Yeah - We pressure the shit out of them. Every cousin, customer, and some sworn enemies have skull mounts to prove it.
Even have ewes ground up for dog food. (Poor dogs).
Can't control them - only keep them tamped down. There's some rugged county on this property and they THRIVE in it - won't budge.
We can usually keep them off the feeders during hunting season but they're never far off. Honestly more of a pest than the hogs at this point.
I can smell that picture from 600 miles away.
Not always......some years especially when weather has been extreme either way, I've seen early drops.
Probably could been have phrased better - Any indication of an early drop is better question.
Heard from a client that has a weekend place in Caldwell that he's got some trees full and some trees already falling - pigs were his clue. Curious if that pattern is showing up to the west.
Based on my observations / experiences, a lot of the inflation I've seen is protective in theory at the quotation level, but becomes very sticky once a PO is cut.
It doesn't take getting burned too many times before I throw on some lagniappe into your price with the idea that it'll cover me if I get whipsawed. The fact that 10-20% of that price was lagniappe is easy to forget when the PO comes in and I don't go back and true-up based on factual pricing.
Holy shit, I can't believe they bought this.........instead of .........Hey, that price has some fluff in it I can trim out now.
That's the nature of a true inflationary spiral. Getting cash out of your hands as quickly as possible and converted into something that'll be inflationary - regardless of the actual underlying input costs.
The only people seeing pushback are the ones facing the end user who's asking WTF. Everyone else just takes an increase, tacks on a few points for themselves, and passes it through for someone else to pay. Last man standing in the commerce flow has to explain it to the end user.
100% - In my industry, many have moved from reactionary price increases to anticipatory price increases and they'll continue as long as the market will tolerate it.
Increases began as targeted and specific pricing moves. These days, it appears someone wakes up one day and says fuck it, let's go up 15% and see if anyone blinks.
For those $400-$500 shotgun/boat paddle combos - Don't overlook the Turks.
Mfgs. like Tristar and Impala make some nicely functional semis that won't break the bank or your heart if you fall asleep before cleaning them or need to use them as a push pole.
You don't get a tax deduction on realized losses in an IRA....and you don't have capital gains taxes on realized gains. You pay income tax on whatever comes out (plus a penalty unless it is a conversion or otherwise allowed distribution). There is no wash sale rule since there is no capital loss deduction.
Well, if you believe that over any considerable, long term period of time your investment assets will increase in value (if they don't it's Thunderdome anyway IMO) then yes, strategically converting to a Roth during a declining market will allow you to pay lower taxes on what otherwise would have been a larger conversion.
You run the risk of being out of the market during potential up-day pops while the transfer is taking place, but in general, your situation would allow you to convert and reinvest in the same assets while paying a 15% lower tax bill than you would have otherwise.
Some people do conversions up to the next marginal bracket if they think that's about as low as their income tax will ever go.
For instance.....if you are MFJ and have taxable income above $83.5k but less than $178k, you can convert up to that 178k threshold if you have doubts you'll see marginal rates remain at or below 22% in the decades to come.
Bear in mind that you have to have the cash on hand to pay the taxes on what's converted in a given year and the conversion amount is locked up for 5 years without the more liberal standard Roth withdrawal rules.
Basically you are pre-paying the tax today to have income flexibility down the road and locking in a tax rate now at a known rate that might increase in the future.
You limit or eliminate RMDs down the road so you have a lot of tax planning flexibility when you hit retirement age and start drawing SS.
Some of the benefits to heirs has been muted by recent legislation, but there are still some benefits.
Some dogs seems to always go back and touch that hot stove over and over.....just like people I guess.
What's the dog lingo equivalent of "Hold my beer; y'all watch this."
Most only need one encounter with a badger, porcupine, or rattlebug.
In Texas - Sounds like you'll be teal hunting right? If so, no more sporting and classic shotgun to use than a 20ga o/u.
Third shot is always a waste on teal anyway, unless the 1st is a skillet shot. Take the browning to the blind inside a good soft-sided case and enjoy the hunting. Then take it home and completely strip/clean it. Don't worry as much about the gun you take as you do about the mosquitos and gators.
Or, go to the pawn shop and get a used Rem. 870 in 20 or 12.
Have fun either way.
Hour and a half from Austin to Castroville / Hondo.
Call an outfitter down there and get set up on an afternoon hunt and then a morning hunt the next day....spend the night in CV or Hondo.
Get 2 hunts in over 24 hours. Leave noon on a Friday / Saturday and be home by 2:00 on Saturday / Sunday.
Steve Wilson is a big outfitter down there who runs day hunts. Also many others.
What used to be Hotel Alsace in CV is decent...plus you have the usual "Express" hotels along that route.
I used to fly into to ABIA (back when they had power) and do that 24 hour turnaround deal with buddies from college.
Great way to spend a weekend with your kid.
Tanks fer nuttin...... Your question and my own answer now have me down a rabbit hole looking at stock and chassis options for building a guest gun (excuse for wife)....which of course I'd want to use. Bell and Carlson or chassis? Chassis with brace? Folder or extendable? Pistol grip or straight? LPVO or FP?
This could get complicated.
That was true in the past and remains so to the best of my knowledge.
It took me a while to grasp that alcoholism is a family disease. Everyone is afflicted; even those that don't drink. Our spouses, kids, family, and friends have to adjust to a new normal and I for one didn't get that. I pretended that my disease existed in a vacuum and no one was affected. That's not true. It takes time and just like us, our loved ones have good days and bad, stub their toe, say stupid shit, and get overcome with fear and uncertainty. I was told to be gentle with not only myself, but with others. Take that for what it's worth.
I think about the early AAs who were lucky if they had one meeting a week, or the guys who were doing this before the book was written and it was all in the passing of an experience from one drunk to the next. Sandy Beach talks about how they did it and it always makes me laugh (and remember that recovery isn't just hiding in a fellowship). SB says they'd look forward to the meeting all week, but mainly they talked one on one and just prayed like hell all day.
Exactly - Nothing more complicated than that. If he's doing the real deal, he'll be ecstatic that you reached out. That phone is really heavy when you start, but once you exercise that muscle it becomes lighter. Makes my day when an new guy calls.