and I quit. Their latest stunt misreporting and misrepresenting the CSC’s investigation into a player at LSU furthers their pattern. They misrepresented via their social media post containing their article, which was headlined by a photo of an LSU Football helmet when zero of the investigation involved the football program. They sacrificed the truth for clicks. This is tantamount to what much of the legacy media does in politics today.

So why are they like they are, which is piss poor IMO? Just look who owns them; The NY Times and that likely explains a lot of it.

I just opened a Fidelity UGMA/UTMA custodial account for my 3 yo granddaughter in my daughter’s name, connected to her account. I don’t have much concern about my gd getting control too early, at 18/21. Her mom will manage that.

One reason I did this is so other family members can contribute to the account if they wish, for bdays, Christmas etc instead of, or in addition to buying more shite that she doesn’t need.

Some may say this is heresy, but I make a roux with whole wheat flour in a cast iron skillet with no oil. The oil adds no flavor and whatever I’m making the roux for always has plenty of fat. The whole wheat has the germ in it and it contains oil, and it gets a toasted aroma and taste that’s unique and very good. It doesn’t get as dark as a roux with oil, but when it’s added to the Trinity, meat, or liquid, it darkens nicely. Handed down from my mother.

Recapture tax is also a consideration. It’s basically this, unless something has changed in the last 10 years: once you sell a rental property, and if you don’t roll over proceeds into another rental property (or possibly an investment property of like kind), you owe 20% of the total depreciation amount in federal taxes. This can be a large number obviously.

Ole Piss is melting into concentrated urine.

Hope they sign a more experienced guy for our QB1, but obviously he can compete.

I caught my first bass in my great grandfathers pond on a black and yellow HH spinner bait in 1969. I just received my order today from HH of some 1/8 oz glow in the dark tandem rigs for my dock at night on Bayou Terrebonne.

I like her. I also don’t know why Grace Knox didn’t play the second half that I noticed.

I skin a bunch of deer and I don’t split the sternum. I just let the guts fall enough to get the tenderloins out. Cut the front quarters off, backstraps and hind quarters, and occasionally the neck.

If you’ve got some data to back that up, it will be the first I’ve seen. So please share.

I bought 400 acres in Amite County in 2008 when I was 47. Moved residency from La to Ms in 2013, retired in 2017 and lived there since, with a camp on bayou Terrebonne. I harvested several hundred thousand $ worth of timber and formed an LLC which owns the land, so all farm expenses are deductible. And there are no state income taxes on 401k and IRA’s. One of the lowest property tax counties in the state. That’s not the case with surrounding counties, Pike, Franklin and Wilkinson. Politics aren’t in good shape in those counties.

Land value has appreciated 40-45% since 2008, maybe more. And the best of all is the recreational value. I built a 5 acre pond in 2014 (largest so far 13 lb 4oz bass), kids catch plenty of fish, manage intensely for deer, turkey and other wildlife, grow gardens, fruit tree orchards, and forage for natural bounty like chanterelle mushrooms, dew berries, blackberries, paw paw’s and more. Have 2 creeks to swim, fish, hunt in too. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Buy quality recreational land because the supply is diminishing. PS - just like anywhere else, neighbors matter.