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  1. 12 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    The other thing we've learned it that it is easy to make great stocks with these things.  Freeze your veggie and meat trimmings, leftover turkey and chicken carcasses, shrimp or crab shells, and the like from when you are doing your normal daily cooking prep.  Once you accumulate a good stash, make stock.  I've been making all my gumbo with homemade stock since we got our first one (we are now on our second one) around five years ago.      

    Agree.  I used the stock from a pork butt that I made for pulled pork and used it as a stock for vegetable soup.  All that I had to do was strain the rendered fat.

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    I have this little pile of bug parts collecting on a window sill. Directly above the pile is the window shade housing and a small hole. I think something is pushing dead bugs or digested/discarted parts through the hole in the window shade housing and they are piling up on the sill below. I keep cleaning them up but they keep coming. This picture has about 3 days worth. I think it might be a spider that’s eating ants or something. We sprayed for ants about two months ago which coincidentally is about when this started happening.

     

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  3. My father was an Air Force C-130 pilot and flew several covert missions in the Congo in the early 1960s. These missions involved dropping local ‘freedom fighter’ types into ‘rebel’ held installations. Very funny story about a whole crew of poorly trained local paratroopers charging out of the back of the C-130 as soon as the cargo doors opened rather than waiting for the jump light to turn green (or however that works) and they all scattered in the wind in the middle of the night over the Congo jungle.

     

  4. My mom's step mother "Mary" passed away last December.  Her dad has been deceased twenty years or more so.  My mom believes that there are heirlooms from her side of the family which "should" go to her.  There is also the question of disposition of the house in Fort Worth ($300,000).  However, "Mary's" living relatives (nieces) have taken over the probate process with Tarrant County.   The nieces are acting a little shady and less than honest - they didn't even notify my mother of Mary's death until five months afterwards.  The conversation that they did have was very cryptic. They pretty much have excluded my mom from all information regarding "Mary's" death and have told her not to ever call them.   My mom is elderly, a little confused, and getting angry.  She had a good life long relationship with her step-mother. Almost all of the furniture in the house belonged to her father.  I told her that I'd do a little fact finding and see how she should proceed.

    I found the applicable Tarrant County probate record on-line. 

    There is a lead attorney retained in Fort Worth.

    The Independent Executor is in Arkansas (where Mary's family is from)

    Under "Public Notice" it states:  Unknown, missing, or incapacitated heir.

    The current probate status is : "Order Extending Time to File Inventory & Appraisement - extended to 9/25/18.

    So I guess the question is - what is the best way to get a copy of my grandma's will?  And what do we do if there was no will?    edit:  there is a copy of the will filed according to the Tarrant filing.

     

    Thank you law hawks.

  5. Bourdain's net worth was $1.2 million which seems surprisingly low to me.  He also included his daughter's nanny in the will.  

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-bourdains-will-reveals-net-worth-of-1-2m/

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    Anthony Bourdain, the late celebrity chef and host of CNN's "Parts Unknown," left most of his $1.2 million estate to his 11-year-old daughter, Ariane, court papers revealed. The TV personality was found dead in his hotel room in June while he was in France working on his series about culinary traditions around the world. Bourdain was 61. Officials said his death was a suicide.

    The New York Daily NewsPage Six and USA Today report that according to Manhattan Surrogate's Court documents filed Thursday, Bourdain's estate includes $425,000 in savings and cash, $35,000 in brokerage money, $250,000 in personal property and $500,000 in "intangible property including royalties and residuals."

    Bourdain reportedly listed his estranged wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, as the executor of his estate and left her with all his "personal and household effects," including cars and frequent flier miles, to use "in accordance with what (she) believes to have been my wishes." Bourdain reportedly had a mortgage worth $1.1 million for an unspecified property. 

    The court will choose a guardian for Bourdain's daughter to "safeguard" her inheritance, per the Daily News, which also reported that if Ariane had died before Bourdain, her nanny, Myra Quizon, would have received the money initially intended for his daughter. 

     

     

  6. I have a bunch of Wyndham reward points that are going to expire on me so I booked four nights over Thanksgiving weekend in New Orleans.  I chose NO because we can drive from Austin instead of flying.  In other words I'm Dutch.  I just realized that that weekend is The Bayou Classic - Grambling State and Southern University.  We just wanted to chill, eat some good food, and go to the WWII museum.  I spent a weekend in the French Quarter during the Essence Festive in the 90's so this type of event isn't going to keep me away necessarily.   But back then I was young, high, and very drunk - which is a great way to go through life.  Now I'm old, sober, and with my wife.  Should we reconsider?  

    If we reconsider, do any of you have a suggestion for a nice Wyndham property within driving distance of Austin?  We' would consider San Antonio Riverwalk but we've done that so many times. 

  7. I have a buddy that was a Navy JAG officer that volunteered for two tours of duty in Dessert Storm.   He always joked that he was in it for the  lifetime $2 bourbon and cokes at the local VFW. 

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