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This is accurate. If you eat a piece of beef and a piece of moose side by side, cooked the same way, the moose will taste like it has sugar on it.

Can you deduct the cost of your vehicle/gas in your taxes?

Depending on the sprinkler setup, this is totally believable. In some buildings, setting off a sprinkler will only set off some sprinklers in a certain vicinity, but in many cases, it'll trigger a massive number of sprinklers. Idea is, if the building is on fire, they should at least stop the fire from spreading by making everything wet and cool, and at best, stopping the fire altogether. But basically, everything the sprinkler gets wet is ruined. Drywall, carpets, mattresses, furniture, electronics, the whole shebang. If the building is on fire, it doesn't matter because the fire would ahve destroyed everything anyhow. If the building isn't on fire....can add up really quickly.

What was the cats' favorite thing to eat? Did you ever let them hunt something live, or was everything long dead by the time they got to it?

I grew up in Ohio and spent summers working at a campground where we had horses. One day after work the owner asked me to run to our Farrier's house to see if he could come shoe our horses the next day. He's Amish. I hopped in my truck and drove out to his house, he and his family were in the middle of dinner and he invited me in. They shuffled around the table and made a space for me and we had dinner and conversation. After dinner we went outside and I tossed the baseball around with the kids and for the rest of the summer whenever they came out to the camp they came with a special something for me, a baked good or a carving or something. I felt a kinship with that family. Years later I ran into them and they remembered me and I asked if he was still showing horses as I knew some locals who needed a farrier and of course he was, so I connected them. Although I'm 100% sure we would have disagreed on many things, there were parts of Amish religion and culture I respected; humility and forguveness we're things I found preached but not practiced in the christian church I was raised.

Is there any part of Amish culture or religion that you carry with you still as a positive despite the obvious issues the culture has?